HIST 308: U.S. in the Age of the Cold War

Essential Course Documents

Syllabus

Revised Course Schedule Part II (post-Spring Break)

Grade Code

Writing Assignments

Response Papers

Civil Rights & Historical Empathy Paper

Research Paper

Final Exam Paper (Longview)

David Thelen, "Memory and American History"

Extra Credit Format

Additional Course Readings: 

Part II

Mar. 22

George Cotkin, "The Hate Stare"

Nicholas Peart, "Why Is the NYPD After Me?"

Apr. 11

Terry Anderson, "Counterculture"

April 18

Reagan's Keynote Speech at 1964 Republican National Convention: Text,  Video

Barry Goldwater's 1964 Republican Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech

James Boyd, "Nixon's Southern Strategy"

April 25

"Wallace's Army" (1968)

Part I

Feb. 6

Leffler, "The Cold War: What Do 'We Now Know'?"

Smith, "Kennan's Opposite"

O.A. Westad, "Secrets of the Second World"

Feb. 13

Interchange: Legacies of the Vietnam War

Feb. 20

Nicholas Cullather, "Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State"

Feb. 22

Kate Doyle, "The Atrocity Files"

Jeffery Gettleman, "Africa's Dirty Wars"

Feb. 27

Charles Eagles, "Toward New Histories of the Civil Rights Era"

Feb. 29

Martin Luther King, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963)

Kerner Commission Report (1967)