History 65
January and February classes

January 26: Introduction

January 31: Brown and Eisenhower Republicanism

• Branch, Parting the Waters, pp. 143-205.
  Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

February 2: Eisenhower and the World; QUIZ

• Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, pp. 125-196.
  Cold War timeline (1945-1953)
  NSC 162/2 (1953)
  Caracas Declaration (1954)
  CIA and Guatemala assassinations (official history)

February 7: LBJ and the 1950s Senate

• Branch, Parting the Waters, pp. 312-378.
  Key players in the 1950s Senate

February 9: Kennedy and Civil Rights

• Branch, Parting the Waters, pp. 451-491, 633-672, 756-802.
  Carter, The Politics of Rage, pp. 110-155.
  Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" speech, 1963, with audio
  Alistair Cooke, on the Kennedy inauguration

February 14: Kennedy and the World; QUIZ

• Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, pp. 197-234.
  Rusk-McNamara Report (excerpts), 1961
  Kennedy advisers discussing Vietnam, 1963
  NSAM 263 (1963)

February 16: LBJ and the 1964 Election

• Branch, Parting the Waters, pp. 846-887.
  Carter, The Politics of Rage, pp. 195-225.
  LBJ's "daisy ad" (this and the two clips below requires RealAudio; download for free)
  LBJ reaches out to GOP voters
  Ronald Reagan endorses Goldwater for President

February 21: No class--college conversion day

February 23: The Great Society, the 2nd Warren Court, and Competing Conceptions of Liberalism; QUIZ

• Carter, The Politics of Rage, pp. 226-293.
  Civil Rights Act (1964)
  Voting Rights Act, 1965
  Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

February 28: Vietnam and the Collapse of New Deal Liberalism

• Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, pp. 235-271.
  McGeorge Bundy, "Memorandum for the President," (excerpt), 1965
  LBJ Johns Hopkins address, 1965
  Robert McNamara, "Memorandum for the President," (summary), 1965
  Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska), Vietnam address, 1965