ࡱ> IKHa K jbjbA]A] ,4+?+?Kjjjjjjj#### $4m%B$X$X$X$X$X$X$X$$$$$$$$,#&Ru(`%jX$X$X$X$X$%$jjX$X$'%$$$X$jX$jX$$$~D,jjjjX$$$$jj$6$ #n$v$$=%0m%$($($$jd Lee Weber Spring Semester Recent U.S. History, 1960-Present 960:116g Tuesday/Thursday, 11:00-12:15 Wright Hall 7 COURSE INFORMATION I. Books to be Purchased: 1. Chafe, Sitkoff, and Bailey, A History of Our Time, 6th ed. (C,S, and B) 2. Patterson, Restless Giant: The U.S. from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (Patterson) 3. Schulman, LBJ and American Liberalism, (Shulman) 4. Story, and Laurie, The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000, (S and L) 5. Howard-Pitney, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 60s, (HP) 6. Stoll, U.S. Environmentalism Since 1945: A Brief History with Documents, (Stoll) II. Nature of Class Sessions: Most classes will be a combination of lecture and class discussion. Students should keep current on reading, as discussion questions will be posed in class. Class Books #1, and #2 are the primary texts for background reading and will provide the basis for understanding lecture notes. Texts 3-6 will provide specific issues for class discussion and students are urged to bring their copies to class when appropriate. III. Assessment: Assessment will include three exams and an undergraduate essay or graduate research paper. Each exam and the essay/paper will count for 25% of the total grade. Exams will consist of several short identification questions, several longer identification questions, and two or three major essays. On both the long identification and the essay portions of the exam, students will have some choice as to the questions addressed. UNDERGRADUATE ESSAYS will consist of 5-7 pages, double spaced with one inch margins. (Cover page and bibliography are NOT counted in the 5-7 pages of text.) Students are to examine the treatment of a major polticial, social, or economic movement by a SINGLE NEWSPAPER or MAJOR NEWS MAGAZINE (such as Time, Newsweek, or U.S. News and World Report.) At least ten issues of your newspaper or news magazine, spread out over ten years should be examined. You should utilize news articles, editorials, photographs, editorial cartoons, and letters to the editor. Topics to be treated may include: The Vietnam War; The Civil Rights Movement; the Environmental Movement; Feminism; The Rise of the Religious Right; or the Digital Information Revolution. Students who wish to choose other topics should receive prior permission of the instructor. GRADUATE RESEARCH PAPERS should be in Compare and Contrast format, analyzing the similarities and differences of two or more similar modern events. Graduate papers should be between 5000 and 6000 words (@ 16-20 pages. (Cover page and bibliography are NOT counted in the 16-20 pages.) Papers should give proper in-text citation credit to sources. Attention should be given to the causes of the events, the evolution of the events over time, and the immediate and long-range impacts of the events. Examples of issues to analyze would include: The Vietnam War and the War in Iraq; The Cold War and the War on Terror; The Impact of Television from 1950-80 versus the Impact of the Internet, 1980-the present; Religious Social Action in the 60s compared to the Moral Majority Movement of the 1980s; The Impeachment Cases of Nixon and Clinton. Graduate students will meet together with the instructor to discuss details early in the semester. Outlines of individual research plans should be completed by the end of the third week of class. IV. Attendance/Class Participation Attendance is expected. No specific grade deductions will occur due to absences; however it is expected that ALL students are responsible for material discussed in class, regardless of attendance. Students can expect some issues NOT FOUND IN THE READINGS to be discussed in class. Such issues will be included on exams. V. Office Hours Regular office hours in SRL 330..... Tuesday/Thursday 10:00-11:00 Regular office hours in PLS 253..... Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 10:00-11:00 I am also available to meet many other times by appointment. Most effective contact is via email, at  HYPERLINK "mailto:lee.weber@uni.edu" lee.weber@uni.edu Office phone is 273-2056. VI. Accommodations for Special Needs If any student has a disability or other special need which may affect your capacity to perform the work in the course, please speak with me privately during THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASS. Reasonable accommodations, consistent with federal law, will be provided by the UNI Office of Disability Services. VII. Schedule of Assignments and Class Meetings A detailed schedule of class sessions, indicating readings and assignment completion dates will be provided in a separate handout. Such schedule will be TENTATIVE, and is subject to changes which will be announced in class. Tentative Schedule of Class Meetings 1-15: Orientation to Course; Causes of the Cold War 1-17: Truman, IKE, JFK and Reagan...How the Cold War was Defined 1-22: The Cold War at Home: McCarthy and Fear of the Bomb 1-24: The Hot Parts of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis 1-29: JFK: The Man, the Myth, and the Haunting Day in Dallas 1-31: LBJ and American Liberalism: Text Discussion Seminar (Out at 12:00 noon) 2-5: Society in the 50s and 60s 2-7: The Warren Court and American Civil Liberties/1960s in Review) 2-12: First Exam 2-14: Background to the Civil Rights Movement 2-19: Confrontation and the White Backlash 2-21: MLK and Malcolm X: Text Discussion Seminar 2-26: I Have a Dream: Guess Whos Coming to Dinner? 2-28: Women, Hispanics, Native Americans and Gays follow the Movement (Out at 12:00) 3-4: The Vietnam War...How it All Began 3-6: Escalation; 1968; Tet, and Chaos; 3-11: The Anti-War Movement; Part One Letters from Vietnam Part One 3-13: The Anti-War Movement: Part II; Letters from Vietnam, Part Two (Out at 12:00) Spring Break 3-25: Vietnam Postscript; the War Power Resolution; Mayaquez/Wrap and Review 3-27: Second Exam 4-1: Nixon and Watergate 4-3: Ford, The Bicentennial and the New Politics of Jimmy Carter 4-8: Reagan/Bush and a new Morning in America 4-10: Crash Course in the 70s/80s: in Video 4-15: The Rise of Conservatism in America: Text Discussion Seminar 4-17: Hints of a New Age...GHWB and Desert Storm 4-22: The Clinton Years and the Digital Revolution 4-24: Us Environmentalism Since 1945: Text Discussion Seminar 4-29: Red States and Blue States...the Gore/Bush Fiasco of 2000 5-1: 9/11 and the War on Terror...United or Divided? Finals Week  R g fxyz0bLqiz  q+ 9 : K »»»»» h%hm%h%hm%5 hm%5hEahm%5hd#hm%0Jjhm%Ujhm%Uhm%hb=$hm%57"RY1[3 = H gdm%$a$gdm%K H P Q ;<X_hqgdm%oefxy aW/0bcIJKgdm%Kqr&'ij"#hiz{ @Agdm%$a$gdm%A;< ab <=gdm%=pq& ' 8 9 : ; < = > ? A C G H I K gdm%*&P1F:pm%/ =!"#$%DyK lee.weber@uni.eduyK Jmailto:lee.weber@uni.eduyX;H,]ą'c@@@ NormalCJ_HaJmH sH tH DA@D Default Paragraph FontRi@R  Table Normal4 l4a (k@(No List6U@6 b=$ Hyperlink >*B*phK4 z z z z LKG%"RY1[3=HPQ;<  X _  h  q oefxy aW/0bcIJKqr&'ij"#hiz{ @A;< ab <=pq&'89:;<=>?ACGHIM0p@ƀ0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@00p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@0p@  q oefxy aW/0bcIJKqr&'ij"#hiz{ @A;< abp&'89:;<=>?ACGHIM1Q1Q1Q 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o@0I!8o 0I!8o0I!8o 0I!8o0I!8o 0I!8o0I!8o 0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o 0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o @0I!8o 0I!8o 0I!8o0I!8o @0I!8o @0I!8o @0I!8o 0I!8o 0I!8o0I!8o 0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8o0I!8oK H KA=K K yKXM4; bdX_M::::::::@y\ KP @UnknownGTimes New Roman5Symbol3 Arial"h&K&P (n#!d4d6O2qHX)?T Lee Weber Lee Weber lee weber Oh+'0  < H T `lt|' Lee Weber Lee WeberNormal lee weber27Microsoft Word 11.3.8@Hʎ@n5@`+@Z0NP ՜.+,D՜.+,4 hp|  'PLS( 6  Lee Weber Title 8@ _PID_HLINKS'Alemailto:lee.weber@uni.edu  !"$%&'()*+,-./012345679:;<=>?ABCDEFGJRoot Entry FԥMLData 1Table#(WordDocument,4SummaryInformation(8DocumentSummaryInformation8@CompObjX FMicrosoft Word DocumentNB6WWord.Document.8