Readings will come from the following books:
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash, 1929. Boston. MA: Mariner Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780395859995.
Robert McElvaine, Down and Out in the Great Depression. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780807840993.
Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest. 1st ed. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1983. ISBN: 9780394716282.
Studs Terkel, The Good War. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1984. ISBN: 9780394531038.
John Morton Blum, V Was For Victory. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. ISBN: 9780151940806.
John Dower, War Without Mercy. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1987. ISBN: 9780394751726.
Richard Polenberg, The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Boston, MA: Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2000. ISBN: 9780312133108.
Note: Page numbers listed in the table below may not match the exact editions of the books listed above.
| Ses # |
Topics |
Readings |
| 1 |
Introduction: From Breadlines to Atom Bombs |
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| Part One: The Great Depression |
| 2 |
The End of Prosperity |
Galbraith, 1-42, 66-143, 168-194 |
| 3 |
The Unemployed |
McElvaine, pp. 33-120 |
| Part Two: New Deal |
| 4 |
Roosevelt's 100 Days |
Brinkley, pp. 3-142; Polenberg, 1-1,2 |
| 5 |
Strikes and Struggles |
McElvaine, pp. 121-229; Polenberg, 2-3; 4 |
| 6 |
New Deal Order |
Brinkley, pp. 143-268; Polenberg, 1-3,4,5; 2-1,2,4,5; 5 |
| Part Three: World War II at Home |
| 7 |
From Isolationism to Pearl Harbor |
Blum, pp. 3-14; Terkel, pp. 19-37 |
| 8 |
Mobilizing for Victory |
Blum, pp. 15-52, 90-146; Terkel, pp. 301-342; Polenberg, 8 |
| 9 |
Gender and Race in Wartime |
Blum, pp. 184-220; Dower, pp. 3-32; Terkel, pp. 108-125; 135-165; Polenberg, 6-4, 9-1,2,3,6,7,8 |
| Part Four: World War II Abroad |
| 10 |
D-Day |
Blum, 53-89; Terkel, pp. 36-55, 95-104, 163-193, 251-290 |
| 11 |
Hiroshima |
Dower, pp. 33-93, 118-146, 293-301; Terkel, pp. 59-66, 69-79, 85-97, 505-530, 545-55 |
| 12 |
Conclusion: Legacies for Postwar America |
Blum, pp. 221-340; Polenberg, 9-9 |
| 13 |
Final Exam |
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