Lecture Schedule
Fall 2001
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Week One:
September 10 Introduction to course: terms, arguments, strategies
September 13 Film, "Conspiracies" (A&EOctober 26, 1997)
Week Two:
September 17 "Of Cowpunchers, Clint Eastwood, and Monomyths"
Readings:
David B. Davis, ed., "Introduction" and "Some Themes of Countersubversion" from The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present (1970) reserveRichard Hofstadter, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" (1965) in Davis, ed., Fear of Conspiracy reserve
Leo Ribuffo, "The Complexity of American History" (1992) reserve
Michael Kelly, "The Road to Paranoia" (1995) reserve
Lewis Lapham, "Seen But Not Heard: The Message of the Oklahoma Bombing" (1995) reserve
Ron Rosenbaum, "Staring into the Heart of the Heart of Darkness: (1995) reserve
Gore Vidal, "The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh" (2001)
James William Gibson, Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America (1994)
David H. Bennett, The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History, prologue and part I.
Allen M. Brandt, No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 (rev. ed., 1987), pp. 3-51
Geoffrey S. Smith, "Nativism," in Alexander DeConde, ed., Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy (1978), Vol. II, 651-667 (reference and reserve)
John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (1985), pp. 3-34 reserve
Week Three: September 24 Immigration, the IWW, and Industrial America
September 27 World War I, Red Scare, and Civil Liberties
Readings:
Davis, ed., Fear of Conspiracy, pp. 149-227
Higham, Strangers in the Land, pp. 68-263
Bennett, Party of Fear, pp. 183-187
Randolph S. Bourne, "The State" (1919) reserve
Stanley Coben, "The American Red Scare of 1919-1920" (1964) reserve
Paul L. Murphy, World War I and the Origin of Civil Liberties in the United States (1979)
Weeks Four and Five: October 1/4 Interpreting the "Roaring Twenties"
October 11 Revisiting the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
Readings:
Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995)
Bennett, Party of Fear, pp. 187-237
Paul L. Murphy, "Sources and Nature of Intolerance in the 1920s" (1964) reserve
Higham, Strangers in the Land, pp. 264-330 reserve
Davis, ed., Fear of Conspiracy, pp. 228-249 reserve
Week Six: October 15 -- The Culture of the Great Depression
October 18 -- Demagogues in the Depression
Week Seven: October 22 -- The Tragedy of Charles A. Lindbergh
October 25 -- Pearl Harbor & the Japanese Americans
Readings:
Geoffrey S. Smith, To Save a Nation: American "Extremism," the New Deal, and the Coming of World War II (1992)
Davis, ed., Fear of Conspiracy, pp. 249-251, 263-289
Bennett, Party of Fear, pp. 238-266
John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War (1986) reserve
Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H.L. Kitano, eds., Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress (1991) reserve
Roger Daniels, Concentration Camps in North America (1981) reserve
Geoffrey S. Smith, "Doing Justice: Relocation and Equity in Public Policy" (1984) reserve
Week Eight: October 29 -- Anti-Communism and Joe McCarthy
November 1 -- The National Insecurity Stateof the 1950s
Readings:
Robert J. Bresler, Us vs. Them: American Political and Cultural Conflict from WWII to Watergate(2000), pp. 3-184
Geoffrey S. Smith, "National Security and Personal Isolation: Sex, Gender, and Disease in the Cold-War United States" (1992) -- reserve
-----------------, "Interrogating Security: A Life Story in History, 1941-1954" (1998) reserve
Bennett, Party of Fear, pp. 286-315
Brandt, No Magic Bullet, pp. 161-182
Davis, ed., Fear of Conspiracy, pp. 289-315
Week Nine: November 8 -- The Unraveling of American Liberalism
**November 11 -- From Civil Rights to Black Power**
NB: Midterm Essays due at beginning of class today
Readings:
Bresler, Us vs. Them, pp. 185-248
Melvin Small and William D. Hoover, eds., Give Peace a Chance: Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement (1992) reserve
Davis, ed., Fear of Conspiracy, pp. 315-362
Sharon Rudy Plaxton, "Emasculating the Antiwar Warrior" (1995) reserve
Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (rev. ed., 1993) -- reserve
Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines, "Takin' It to the Streets": A Sixties Reader (1995) -- reserve
David J. Garrow, The FBI and Martin Luther King (1981) -- reserve
Week Ten: November 12 Feminism and Gay/Lesbian Liberation
November 15 -- Film, "Berkeley in the 1960s"
Readings:
Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Womens Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (1980)
Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 (1989) -- reserve
Bresler, Us vs. Them, pp. 249-52
Week Eleven: November 19 -- Vietnam, Imperial Presidency, Watergate
November 22 -- The Kennedy Assassination
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Readings:
Bresler, Us vs. Them, pp. 253-262
Davis, ed., Fears of Conspiracy, pp. 315-362 reserve
Bennett, Party of Fear, pp. 315-344
Smith, To Save a Nation, epilogue
Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (1975) reserve
Gordon Liddy, "A Patriot Speaks" (1975) reserve
Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (1990) reserve
Week Twelve: November 26 -- Reagans America and Culture Wars
November 29 The Culture of Fear
Readings:
Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things (1999)
Tom Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (1999) -- reserve
Gibson, Warrior Dreams, passim.
Smith, To Save a Nation, epilogue
FINAL EXAMINATION *** SEE SCHEDULE HERE
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