History 65: April and May classes

April 4: The First Gulf War (SUBMIT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY--one page, key arguments and sources for your paper)

• Chronology; map
  Oral histories (US): Brent Scowcroft; Dick Cheney; James Baker
  Oral histories (international): Margaret Thatcher; Mikhail Gorbachev
  Oral histories (analysts): Rick Atkinson; General Bernard Trainor
  Powell Doctrine (1992)

April 6: No class--National Book Week talk

April 11: New Domestic and International Orders: Yugoslavia, Clinton

• House Bank scandal (1991-2)
  Tom Luce, "Perot '92"
  The Perot vote
  1992 campaign commercials:
                  Bill Clinton agenda;
                  George H.W. Bush agenda;
                  Bush attacks on taxes;
                  Clinton responds;
                  Ross Perot agenda
                           If you have trouble viewing these, download Real Player 8 (click on "free download")
  Balkan timeline (1991-1994)

April 13, 18, and 20: No class--spring break

April 25: The Path to 1994

• 1992 campaign commercials:
                  Bill Clinton agenda;
                  George H.W. Bush agenda;
                  Bush attacks on taxes;
                  Clinton responds;
                  Ross Perot agenda
                  The bizarre debate performance of Perot running-mate James Stockdale
                           If you have trouble viewing these, download Real Player 8 (click on "free download")
  Whitewater Timeline
  Clinton health care plan timeline
  Contract with America
  Curtis Gans, "1994 Congressional Elections"
  PBS analysis, 1994 elections
  1994 election outcomes
   

April 27: The United States and a New Economic Order: QUIZ

• Friedman, The World Is Flat, pp. 48-71, 103-113, 225-249.
  Contract with America
  Curtis Gans, "1994 Congressional Elections"
  PBS analysis, 1994 elections
  1994 election outcomes
  NAFTA
  Public Citizen critiques NAFTA
  UN Kosovo Resolution (1998)

May 2: The Clinton Impeachment

• Bob Woodward of the Washington Post summarizes events: Parts 1, 2, 3
  The Starr Report: executive summary; table of contents
  Bill McCollum and Barney Frank question Ken Starr before the House Judiciary Committee
  Articles of Impeachment, House of Representatives
  Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde delivers the closing argument for House prosecutors (video)
  Maureen Dowd mocks impeachment; Slate's William Saletan analyzes Lewinsky's testimony

May 4: The Election of 2000

• Events Timeline
  Election Map
  Florida country map of vote
  Bush v. Gore (majority opinion; Rehnquist concurrence; Stevens and Ginsburg dissents)

May 9: 9/11

Add-on: Vicky found a link to some of the impeachment testimony. The critical item is the third excerpt in Lewinsky (Congressman Bryant is asking the questions). A central assertion of the obstruction of justice claim was that Lewinsky filed her false deposition in the Jones case (that she had no affair with the President) to serve the President's interests, and that she didn't believe that filing the false deposition served her own interests. Lewinsky's response proves the old adage that lawyers should not ask witnesses questions to which the lawyer himself doesn't know the answer.

• Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States:
  Executive Summary
  Chapter One
  Chapter Four

May 11: Cultural Politics

• Slate's Saletan and The Nation's Katrina Pollitt debate abortion politics
• Lawrence v. Texas (2003): majority opinion (Kennedy); dissent (Scalia)
• Kitzmiller v. Dover (intelligent design; read pp. 18-35, 136-139)

May 16: US in the Contemporary World

• Friedman, The World Is Flat, pp.