Hist 301: The History of American Presidential Campaigning Syllabus

HIST 301: THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNING

Fall 2008
MW(F) 12:35-1:25
Professor Gil Troy
Office: Leacock 628
email: gtroy@videotron.ca
Phone: 398-3898

Each presidential election season triggers yet another round of complaints about the campaign and the candidates. The campaigns do not test presidential qualifications adequately; none of the candi¬dates are good enough. The campaigns are too long; the candidates, too superficial. The campaigns are undigni¬fied; the candidates, demagogic. The campaigns are expensive; the candidates too financially needy. Candidates are too involved; the people, too apathetic. Solutions to the “problem” of the presidential campaign around: clustering primaries, limiting PACs, compressing the campaign season, restricting donations, restraining the media.

Many of these laments assume that modern Americans have somehow strayed from an earlier, idyllic path. Once upon a time, when parties were strong and television was not even a twinkle in Marconi’s eye, elections were more substantive, candidates were more impressive, the nation was more virtuous. Democracy seems to have worked then. Now, alas, it barely functions. American politics was once grand, the conventional wisdom goes; now, it is tawdry. In fact, since the first contested election in 1796, when partisans of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams clashed, many have considered presiden¬tial campaigns excessively partisan, unduly disruptive, and undignified. Without an appreciation of these traditional concerns, the “problems” of the modern campaign cannot be fathomed.

This course will consider the continuing problem of the presidential campaign. How has the presidential campaign changed over the last two centuries? How has it remained the same? What do these continuities and discontinuities show about American history, in general, and American democracy, in particular?

The course will be divided into three sections. First, we will consider the origins of the presidential campaign. Next, we will examine the presidential campaign during the golden age of partisan politics, from the 1850s through the 1940s. During this time, the candidates became more active and the people became more involved. But the dissatisfaction with the campaign festered. The concluding section, “The Making and Selling of the President,” compares the modern campaign with its predecessors.

This course will combine lectures and discussions. Students MUST come to class prepared to discuss the assigned readings, particularly the primary sources. Note that the most important documents are italicized in the syllabus.

Website
In addition to using the WebCt for updates on information, the supplemental reading will be available on the course Website, noted “in Readings” on the syllabus. The Website is:
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/history/faculty/TROYWEB/Courseweb/hist301index.htm

NOTE:The ads since 1952 shown in class can be seen at http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/index.php

FOR ELECTORAL MAPS SEE:
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_browse_maps.htm

FOR OVERVIEWS OF EACH CAMPAIGN SEE:
http://www.multied.com/elections/

Conferences, Assignments, and Grading
There will be weekly reading assignments and confer¬ences will meet regularly throughout the semester. Participation in the conferences and during the lectures will account for 10 percent of your grade. A final exam for all will account for 30 percent of the grade. For the remaining 60%, three 5-6 page analytical papers on the various readings of the week will be due at the start of your conference the week of September 24th; the week of October 29th; the week of November 12 or November 26th. Early papers are most welcome. Late papers are not. You will be penalized. No papers will be accepted after Friday, November 28.
NOTE: Failure to submit three papers for three separate sections ON TIME or to complete the final will result in a “J.”

Plagiarism
All work submitted for this course must be original. Please refer to university and departmental guidelines, or consult the instructors if you are unsure how to proceed.

Office Hours
My office hours will be Monday, at 11:30 and by appointment.

