notes and questions (Anthony)
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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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) |