Listed in: History, as HIST-155
Formerly listed as: HIST-10
Francis G. Couvares (Section 01)
[US/TR/TS] The course traces United States political, social, and cultural history from 1900 to the present. Among the topics covered are the rise of the modern corporation, class conflict and the Progressive movement; immigration, ethnic pluralism, and the rise of mass culture; the Great Depression and the New Deal; World War II, the Cold War, and McCarthyism; the civil rights, women’s and environmental movements, the New Left, the New Right, and the continuing inequalities of race and class. Films and videos will regularly supplement class readings. Three class meetings per week.
Limited to 40 students. Spring semester. Professor Couvares.
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
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For the record : a documentary history of America | New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. | David Emory Shi and Holly A. Mayer | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
Fear itself : the New Deal and the origins of our time | New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2013 | Ira Katznelson | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
Coming of age in Mississippi | New York : Dell Pub., [1968] | Anne Moody | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
A rumor of war | New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996 | Philip Caputo | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
Boston against busing : race, class, and ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1991] | Ronald P. Formisano | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.