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Syllabus

Introduction
02/01/2021

- 02/01/2021 | Introduction

 

Most of the readings for the course are available through the web site.  There are three exceptions and I suggest that you purchase these three books.    They are starred on the syllabus and listed below:

J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of the Atomic Bombs Against Japan (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1997)

Henry Louis Gates, Colored People: A Memoir (New Kork: Knopf, 1994)

Jerald E. Podair, The Strike that Changed New York.

If you are not able to purchase these, they are all available with some limitations through the library.  Brianna Kirk has summarized how they can be accessed below:

The J. Samuel Walker book (Prompt and Utter Destruction) is available as an E-book through the Library website (via Ebscohost) and is available on HathiTrust. Two downsides here -- it looks like the E-book through the library only allows one viewer at a time, and the HathiTrust digital version allows you to "check out" the book in one hour intervals. HathiTrust seems to be the more reliable option here.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015059216476&view=1up&seq=9

The Henry Louis Gates book (Colored People) is available through HathiTrust, with the same one hour "check out."
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015032930409&view=1up&seq=7

Podair's The Strike That Changed New York is available as an E-book through ProQuest. I don't think it has a one viewer at a time rule like Ebscohost does.
https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.proxy01.its.virginia.edu/lib/uva/detail.action?docID=3420156

 

 

National Security
02/08/2021

Unit 1 - 02/08/2021 | National Security
Reciprocity Between Citizen and State
02/15/2021

Unit 2 - 02/15/2021 | Reciprocity Between Citizen and State

We are aware that the link to the roundtable page has not been working for some students. If the link doesn't work for you, CLICK HERE to access the roundtable in PDF form, we'll have the normal link working again as soon as we can.

Break Day: No Lecture
02/17/2021

- 02/17/2021 | Break Day: No Lecture
Cold War, Warm TV
02/22/2021

Unit 3 - 02/22/2021 | Cold War, Warm TV
  • Film:
  • Read:
    • David Greenberg, Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image, Chapters 1-2 (72 pgs.).
    • Susan J. Douglas, Chapter 1, "Fractured Fairy Tales," pp. 21-42, in Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media.
    • Stephanie Coontz, Ch. 2, "'Leave it to Beaver’: and ‘Ozzie and Harriet’: American Families in the 1950s," pp. 23-41, in The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap.
Experts Everywhere
03/01/2021

Unit 4 - 03/01/2021 | Experts Everywhere
  • Roundtable: Please be sure to read/view te roundtable before WED. lecture Experts Everywhere
  • Film:
    • Dr. Strangelove (1964), 93 minutes
      [VHS 0166, DVD 01756, DVD 00149, DVD 00302, LD 0816, LD 0275]
  • Read:
    • Ellen Herman, Ch. 9, "The Growth Industry," in The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts.
    • Michael Harrington. The Other America: Poverty in the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1962), Ch. 1 (18 pgs) and Ch. 9 (17 pgs).
CYOU Executive Summary Due Midnight Wed., March 3
03/03/2021

- 03/03/2021 | CYOU Executive Summary Due Midnight Wed., March 3
  • Does your theme fall within the period covered by the class
  • Does your theme complement the other units?
  • Why is this particular theme important?
  • Why should the class know more about it? That is, why does this theme matter?
From Kitchen to Kink
03/08/2021

Unit 5 - 03/08/2021 | From Kitchen to Kink
PAPER: 1965 in historical perspective Due midnight, Wed. March 10
03/10/2021

- 03/10/2021 | PAPER: 1965 in historical perspective Due midnight, Wed. March 10

Please select an article from the New York Times published on your birthday, 1965.  Sum up briefly the gist of the article in less than one page, but devote the remaining four pages to placing the subject covered by the article in broader historical context.  What events lead to the situation described in your article? Is this situation part of some larger trends? If the situation is ongoing, how did previous actions constrain or inform major players in 1965? History rarely repeats itself, so feel free to compare and contrast your 1965 subject matter to previous historical examples.  In doing so, please draw upon the course readings, films, lectures, section discussion, and your own CYOU research.  You are also welcome to draw upon your historical knowledge from other classes and resources.