Required Reading
(in order of use, all books available at the McGill Bookstore
Gil Troy, See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidates
Charles S. Sydnor, American Revolutionaries in the Making: Political Practices in Washington’s Virginia
Richard P. McCormick, The Presidential Game: The Origins of Presidential Politics
David Donald, Lincoln
Paul W. Glad, McKinley, Bryan, & the People
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President 1968
Brinkley, Polsby, and Sullivan, New Federalist Papers
Readings – distributed, on reserve or posted at
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/history/faculty/TROYWEB/Courseweb/hist301index.htm

Schedule of Topics and Readings
(* means this document will be discussed in class, so READ IT BEFOREHAND AND BRING IT TO CLASS!!!!)
Week 1: Wed., Sept. 3: #1: Introduction, Overview and Case Study: George W. Bush wins in 2000 and 2004: what went wrong — and what went right (and Right)?
CNN “How we got here: A timeline of the Florida recount,” Dec. 13, 2000
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/13/got.here/index.html

Gil Troy, “The Price of Playing it Cool,” from Poppolitics.com
http://www.poppolitics.com/articles/2000-12-24-public.shtml

Dershowitz v. Posner from Slate.com Dialogues, July 2 AND 3rd

Democracy in Action’s P2004: the 2004 Campaign – Sample at least 5 of the links at http://www.gwu.edu/~action/P2004.html
Troy, See How They Ran, “Prologue,” pp. 1-6.

Week 2: Mon., Sept. 8: #2: “Candidus”: The Traditional Campaign
*Cato’s Letters in Readings Especially #61-62
*Declaration of Independence
(http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html)
Troy, See How They Ran, Chapter One, pp. 7-19.
Charles S. Sydnor, American Revolutionaries in the Making:
Political Practices in Washington’s Virginia, pp. 1-118 (NOTE: The book is in the library under its original name Gentlemen Freeholders)

Wed. Sept. 10: #3: “A Bundle of Compro¬mises”: The Constitu¬tional Campaign
*The Constitution (especially Article II and Amendments 12,
13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, 25, 26) in Readings
The Federalist Nos. 49, 68 70, 71, 72 in Readings *(#68)

Week 3: Mon. Sept. 15: #4: George Washington and Republi¬can Virtue
SPOTLIGHT: 1788 “George Washington: Republican” in Readings.
*(esp. 110 Rules of Civility)
Richard P. McCormick, The Presidential Game, pp. 1-117
Wed., Sept. 17: #5: The Emergence of Parties
Charts, “Party Politics in America” see
http://www.edgate.com/elections/inactive/the_parties/

W.N. Chambers, “Party Development and the American Mainstream,” in Chambers, William Nisbet and Burnham, Walter Dean, eds. The American Party System: Stages of Development, pp. 3-32 on reserve.
SECTION #1: THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN (Troy, Sydnor)

Week 4: Monday Sept. 22: #6: Andrew Jackson and the Partisan Campaign SPOTLIGHT: 1828
*”The Debate on Extended Suffrage” [Kent v. Buel, 1821] in Readings.
Richard P. McCormick, The Presidential Game: The Origins of Presidential Politics, pp. 117-207.
Wed. Sept. 24: #7 Confusion Reigns: 1840 and 1844 SPOTLIGHT: 1840
Troy, See How They Ran, pp. 20-107
*Sources, 1840, 1844 in Readings (esp. Kane, Raleigh and Alabama Letters)
SECTION #2: THE PARTY CAMPAIGN (Troy, Sydnor and McCormick)
FIRST 5 PAGE ANALYTICAL PAPER DUE AT THE START OF YOUR CONFERENCE

Week 5: Mon., Sept. 29: MONDAY IS FRIDAY: CONFERENCES MEET
Wed., Oct. 1: VIDEO: Images of the Mass Campaign
Fri. Oct. 3: Make up Lecture:#9: Abraham Lincoln: America’s Greatest Politician?
Donald, Lincoln, pps. 1-161,

Week 6: Mon., Oct. 6: #10: Golden Age of Partisan Campaigning: Participation, SPOTLIGHT: 1860: *Sources, 1860, 1868 in Readings
Richard Jensen, “Armies, Ad-men and Crusaders: Types of Presidential Election Campaigns,” The History Teacher, 2
(1969): 33-50 in Readings
Wed., Oct. 8: #11 : SPOTLIGHT 1876: Education and Partisanship
*Plunkitt of Tammany Hall in Readings
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center on 1876
http://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/president/display.asp?id=511&subj=president

