COURSE PROCEDURES:

1. Attendance: Ten percent of your final grade is based on class participation, including attendance. If you miss three classes you will receive a zero in five percent of your final grade; if you miss four or more classes you will receive a zero in ten percent. Entering class late is disruptive. Every two late arrivals will be counted as one absence.

2. Testing: We will have three scheduled quizzes and a Final Exam. In general, each is made up of "Identification" and "Essay" questions. The material being tested will come from the CLASS LECTURES and the ASSIGNED READINGS. Do not miss taking a scheduled quiz. Make-ups are possible, but will be more difficult than the missed quiz. A request to make up a quiz must be made before or immediately after the scheduled quiz.

3. Written work: Choose to do either three book reports and a short (8-10 pages) research paper (Option "a"), OR five book reports (Option "b"). These reports and papers should be typed and proofread carefully. A carelessly written paper will be penalized at least one grade level.  A plagiarized paper will, at minimum, receive an "F." If you are doing a research paper, please refer to the "Guidelines" on the History Dept. Home Page at <http://www.loyno.edu/~history/research.htm>

NB: A book report consists of a summary of the book, a critique of the thesis, and a commentary on the book's merits.

4. Grading: A=92-100; B=80 - 91; C=70 - 79; D=60 - 69; F=0 - 59
 

REQUIRED TEXTS

1. Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1996, 8th ed.
2. Wm. Chafe, Harvard Sitkoff, eds., A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America, 5th ed.
 
 

 

JAN.    13		Introduction
18		World War II
20		The Grand Alliance
25		The Home Front
27		Harry S. Truman					report (b)
FEB.    01		Postwar America		LF 29	C/S 31		report (a)
03		Truman Domestic Policy	QUIZ
08		The Cold War		LF 98
10		The Korean War
15		McCarthyism	tape-"See It Now"		C/S 67		report (b)
17		Eisenhower		LF 145
22		Ike's Foreign Policy					report (a)
24		Growing Affluence		LF 194	C/S 107
29		Civil Rights Movements	QUIZ
MAR.  02		High/Mass Culture					report (b)
14		JFK			C/S 138
16		New Frontiers
21		Foreign Affairs			C/S 193
23		Vietnam	tape on Vietnam War				report (a)
28		Cuban Crisis		LF 237			report (b)
30		LBJ	QUIZ		C/S 255
APR.   04		The Great Society
06		The Counter-Culture	tape-"The Sixties"		C/S 312
11		Southeast Asia	tape-"1968"	LF 260
13		Domestic Turmoil			C/S 359		report (b)
18		RMN
25		GFR/JEC		LF end	C/S 410		research paper
27		RR/GB
MAY   02		BC			C/S 478

 
 

Monday, May 8

FINAL EXAM

9:00-11:00

BRING BLUEBOOK(S)

 
 
 
 
 

AVAILABLE IN BOOKSTORE:
 

#	John Morton Blum, V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II (1976)	05 copies
	Gaddis Smith, American Diplomacy During the Second World War, 1941-45, 2nd ed. (1985)	05 copies
	George C. Herring, America's Longest War, The U.S. & Vietnam, 1950-1975, 3rd ed. (1996)	10 copies
	Marilyn B. Youngs, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 (1991)	05 copies
	Stephen F. Lawson, Running for Freedom (1991)	10 copies
	Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1947)	05 copies
	Malcolm X with Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)	10 copies
#	William O'Neill, Coming Apart (1971)	10 copies
	Susan M. Hartmann, From Margin to Mainstream: American Women & Politics Since 1960 (1989)	10 copies
#	Peter Carroll, It Seemed Like Nothing Happened (1982)	10 copies

 

IN LIBRARY (on RESERVE:  R)
 

	Lary May, ed., Recasting America; Culture and Politics in the Age of the Cold War (1989)
	H.W. Brands, The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War (1993)
#	John Patrick Diggins, The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960 (1988)	R
	William S. Graebner, The Age of Doubt: American Thought & Culture in the 1940s (1990)
	Richard R. Lingeman, Don't You Know There's a War On? (1970)
	Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988)
	James B. Gilbert, A Cycle of Outrage: Juvenile Delinquency and the Mass Media in the 1950s (1986)
	Victor Navasky, Naming Names (1980)	R
	Richard M. Fried, Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective (1990)
	Loren Baritz, Backfire: American Culture and the Vietnam War (1985)	R
	Robert D. Schulzinger, A Time for War; The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (1997)
	James William Gibson, The Perfect War (1986)
	William Shawcross, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia (1979)
	Robert Palmer, Rock & Roll: An Unruly History (1995)
	Carl Belz, The Story of Rock (1972)
	Nicholas Lehmann, The Promised Land (1991)
	Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against (1968)
#	Terry H. Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties (1995)	R
#	Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (1987)	R
#	Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America (1984)	R
#	Joseph Conlin, The Troubles:A Jaundiced Glance Back at the Movement of the 60’s (1982)	R
	Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Mvmt. & NewLeft (1979)	R
	Norman Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1969)
	Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (1988)
	Paul Gottfried & Thos. Fleming, The Conservative Movement (1988)
#	Doris K. Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt (1995)
	Alonzo L. Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995)
	Robert F. Burk, Dwight D. Eisenhower: Hero & Politician (1986)
	Herbert S. Parmet, JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy (1983)
#	Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 (1998)
	Paul Conkin, Big Daddy from the Pedernales, LBJ (1986)
	Gary Wills, Nixon Agonistes (1979)
	J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (1988)
	John Dean, Blind Ambition (1976)
	Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward, All the President's Men (1974)	R
	Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate (1990)
	Garry Wills, Reagan's America (1988)
	J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1986)

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