The Modern U.S. from the Cold War to Bush v. Gore

Catalog description

This course is a survey of different American forms of life from the years 1945 to 2000 in United States history. “Forms of life” here refers to the cultural and political temperament and mood of particular periods within that larger span of years. In other words, we aim to figure out what it was like to be alive in the 1950s or 1968 or the 1970s, for example. In considering cultural, political, and intellectual movements and phenomena, the course covers gender, class, and race.