COURSE SCHEDULE

 

February 2: Introduction

February 9: Wilsonianism

    Thomas Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order

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notes and questions (Anthony)

February 18: Progressivism and Internationalism

    Daniel Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age

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notes and questions (Carla and Stacy)

February 23: lecture, Princeton Club

    1964 election

March 1: Good Neighbor Diplomacy

    Eric Paul Roorda, Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic

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notes and questions (Anthony and Dave)

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outside reading: Stanley Hilton, Brazil and the Great Powers (John)

March 8: Intelligence and the European Conflict

    Ernest May, Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France

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notes and questions (Stacy)

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outside reading: David Reynolds, Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance (Anthony)

March 15: The Pacific War

    Akira Iriye, Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945

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notes and questions (Mike and Casandra)

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outside reading: Julian Hurstfield, America and the French Nation (Carla)

March 22: Cuban Missile Crisis

    Ernest May and Philip Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis

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notes and questions (Dave and John)

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outside reading: Stephen Rabe, The Most Dangerous Area of the World (Mike)

March 29: Military History

    Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

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notes and questions (Jonathan and Anton)

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outside reading: John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War (Stacy)

April 5: No class--spring break

April 12: No class--spring break

April 19: Vietnam

    Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam

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notes and questions (Casandra and Rebecca)

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outside reading: Thomas Alan Schwartz, Lyndon Johnson and Europe (Dave)

April 26: The Sixties Internationally

    Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente

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notes and questions (Jonathan and Keith)

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outside reading: Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Rebecca)

May 3: Africa and the Cold War (John and Carla)

    Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976

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notes and questions

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outside reading: Lars Schoultz, Human Rights and US Policy toward Latin America (Casandra)

May 10: Star Wars

    Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War

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notes and questions (Mike and Anton)

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outside reading: Philip Zelikow and Condoleeza Rice, Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (Keith)

May 17: The Post-Cold War World

    Samantha Power, "A Problem from Hell": America in the Age of Genocide

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notes and questions (Rebecca and Keith)

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outside reading: Bob Woodward, Bush at War (Anton)