HarpWeek – -1876 controversy
http://elections.harpweek.com/controversy.htm

SECTION #3: THE GOLDEN AGE OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNING
Donald, Lincoln, pps. 162-270, 493-547

Week 7: Mon. Oct. 13: NO CLASS: HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Wed., Oct. 15: #12: SPOTLIGHT 1896: The Battle of the Standards
Paul Glad, McKinley, Bryan, & the People, pp. 1-36, 48-50, 95-141, 163-209.
*Primary Sources, 1892, 1896 in Readings
SECTION #4: 19th Century Campaign transformations

Week 8: Mon., Oct. 20: FRIDAY IS MONDAY CONFERENCES MEET
Wed., Oct. 22: VIDEO: The Kennedy-Nixon Debate
Primary Sources, 1904-1928 in Readings
Primary Sources, Theodore Roosevelt Campaigns in Readings…
Troy, See How They Ran, pp. 108-132
Fri. Oct. 24: MAKE UP LECTURE #13: The Power of the Press: The Brave New World of Twentieth Century Politics
SECTION #5: THE VANISHING VOTER, 1900-2000
Thomas Patterson, The Vanishing Voter [on HNN] in Readings
http://hnn.us/articles/printfriendly/1104.html

Robert Zaller, “Perversities in the Ideal of the Informed
Citzenry [1999]” http://www.mtsu.edu/~seig/pdf/pdf_zaller.pdf
Voter Turnout Charts in Readings …
Robert Putnam, “Bowling Alone,” Journal of Democracy 6:1, Jan
1995,pps.65-78 http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/journal_of_democracy/v006/putnam.html

Week 9: Mon., Oct. 27: #14: FDR and the Rise of Mass Culture
*Radio, 1924-1948 in Readings
Troy, See How They Ran, pp. 133-207
*Franklin Roosevelt Campaigns in Read¬ings
Wed., Oct. 29: #15: Richard Nixon and The Television Revolution: The Checkers Speech
McCormick, Presidential Game, pp. 207-238
SECTION #6: PERSONALITY AND PUBLICITY IN THE MODERN CAMPAIGN
Warren Susman, “‘Personality’ and the Making of Twentieth-Century Culture,” Chapter 14 in Warren Susman, Culture as History, pp. 271-285 on reserve.
Robert Westbrook, “Politics as Consumption,” Chapter V in Fox and Lears, The Culture of Consumption, pp. 145-173 on reserve.
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, pp. vii-82
SECOND 5 PAGE ANALYTICAL PAPER DUE AT THE START OF YOUR CONFERENCE

Week 10: Mon., Nov. 3: #16: The Television Revolution
Wed., Nov. 5: #17: The Selling of the President, 1960s
SECTION #7: DID TELEVISION RUIN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN?
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, pp. 83-163.
Lance Morrow, “Of Myth and Memory: Dreaming of 1960 in the New World,” Time, 24 Oct. 1988, pp. 21-27 in Readings, Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, pp. 3-11 on reserve

Week 11: Mon., Nov. 10: #18: The Modern Campaign: Primarily Overreported?
Troy, See How They Ran, Chapter 10, pp. 227-239.
Wed., Nov. 12: #19: Tricky Dick, Betty Ford and the Primal Scene of Presidential Politics
Primary Sources, 1976 in Readings
*The Character Question in Readings
Section #8: MAKING AND SELLING THE PRESIDENT, 1968, 1972
Joe McGinniss The Selling of the President 1968, all
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, pp. 5-12 on reserve [First option for submitting 3rd paper]

Week 12: Mon., Nov. 17: Clinton: The War Room;
Wed., Nov. 19: Video: Bush, Journeys With George
Brinkley, Polsby, Sullivan, et al., New Federalist Papers, all
Acceptance Speeches, 1980 in Readings
Gil Troy, “Money and Politics: the Oldest Connection,” Wilson Quarterly (Fall, 1997),
http://wwics.si.edu/OUTREACH/WQ/WQSELECT/TROY.HTM
Are Voters Fools? See Arthur B. Maas, Foreword to VO Key, Jr., The Responsible Electorate, vii-xv on reserve
Samuel Popkin, The Reasoning Voter, pp.7-13, on reserve.

