| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11:45am- | MWF | Rich Building 108 | Fraser Harbutt. | HSC. | 4 | 13069 | TBA. |
Content: Our charge here, naturally, is to acquire a grasp both of the main events and issues of the period and of what historians and others have said about it. The deeper challenge will be to break through the crust of an illusory familiarity and confront some of the tantalizing paradoxes of modern American history: a mass democracy with a nervous elite that is highly resistant to change; a conservative society agitated by a provocative media and a radical popular culture; a military behemoth that has difficulty working its will in a revolutionary world; a muscular economy that is subject to destabilizing convulsions; and a rhetorical commitment to individualism, but a powerful tendency to conformity.
Probable texts will include: R. Griffiths & P. Baker, ed., Major Problems in American History Since 1945; J. Baughman, The Republic of Mass Culture; D. Burner, Making Peace with the Sixties; K. Phillips, American Theocracy; N. Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire; L. Freedman, The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy; W. Chafe, The Unfinished Journey
Particulars: Midterm: 30%; Final: 60%; Class: 10%
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