Fall Term Schedule Week One (September 15) Pick up course syllabus; introductory film, Berkeley in the 1960s Week Two (September 22): Thinking About Social and Cultural History Warren I. Susman, Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century, pp. xvii-49 Lawrence W. Levine, "Clio, Canons, and Culture" (1993) -- reserve Russell Schoch, "California Q & A: An Interview with Lawrence Levine" (1988) -- reserve Thomas Bender, "Making History Whole Again" (nd) -- reserve June Sochen, "On Writing Cultural History" (nd) -- reserve T.J. Jackson Lears, "The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities" (1985) -- reserve George Lipsitz, Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture (1990), pp. 3-36 -- reserve Geoffrey S. Smith, "Reflections on a Course..." (1984) -- reserve Thomas Schlereth, "Historians and Material Culture" (1985) -- reserve Lewis Lapham, "The Things We Hold in Common" (1992) -- reserve Allan Wolfe, "The Way We Are Now" (1991) -- reserve Michael T. Marsden, "Television Viewing as Ritual" (1980) -- reserve Week Three (September 29): Sports, Race, Gender, and Class -- At Queen's and Elsewhere Varda Burstyn, The Rites of Men: Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport (1999) Lucia Nixon, "Ritual and Power: The Anthropology of Homecoming at Queen's" (1987) -- reserve Bruce Kidd, "Sports and Masculinity" (1987) -- reserve Kristin Bell Smith, "Making Sport of Gender" (1995) -- reserve Geoffrey S. Smith, "Madonna's Children" (1992) -- reserve ----------------------, "We All Need Education on Race and Gender Issues at Queen's" (1993) -- reserve ----------------------, "O.J. Simpson: A Man for All Reasons" (1994) -- reserve Daniel L. Zins, "'Maybe the Coach Deserved Choking': Latrell Sprewell and the Politics of Violence in America" (1999) -- reserve "Columbine Massacre" [collection of articles] (1999) -- reserve *** continue reading Susman, Culture as History, pp. 53-97 Weeks Four and Five (October 6 & 13): Immigration, Labour, Progressivism Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991), pp. vii-viii, 1-171 Roger Daniels, Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 (1998) Allan M. Brandt, No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 (rev. ed., 1987) John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (1988) -- reserve Alan Kraut, The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 (1982) -- reserve National Archives, The Progressive Years, 1899-1917 -- in Prof. Smith's office Week Six (October 20): American Society and World War I Dawley, Struggles for Justice, pp. 172-253 David Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980) -- reserve Brandt, No Magic Bullet, pp. 52-121 National Archives, World War I: The Home Front -- in Prof. Smith's office Weeks Seven and Eight (October 27, November 3): The 1920s Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995) Susman, Culture as History, pp. 101-149 Dawley, Struggles for Justice, pp. 254-333 Lawrence Levine, "Progress and Nostalgia -- The 1920s: A Self-Image" -- reserve Herbert Asbury, "Hatrack" (1926) -- reserve National Archives, The 1920s -- in Prof. Smith's office Weeks Nine and Ten (November 10 & 17): The Great Depression Dawley, Struggles for Justice, pp. 334-417 Susman, Culture as History, pp. 150-270 Brandt, No Magic Bullet, pp. 122-160 Geoffrey S. Smith, To Save a Nation: American "Extremism," the New Deal, and the Coming of World War II (1992) Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (1983) -- reserve Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (1989) National Archives, The Great Depression and New Deal -- in Prof. Smith's office Weeks Eleven and Twelve (November 24, December 1): World War II and the Home Front William S. Graebner, The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s (1991) Richard Polenberg, One Nation Divisible: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S. since 1938 (1980), pp. 7-45 -- reserve National Archives, World War II -- in Prof. Smith's office John Morton Blum, V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II (1976) -- reserve John W. Jeffries, Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (1996) -- reserve Susan Hartmann, The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s (1982) -- reserve U.S. Congress, Report on the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Personal Justice Denied (1982) -- reserve Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H. L. Kitano, Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress (1986) -- reserve Geoffrey S. Smith, "Doing Justice: Relocation and Equity in Public Policy" (1984) -- reserve

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