Topic: American Radicalism
| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8:30am-9:45am | TuTh | Tarbutton Hall 321 | Harvey Klehr. | HSC. | 4 | 13127 | TBA. |
Content: History, ideas and personalities of American radicalism, including utopianism, socialism, the Industrial Workers of the World, communism, and the New Left. American reactions to radicalism, including McCarthyism.
This course deals with various aspects of the radical tradition in America and reactions to it. Among the topics a groups to be covered are American socialism, the Communist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, the New Left, McCarthyism and anti-communism, the Hiss-Chambers case, etc. In addition to lectures and readings, there will be several films.
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