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History 565
From the New Era to the New Frontier, 1921-1963
Credit hours: 5
GEC categories: Consult academic advisor
Prerequisites: Consult academic advisor
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Course Objectives: This advanced-level American history course This course aims to provide more intensive knowledge of American history between 1920 and 1963; to enhance sophistication in historical interpretation; and to encourage thoughtful verbal expression of ideas, clear and compelling writing, and careful reading.
Course Content: This course spans the middle of the twentieth century in the history of the United States. Economically, during these years the country's prosperity was shattered by the deep depression between 1929 and 1941. That trough in turn yielded to a long boom that created consumer abundance in the golden age of American capitalism. Politically, this period was the heyday of American Democratic Party liberalism, as a New Deal consensus was forged under Franklin Delano Roosevelt after 1932 and was renewed by the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960, despite strong conservative challenges in the form of McCarthyism. Internationally, these decades saw the United States rise to a position of global dominance during and after the Second World War, despite challenges from right-authoritarian expansionist regimes in the 1930s and from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Our exploration of these trends will be refracted through works of history that examine the interplay of gender, race, and class in historical development.
Method of Presentation: The course will be conducted as a seminar, meaning that lectures will be few and brief, if any. Instead, discussion of reading is the rub. We will aspire to judicious analysis of the assigned readings by charting their arguments, assessing their evidence, and evaluating their merit.
Method of Evaluation: Student performance will be weighed by attendance, participation, and four papers on the assigned texts.