This video offers a quick guide to accessing the NYT through the UVa Library System and Proquest. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT2vHxjasLk 

The librarian who created this video is Keith Weimer, and can be reached at kw6m@virginia.edu

The direct link to the NYT through Proquest is

https://search-proquest-com.proxy01.its.virginia.edu/hnpnewyorktimes?accountid=14678

Power to the People
03/15/2021

Unit 6 - 03/15/2021 | Power to the People
Politics and Media
03/22/2021

Unit 7 - 03/22/2021 | Politics and Media
  • No Readings, No Film, No Sections This Week: Prepare for midterm
  • Please use this time to work on your CYOU
Midterm Wed March 24
03/24/2021

- 03/24/2021 | Midterm Wed March 24

The Midterm Exam for Viewing America will be during class, 10 AM to 10:50 AM, EST, Wednesday, March 24th. Students will be given three questions, of which they will choose two on which to write short essay responses. Each short essay should be between 400 and 650 words. Students will receive the questions at 10 AM via email and the answers need to be uploaded to their section Collab site under Assignments by 11 AM in Microsoft Word format. The exam will be "open note" and cover the material in the first seven Units. Please be sure to include the word count for each essay.

The TAs will answer any further questions via email and the TAs, in addition to Professor Balogh, encourage attendance in their office hours as well.

Break Day: No Lecture
03/29/2021

- 03/29/2021 | Break Day: No Lecture
Why Vietnam?
03/31/2021

Unit 8 - 03/31/2021 | Why Vietnam?
  • LECTURE ON WED.
  • PLEASE BE SURE TO LOG INTO YOUR DISCUSSION SECTION THROUGH COLLAB AT THE REGULAR TIME, THURSDAY OR FRIDAY.
  • Film:
    • Coming Home (1978), 130 minutes
      [VHS 5107, LD 1018, and LD 0508]
  • Read:
    • Jonathan Schell, The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War (New York: Pantheon, 1987) pp. 3-55. Part I and Part II
    • Balogh, Brian. "From Metaphor to Quagmire: The Domestic Legacy of the Vietnam War," pp 24-55, in Neu, Charles E. After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), Part I and Part II
    • Robert D. Schulzinger, "'It’s Easy to Win a War on Paper': The United States and Vietnam, 1961-1968," Ch. 6, pp 183 – 218 in Diane B Kunz, ed., The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations in the 1960s.
Running Against the Establishment in 68
04/05/2021

Unit 9 - 04/05/2021 | Running Against the Establishment in 68
  • Film:
    • Joe (1970), 107 minutes
      [VHS 5978 (3 copies)]
  • Read:**Jerald E. Podair, The Strike that Changed New York.
New Agendas
04/12/2021

Unit 10 - 04/12/2021 | New Agendas

THERE ARE NO SECTIONS ON THURSDAY OR FRIDAY THIS WEEK DUE TO "BREAK DAY.

  • Film:
  •  Silkwood (1983), 131 minutes
    Read:
  • Herman, Ch. 10, "The Curious Courtship of Psychology and Women’s Liberation," 276-303.
Break Day(s) No Section Thursday or Friday
04/15/2021

- 04/15/2021 | Break Day(s) No Section Thursday or Friday
From Malaise to Morning in America
04/19/2021

Unit 11 - 04/19/2021 | From Malaise to Morning in America
CYOU Project Due midnight, Friday, April 23
04/23/2021

- 04/23/2021 | CYOU Project Due midnight, Friday, April 23

 

Culture Wars
04/26/2021

Unit 12 - 04/26/2021 | Culture Wars

The film and reading will be determined by the winning CYOU.

Each CYOU team in the section will present a ten minute summary of their CYOU.

The remainder of the section will be devoted to discussing the lecture, reading and film from the winning CYOU.

CYOU Lecture
04/28/2021

Unit 13 - 04/28/2021 | CYOU Lecture
Re-Viewing America
05/03/2021

Unit 14 - 05/03/2021 | Re-Viewing America
FINAL EXAM
05/13/2021

- 05/13/2021 | FINAL EXAM

 

 

Still Vietnam
05/31/2021

Unit 16 - 05/31/2021 | Still Vietnam

I have cleared this week of other assignments so that your CYOU groups can get a lot of work done.  If you did not complete the readings and film about Vietnam from last week, now is a good time to catch up.  (See Unit 8 "Why Vietnam).

Please use the regularly scheduled Discussion Section time to meet with your CYOU Group.  The CYOU Group Leader should set up a Zoom meeting at that time for the entire CYOU.

Your group should report via e-mail to your TA on the status of your CYOU by Sunday night, March 29.