Winter Term Schedule Weeks Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteen (January 12, 19, 26): Cold War Culture and the McCarthy Era Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War (1991) Lary May, ed., Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War (1989) Ellen Schrecker, The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (1994) -- reserve Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988) -- reserve David Halberstam, The Fifties (1994) -- reserve Barbara Ehrenreich, The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment (1983) William Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff, eds., A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America (1991) 3rd ed., pp. 3-89 Polenberg, One Nation Divisible, pp. 164-207 -- reserve Geoffrey S. Smith, "National Security and Personal Isolation: Sex, Gender, and Disease in the Cold-War United States" (1992) -- reserve Weeks Sixteen and Seventeen (February 2, 9): Civil Rights and Black Power Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines, eds., "Takin' it to the Streets": A Sixties Reader (1995), pp. 3-58, 135-201 Chafe and Sitkoff, eds., Our Time, pp. 153-214 Arnold Rampersad, Jackie Robinson: A Biography (1997) -- reserve William Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom (1981) -- reserve Richard Weisbrodt, Freedom Bound: A History of America's Civil Rights Movement (1991) -- reserve David J. Garrow, The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. (1981) -- reserve William Van Deburg, New Day in Babylon: Black Power and American Culture, 1965-1975 (1992) -- reserve John Edgar Wideman, "Dead Black Men and Other Fallout from the American Dream" (1992) -- reserve bell hooks, "Counterhegemonic Art: The Right Thing" (1989) -- reserve Weeks Eighteen, Nineteen, and Twenty (February 16, March 1, 8): The 1960s: A Culture Coming Apart? Rick Perlman, "Who Owns the Sixties?" (1996) -- reserve Polenberg, One Nation Divisible, pp. 164-207 -- reserve Chafe and Sitkoff, eds., Our Time, pp. 285-412 Bloom and Breines, eds., "Takin' It to the Streets..." Melvin Small and William D. Hoover, eds., Give Peace a Chance: Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement (1992) -- reserve Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (rev. ed., 1993) -- reserve Lucinda Franks, "Return of the Fugitive" (1994) -- reserve Sharon Rudy Plaxton, "The Emasculation of the Antiwar Warrior" (1995) -- reserve Week Twenty-One (March 15): What's Happened to Sport Varda Burstyn, The Rites of Men, see week 3 Randy Roberts and James Olson, Winning is the Only Thing: Sports in America since 1945 (1989) -- reserve Film, Hoop Dreams (1994) Geoffrey S. Smith, "The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd?" (1996) -- reserve Darcy Frey, "The Last Shot" (1993) -- reserve Pat Jordan, "It's Not Ladylike to be a DWG" (1994) -- reserve David Halberstam, The Breaks of the Game (1983) -- reserve Weeks Twenty-two and Twenty-three (March 22, 29): Sex, Gender, and American Culture Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (1980), and see Franks' essay, week 18 Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (1997) Toni Morrison, Raceing Power, Engendering Justice (1991) Larry Colton, "Goat Brothers" (1993) -- reserve Lewis Lapham, "In the Garden of Tabloid Delight..." (1997) -- reserve James Atlas, "The Loose Canon" (1999) -- reserve Week Twenty-Four (April 5): Current Cultural Issues Richard Pells, Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture since World War II (1997) James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (1992) -- reserve Frances FitzGerald, Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures (1986) -- reserve Erik Larson, "The Story of a Gun" (1993) -- reserve Susman, Culture as History, pp. 271-90 Polenberg, One Nation Divisible, pp. 251-292

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