AC 211
COURSE SYLLABUS
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
Poltics and Culture after 9-11
Final Exam
