Learning Outcomes:
Students completing this module will have developed:
• Their understanding of post-war American history, and the ability to identify key historical debates and issues.
• Their ability to give presentations, and to engage in informed and constructive seminar debate on the major themes and events of post-war US history.
• Their ability to synthesize historiographical issues in post-war US history.
• Their ability to present independent conclusions in essay form based on secondary reading and a limited exposure to primary sources.
Indicative Module Content:
Week 1: Challenges to the Liberal Consensus
Week 2: Suburban Warriors
Week 3: The Draft Goldwater Movement
Week 4: White Flight and the Myth of Southern Exceptionalism
Week 5: The Rise of the Sunbelt
Week 6: READING WEEK
Week 7: The Vietnam War
Week 8: The New Right
Week 9: Evangelicals in Politics
Week 10: Challenges to Détente and Human Rights
Week 11: Ronald Reagan