AC 211
LECTURE OUTLINES
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Department of American Literature and Civilization
Week 1
Harlem and American Identity in Urban America
Week 2
Mass Culture and Generational Consciousness in the 1920s
Week 3
American Exceptionalism and the "Red Decade"
Week 4
FDR and the Emergence of Modern American Politics
Week 5
Race, Gender, and Cultural Mobilization in the "Good War"
Week 6
"Happy Days": Cultural Consensus in the Cold War Era
Week 7
Cultural Dissent in the 1950s
Week 8
Civil Rights and Social Change at the End of the Decade
Week 9
The Radical Sixties
Week 10
Watergate, the Politics of Illusion, and the "Buy-Centennial"
Week 11
Religion and American Identity in the Waning Cold War Era
Week 12
American Culture in the "Second Gilded Age"
Week 13
American Poltics and Culture in the Wake of 9-11
Final Exam