Week 13: Mon., Nov. 24: #20: The Republican Juggernaut
Troy, See How They Ran, pp. 239-282.
Wed., Nov. 26: #21: The Presidency in the Age of the Popular Campaign
SECTION #9: THE MODERN CAMPAIGN IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
THIRD 5 PAGE ANALYTICAL PAPER DUE AT THE START OF YOUR CONFERENCE –No Papers Accepted After the End of this Week

Week 14: Mon., Dec. 1: #22: Republicanism and Liberal Democracy in the late 1980s and 1990s…
Tues., Dec. 2: TUESDAY IS MONDAY #23: Conclusions: The Presidential Campaign in a Changing — and Unchanging World

LECTURE SCHEDULE
Week 1: Wed., Sept. 3: #1: Introduction and Overview
Week 2: Mon., Sept. 8: #2: George Bush wins in 2000 and 2004: what went wrong — and what went Right and right?
Wed. Sept. 10: #3:”Candidus”: The Traditional Campaign

Week 3:Mon., Sept. 15: #4: “A Bundle of Compromises”: The Constitutional Campaign
Wed., Sept. 17: : #5: George Washington and Republican Virtue SPOTLIGHT: 1788

Week 4: Monday Sept. 22: #6: The Emergence of Parties
Wed. Sept. 24: #7: Andrew Jackson and the Partisan Campaign SPOTLIGHT: 1828

Week 5: Mon., Sept. 29 VIDEO: Images of the Mass Campaign
Wed., Oct. 1: #8: Confusion Reigns: 1840 and 1844 SPOTLIGHT: 1840

Week 6: Mon., Oct. 6: #9: Abraham Lincoln: America’s Greatest Politician?
Wed., Oct. 8: #10: Golden Age of Campaigning. SPOTLIGHT: 1860

Week 7: Tue., Oct. 14: #11 SPOTLIGHT 1876: Education and Partisanship
Wed., Oct. 15: #12: SPOTLIGHT 1896: The Battle of the Standards

Week 8: Mon., Oct. 20: VIDEO: The Kennedy-Nixon Debates
Wed., Oct. 22: #13: The Power of the Press and The Brave New World of Twentieth
Century Politics

Week 9: Mon., Oct. 27: #14: FDR and the Rise of Mass Culture
Wed., Oct. 29: #15: Richard Nixon and The Television Revolution: The Checkers Speech

Week 10: Mon., Nov. 3: #16: The Television Revolution
Wed., Nov. 5: #17: The Selling of the President, 1960s

Week 11: Mon., Nov. 10: #18: The Modern Campaign: Primarily Overreported?
Wed., Nov. 12: #19: Tricky Dick, Betty Ford and the Primal Scene of Presidential Politics

Week 12: Mon., Nov. 17: : #20: The Republican Juggernaut
Wed., Nov. 19: #21: The Presidency in the Age of the Popular Campaign

Week 13: Mon. Nov. 24: #22: Republicanism and Liberal Democracy in the late 1980s and 1990s…
Wed. Nov. 26: Video: Clinton: The War Room; Bush: Journeys With George
Week 14: Mon., Dec. 1 #23: Conclusions: The Presidential Campaign in a Changing — and Unchanging World

Hist 221: Conference Questions & Instructions

To: History 221B
From: Gil Troy
Re: Sections and Readings

The sections are designed to help you make sense out of the mass of reading and lecture information you receive each week. The challenge for any historian is to learn how to assimilate large amounts of data and then make coherent patterns from them — what we call interpretations or arguments. To keep up with this course, it is essential that you keep up with the readings and that you take the time to make sense of them, to look at the big picture that emerges amid all the facts and anecdotes.

