GraSPP
Area Politics C (Social Movements in the US Political History)
Faculty
KAZIN, Michael
Credit / Semester / Schedule / Language
2 Credits / Summer / English
Objectives/Overview
Purposes: To present a narrative and analysis of the major social movements in U.S. history from the 1870s to the present within the context of the changing political history of the nation as a whole.
Keywords
USA, history, social movement, modern, America, English
Schedule
1. Overview: Industrialism and Its Discontents
2. The Labor Movement in the late 19th Century 3. The Farmers’and Populist Movements
4. The Heyday of American Socialism
5. Progressivism I: Woman’s Rights, Prohibitionists, Urban Reformers, Black Rights
6. Progressivism II: The Elite Response 7. Social Movements during the Great Depression
8. The New Deal – Politics and Culture 9. The Anti-Communists
10. The Black Freedom Movement from the 1940s-60s
11. The Anti-War Movement and the New Left 12. Feminism and Gay Liberation
13. The Conservative Upsurge I: A Movement Emerges
14. The Conservative Upsurge II: The Elite Response
15. Discussion of Contemporary Politics in Historical Perspective
Teaching Methods
lectures, discussions, and Q&A sessions.
readings will be assigned and contribution by the participants are required.
Grading
attendance, contribution to the class discussion, and a final paper.
Required Text
Alan Brinkley, An Unfinished Nation, Vol. II, and selected primary documents (all on line).
Notes on Taking the Course
This is an intensive seminar that will be held in late July to early August. The schedule and a more detailed syllabus will be posted in early April.