History 2260 Course Syllabus
- The Cold War
- Post-War Boom
- The Black Movement
- Feminism
- Chicano Movement/Immigration
- Latin America in the ‘80s
- U.S. In the World after Vietnam
- Economic Changes Since the 1970s
- War in Afghanistan and Iraq
- 2008 Financial Crisis
List of History Course Outlines and Resources
Cold War Abroad
Truman Doctrine: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp
Marshall Plan: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947marshallplan1.html
Nkrumah: KwameNkrumahNeo-colonialism(1).docx
Homer Hall on Korea: http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/memoirs/hall_homer/index.htm
(Dead link) Cummings on Korea (Read Chapter 1: The Course of the War): http://www.cognitivestyles.com/GINA_PCA/Korean%20History%20Etc/The%20Kor...
Hochschild (click to watch the video, about 10 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh_Zu4lrk7o
Cold War at Home
McCarthy: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456
Post-War Boom
Brecher: http://www.prole.info/texts/strike_wwii.html
Reuther: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/17/books/last-of-his-kind.html?pagewanted...
Between the Hills and the Sea excerpt above, called Gilden. Once open, click on arrows at the top right of the screen and rotate clockwise to make readable.
Gilden, K. B. 1971. Between the Hills and the Sea. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.
https://cod.on.worldcat.org/oclc/159345?databaseList=638
(As you can see, I've included the citation to the book. Since our site is open, we can't post copyright protected materials. One option is that we could put the reading on physical course reserve).
Father Knows Best episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bl4oQiMsK4&list=PL7Pd2tFaAGUNJ_pZdv8zpM...
Redbook on the suburbs: http://archive.org/details/IntheSub1957
A Word to the Wives: http://archive.org/details/Wordtoth1955
Salt of the Earth: http://archive.org/details/clacinonl_SaltOfTheEarth
The Black Movement
Brown: http://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html
Southern Manifesto: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/sources_document2.html
Rosa Parks: The Front of the Bus.docx
Little Rock: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17316129
Freedom Riders: http://video.pbs.org/video/1925571160
Birmingham, 1963: Watch both videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-881Pf9msA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHUf2rRKQnY
Negroes with Guns
Williams, Robert F. 1998. Negroes with Guns. African American life series; African American life series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.