Just as the instructors and I take a few minutes before each section to collect our thoughts, so should you. To that end, the “admission ticket” for sections will be a short one-page essay based on the week’s reading. These assignments can either summarize the particular reading, or they can answer any of the major questions that emerge from the reading or the lectures that week. Alternatively, you can link one or two of the primary source readings in Thinking Through the Past to the broader themes addressed by the authors or in the lectures. Feel free to search out contradictions and alternative voices — you need not accept my interpretation of events.

These need not be works of art. Rather, think of them as works in progress, a series of memoranda to yourself that will help you digest all the material as the course moves along and could be useful when you study for the midterm and final.

What follows is a list of questions you could (but need not) answer for each week:
Week 1: RECONSTRUCTION: What did Reconstruction accomplish? What limited its accomplishments? What, if anything, was the secret to its success? the reason for its failure? How do you account for the different interpretations advanced over the years?

Week 2: A GILDED AGE? — Was the industrial revolution a blessing or a curse for the U.S.? Was there “distress” among the “laboring classes” at the time? (Are the Hollitz documents representative or distorted?) Were the “Robber Barons” knaves or heroes? Does the Gilded Age mark a continua¬tion of, or a dramatic break from, earlier American history?

Week 3: POPULISM: — Who were the populists? What did they accomplish? Was the Populist platform moderate or radical? Why was the Cross of Gold Speech so popular? Is Pollack or Hofstadter correct? Which interpretation do the primary sources support?

Week 4: PROGRESSIVISM: LEISURELY REVOLT? Is the Coney Island experience unique or is it representative of other, broader trends? How can a “bungalow” be “progressive.” Just how revolutionary was this twentieth-century culture that Kasson describes? Was Theodore Roosevelt a reaction to this new twentieth century culture? Was Progressivism? How?

Week 5: WOODROW WILSON: PROGRESSIVE WARRIOR: Who was the better Progressive Wilson or Roosevelt? Who was the better President? What was Progressiv¬ism? What did it accomplish? What is the relationship (if any) between Progressivism and Imperialism? Did Progressivism propel the U.S. into the Spanish-American War? Into the Great War? Was it wise for the U.S. to enter World War I? What was the effect of U.S. involvement in the war?

Week 6: Take a break from all this questioning!

Week 7: THE TWENTIES: Were the twenties as “roaring” as everyone claims? Do the twenties really mark the start of the modern twentieth-century American experience? Was the 1928 campaign a harbinger of future political change or an exceptional moment in history?

Week 8: THE GREAT DEPRESSION: What can you find that is particularly American in the response to the Great Depression depicted in Steinbeck’s book or in the other readings? How did the Great Depression transform the U.S.? Is there any linkage between the emergence of Eleanor Roosevelt as a force in her own right and the Depression?

Week 9: FDR IN PEACE AND WAR: What caused the Great Crash? What did the New Deal accomplish? Are you more struck by the continuities or the discontinuities between the Hoover and Roosevelt administra¬tions? What was the secret to FDR’s success?
Do the Detroit Race Riots force any kind of reexamination of what the New Deal accomplished?

Week 10: THE COLD WAR: Did World War II traumatize or liberate the U.S.? Was the Cold War avoidable? What impact did the Cold War have on American culture? Why?

Week 11: CIVIL RIGHTS: Why did the Civil Rights movement emerge when it did? Was it successful? Would there have been a Civil Rights movement without Dr. King? What effect, if any, did Otis Redding and other black entertainers have on race relations in the U.S.?

Hist 221: The United States Since 1865 Syllabus

HISTORY 221: THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1865

Fall 2008: MW(F) 1:35-2:25
Professor Gil Troy
Office: Leacock 628
E-mail: gtroy@videotron.ca
Telephone 398-3898
The Civil War united the American nation once and for all, but just what kind of nation it would be remained unclear. How would the U.S. balance individual rights and communal needs? the desire for liberty and the demands for equality? the call of progress and the appeal of the past? These are a few of the dilemmas History 221B will explore, as we survey a period that witnessed extra¬ordinary economic growth punctuated by dramatic cultural and politi¬cal crises.

