Glenn T. Seaborg, discoverer of plutonium and Chairman of the AEC, 1961 to 1971. (Image courtesy of the U.S. DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments site.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Meg Jacobs
MIT Course Number
21H.131
As Taught In
Fall 2000
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Highlights
This course features archived syllabi from various semesters.
Course Description
This course examines the American experience at home and abroad from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Cold War. Topics include: America's role as global superpower, foreign and domestic anticommunism, social movements of left and right, suburbanization, and popular culture.
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