History 65 Course Schedule

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Section One: The Cauldron of Reform

  1. Populism

    2. Kazin, The Populist Persuasion, pp. 9-48.

    *Hofstadter, The Age of Reform

     

  2. Progressivism

    3. *Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings

    Kazin, Populist Persuasion, pp. 49-78.

     

  3. The Political Debate

    4. *Cooper, The Warrior and the Priest

     

  4. Wilson as a Domestic Reformer

    5. *Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism

    *Keller, Regulating a New Economy

     

  5. Wilsonianism

    6. Knock, To End All Wars, pp. 48-147.

     

     

    Section Two: Reform and the American State

  6. Reaction to Reform?

    7. Kazin, Populist Persuasion, pp. 79-109.

    *Keller, Regulating a New Economy

     

  7. New Deal Liberalism

    8. Brinkley, The End of Reform, pp. 15-105.

    *Hofstadter, The Age of Reform.

     

  8. World War II and American Liberalism

    9. Brinkley, The End of Reform, pp. 106-226.

     

  9. Internationalism

    10. *Culver, American Dreamer

    *Smith, America’s Mission

     

     

    Section Three: The Postwar Environment

  10. The Election of 1948 and Competing Brands of Liberalism

    11. *Culver, American Dreamer.

    *Gillon, Politics and Reform.

     

  11. Civil Rights in the 1950s

    12. *Irons, A People's History of the Supreme Court

    *Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights

    *Mann, To the Walls of Jericho

     

  12. Kennedy and Reformism

    13. Graham, The Presidency and Civil Rights, pp. 25-63.

    *Collins, "Growth Liberalism"

     

  13. Kennedy and the World

    14. *Rabe, The Most Dangerous Area in the World

    *Smith, America’s Mission

     

  14. Rediscovering Poverty

    15. *Collins, "Growth Liberalism."

    LBJ Transcripts

     

  15. Civil Rights and the 1964 Election

    16. Graham, The Presidency and Civil Rights, pp. 67-86.

    LBJ Civil Rights Transcripts

     

  16. The Warren Court and Legal Liberalism

*Branch, Pillars of Fire

**"American Liberalism and the Warren Court’s Legacy."

 

 

Section Four: The Decline of Liberal Reformers

    17. The Anti-War Movement

            Dionne, Why Americans Hate Politics, pp. 31-54.

            *Wells, The War Within

 

    18. Reaction to Reform

            Kazin, The Populist Persuasion, pp. 221-244.

            *Brennan, Turning Right

 

       19. The Revival of Reform?

            Graham Civil Rights and the Presidency, pp. 117-131, 170-203.

            *Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality

    20. Watergate and Reform Impulses

            Dionne, Why Americans Hate Politics, pp. 116-144, 200-205.

            *Kutler, The Wars of Watergate.

    21. Human Rights Diplomacy

        *Schoultz, Human Rights and U.S. Policy toward Latin America.

        **"The Clark Amendment."

     

     

    Section Five: Beyond the Cold War
  1. Conservatism and the New Reform Wave

    2. Dionne, Why Americans Hate Politics, pp. 209-282.

    Kazin, The Populist Persuasion, pp. 245-268.

     

    23 Thomas-Hill hearings

        Testimony, Senate Judiciary Committee

        The press and the hearings

        An overview with commentary (please read all three commentaries)

        Molly Ivins on the affair

     

  2. Clinton, Gingrich, Perot
The rise and fall of the Clinton health care plan
The Contract with America
The Perot agenda
A new populism?
The campaign finance reform movement
Was there a conservative reform agenda?

     

  1. Reform in the Modern Context
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