Required Books Available for Purchase at the McGill Bookstore
*John Hollitz, Thinking Through the Past, volume II
*Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made it
*Sara M. Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America
*John Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century
*George F. Kennan, American Diplomacy, 1900-1950
*William Leuchtenberg, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932
*John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle
*Martin Luther King, Why We Can’t Wait
*David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise

Conferences, Assignments, and Grading
There will be weekly sections to discuss the readings and the lectures. Participation in the conference will consti¬tute 10 percent of the grade — the instructor of each conference will determine just how participation will be assessed. A take-home midterm due on Friday, October 10 will constitute 20 percent; a ten-page research paper due on Monday, November 10 will constitute 35 percent; and a final examination will consti¬tute the remaining 35 percent of the grade. Late papers will be penalized. Failure to submit the paper or write either of the exams will warrant a “J” grade.

Office Hours
The instructors will announce their office hours once sections are finalized. My office hours are tentatively scheduled for Monday at 11:30 and by appointment.

Plagiarism
McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see http://www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information).

Internet Use in Research
We will discuss this further in class, but students are not prohibited from using Internet sources – however, students are warned to assess the credibility and authority of sources on the Internet judiciously, intelligently – as elsewhere. And copying from the Internet – or from books – without attribution and without your own contribution – is never acceptable.

Schedule of Topics and Readings
Week 1: Wed. Sep. 3: Introduction: The Stillness of Appomattox, The Revolution of Reconstruction?
RECONSTRUCTION (NO CONFERENCE THIS WEEK).
READING: Hollitz, Thinking… on Reconstruction, pp. 7-21.

Week 2: Mon. Sep. 8: 1876: Consensus and Conflict
Wed. Sep. 10: The Changing Face of America: The Boat
CONFERENCE I: A GILDED AGE?
Evans, Born for Liberty, pp. 1-6, 119-143
“The Spoilsmen: An Age of Cynicism,” Chapter VII in Hofstad¬ter, American Political Tradition, pp. 211-239
Hollitz, Thinking… on Industrialization, pp. 22-50, and Immigration, pp. 138-160.

Week 3: Mon. Sep. 15: Populism
Wed. Sep. 17: The Managerial Revolution
CONFERENCE II: POPULISM
“William Jennings Bryan: The Democrat as Revivalist,” in Chapter VIII in Hofstadter, American Political Tradition
Hollitz, Thinking… on “Saving” the Indians… pp. 51-78.
WEB CT SHOWDOWN: THE POPULISTS: Pollack, The Populist Response to Industrial America, pp. 1-24, (also on reserve) versus Hofstadter.

Week 4: Mon. Sep. 22: The Rise of the Leisure Class
Wed. Sep. 24: The Middle Class Revolt
CONFERENCE III: PROGRESSIVISM: LEISURELY REVOLT?
Kasson, Amusing the Million (all)
“Theodore Roosevelt: The Conservative as Progres¬sive,” Chapter IX in Hofstad¬ter, American Political Tradition,¬ pp. 265-305.
Hollitz, Thinking… on “The Bungalow,” pp. 111-136.
Evans, Born for Liberty, pp. 145-173

Week 5: Mon. Sep. 29: FRIDAY SCHEDULE – CONFERENCES MEET
Wed. Oct. 1: Frontiers West and East
Fri. Oct. 3: MAKEUP LECTURE: Presidents as Supermen
CONFERENCE IV: WOODROW WILSON: PROGRESSIVE WARRIOR
“Woodrow Wilson: The Conservative as Liberal,” Chapter X in Hofstad¬ter, American Political Tradition, pp. 307-365.
Kennan, American Diplomacy, Chapters I and IV, pp. 3-20, 55-74.
Hollitz, Thinking… on Manhood and Philippines, 79-109
Week 6: Mon. Oct. 6: From Splendid Wars to World Wars
Wed. Oct. 8: The New World and those Left Behind — Flappers, Cynics, Exiles -– and Blacks, Farmers, Workers
*Fri. Oct. 10: TAKE HOME MIDTERM DUE NO CONFERENCES THIS WEEK

