Course Schedule (subject to addition, subtraction, modification….)
Week One:
Wednesday, Sept. 8: Course Introduction
Week Two: Roosevelt
Monday, Sept. 13: Presenting Roosevelt
· Patrick Maney, The Roosevelt Presence; Intro; Ch. 4-7, 10
Wednesday, Sept. 15: Contending Images of FDR
· Richard Hofstadter, “Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Patrician as
Opportunist,” from The American Political Tradition, p.
410-459
· Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The Age of Roosevelt: The Coming of the
New Deal, Ch. 32
Week Three: Social Change
Monday, Sept. 20
· Harvard Sitkoff, A New Deal for Blacks; Ch. 2, 3, 7, 9, 12,
Conclusion.
Wednesday, Sept. 22
· Winifred Wandersee, “A New Deal for Women: Government Programs,
1933-1940,” in Cohen, ed., The Roosevelt New Deal, p.
185-197.
· Gwendolyn Mink, “Maternalism in the New Deal Welfare State”
Week Four: Revolutions
Monday, Sept. 27: Birth of Big Government?
· Alan Brinkley, “The New Deal and the Ideal of the State,”
in The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, p. 85-121.
· Ellis Hawley, “The New Deal State and the Anti-Bureaucratic Tradition,”
in The New Deal and Its Legacy: Critique and Reappraisal, p.
77-92.
Wednesday, Sept. 29: Constitutional Revolution?
· William Leuchtenberg, The Supreme Court Reborn, Ch. 8, “The
Constitutional Revolution of 1937”
· Court-packing cartoons
Week Five: Impact
Monday, Oct. 4: The New Deal for Children
· Robert Cohen, Dear Mrs. Roosevelt, Introduction and Epilogue,
choose 2 chapters.
Wednesday, Oct. 6: Revolutionary or Conservative?
· Carl Degler, Out of Our Past, Ch. 13, “The Third American Revolution”
· Barton Bernstein, “The New Deal: The Conservative Achievements
of Liberal Reform,” from Towards a New Past, p. 263-288.
· Robert McElvaine, The Great Depression, Ch. 11, p. 250-263.
Friday, Oct. 8: Midterm paper due
Week Six: What did he know?
Monday, Oct. 11: Pearl Harbor
· Robert Theobald, The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor, Author’s
Introduction, Ch. 1, 13.
· Roberta Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision,
Ch. 7.
Wednesday, Oct. 13: The Holocaust
· Henry Feingold, Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded
to the Holocaust, Ch. 8, 9 (p. 169-201).
· David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews, Afterword (p. 341-353)
· Robert Abzug, America Views the Holocaust, “Epilogue:
The Changing Historical Perspective” (p. 207-213).
Week Seven: The Good War?
Monday, Oct. 18
· Michael C. C. Adams, The Best War Ever: America and World War
Two
Wednesday, Oct. 20
· Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation, selections on reserve
Week Eight: Social Transformation
Monday, Oct. 25: Rosie the Riveter
On-line Oral histories
· D’Ann Campbell, Women at War With America: Private Lives
in a Patriotic Era; ch. 8, “The War and Beyond,” p. 213-238.
· William Chafe, The Paradox of Change, Ch. 7 (p. 121-153)
· Sherna Gluck, Rosie the Riveter Revisited; Ch. 12, “What
Did it All Mean?” (p. 259-270)
Wednesday, Oct. 27: Continuity or Change
· Allan Winkler, Home Front U.S.A., Ch. 1
· John Jeffries, Wartime America, Ch. 1, 3
Week Nine: Civil Rights
Monday, Nov. 1
· Assignment from Japanese relocation camp and assembly center newspapers,
Schaeffer Library.
Wednesday, Nov. 3
· Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment
of Japanese Americans; Intro, Ch. 2-4, 7.
Week Ten: Atomic Bombing
Monday, Nov. 8
· J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction, entire
Wednesday, Nov. 10: FDR Museum Field Trip
Week 11:
Monday, Nov. 15: Exhibiting the Enola Gay?
Material from History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for
the American Past
Final paper due Monday, Nov. 22
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