Week 7: Mon. Oct. 13: HAPPY THANKSGIVING! NO CLASS
Wed. Oct. 15: VIDEO: The Great Depression
CONFERENCE V: THE TWENTIES:
Leuchtenberg, Perils of Prosperity, pp. 1-10, 84-240
Evans, Born for Liberty, pp. 175-197

Week 8: Mon. Oct. 20: FRIDAY SCHEDULE – CONFERENCES MEET
Wed. Oct. 22: The Great Crash and the Revolution that Wasn’t
Fri. Oct. 24: MAKEUP LECTURE: Dr. New Deal
CONFERENCE VI: THE GREAT DEPRESSION
John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle (all)
Evans, Born for Liberty, pp. 197-219
Hollitz, Thinking… on Eleanor Roosevelt, pp. 161-187.

Week 9: Mon. Oct. 27: Dr. Win the War
Wed. Oct. 29: Truman, Eisenhower and the American Century
CONFERENCE VII: FDR IN PEACE AND WAR
Leuchtenberg, Perils of Prosperity, pp. 241-273
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, Chapters, XI and XII in Hofstad¬ter, American Political Tradi¬tion, pp. 367-456.
WEB CT SHOWDOWN: FDR: B. Bernstein, “The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform,” vs. A Defender of FDR
HINT: START READING: Brooks, Bobos in Paradise, pp. 9-53, 103-139

Week 10: Mon. Nov. 3: The Cold War
Wed. Nov. 5: The Supreme Court and the Conservative Revolution
CONFERENCE VIII: THE COLD WAR
Kennan, American Diplomacy, Chapter V, VI and Part II, pp. 74-154;
Evans, Born for Liberty, pp. 219-263.
Hollitz, Thinking… on the Cold War, pp. 213-237.

Week 11: Mon. Nov. 10: From Civil Rights to Black Power PAPER DUE
Wed. Nov. 12: Cracks in the Consensus
CONFERENCE IX: CIVIL RIGHTS
King, Why We Can’t Wait (all)
Steve Greenberg, “Otis Redding and the Integrationist Dream,” liner
notes, pp. 24-32 from “Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding,”
Four CD Set (New York: Rhino Records, 1993). (Handout/on WebCT)
Hollitz, Thinking… on Detroit Race Riot, 189-211, and on Civil Rights, 239-273.

Week 12: Mon. Nov. 17: From Women’s Liberation to Feminism: INTERACTIVE LECTURE
Wed. Nov. 19: Video: the 1960s
CONFERENCE X: THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NEW LEFT: THEN AND NOW
READING: Evans, Born for Liberty, pp. 263-314
Hollitz, Thinking… on Vietnam, pp. 280-304, on Feminism, pp. 300-334

Week 13: Mon. Nov. 24: Richard Nixon, Vietnam and the Loss of Innocence
Wed. Nov. 26: From Carter’s Malaise to Reagan’s Morning in America
CONFERENCE XI: Bobos in Paradise… the Whole Story or a Sideshow?
Brooks, Bobos in Paradise, pp. 54-102, pp. 140-273
Hollitz, on Multicultural Education, pp. 335-371
WEB CT SHOWDOWN: REAGAN: THUMBS UP OR DOWN?

Week 14: Mon. Dec. 1: Clinton’s Peace and Prosperity: Reality or Delusion?
Tues. Dec. 2: McGill MONDAY: FINALE: From Civil War to Uncivil Wars, From Reconstruction to Globalization…

NO CONFERENCES THIS WEEK