Pugh Hall: Room 120/Office: Room 230 Keene-Flint Hall

America in the Sixties

Dr. Alan Petigny// 273-3393/[email protected] Pugh Hall: Room 120/Office: Room 230 Keene-Flint Hall Class Hours: Tuesday (10:40 – 11:30) and Thursday (10:40 – 12:35) Office Hours: To Be Announced Course Readings Website: http://ufhistorysocialmovements.squarespace.com/ Username: history Password: petigny

Course Introduction

This course provides a broad survey of U.S. history during the long decade of the 1960s. The core readings in this course are designed to familiarize students with some of the leading issues pertaining to the social, political and diplomatic history of the United States from mid-1950s to early 1970s. They are also designed to allow students to work on their analytical and writing skills by focusing on two book reviews. Final grades will be determined by several factors: class participation (which will include weekly summaries of the readings), pop quizzes, two long book reviews, and both a midterm and a final exam. Students will be allowed to miss one quiz (or drop the lowest grade of one quiz).

Required Readings: The required books consist of Mark Lytle’s America’s Uncivil Wars and Tom Wolfe’s Radical Chic (both available at the University bookstore). All of the weekly readings will be available via the course readings website (see the website address, along with the username and password, at the top of the page).

Grades will be decided along the following lines: 1) First Book Review :15 percent 2) Second Book Review :15 percent 3) Class Participation :10 percent 4) Quizzes :20 percent 5) Midterm :20 percent 6) Final Exam :20 percent

**(Please note that class participation includes weekly writing assignments and weekly discussion)

Needless to say, plagiarism will not be tolerated as it constitutes academic theft. For any questions regarding the University of Florida’s policy on academic honesty, please consult the following website: http://www.dso.ufl.edu/judicial/. Should you require any accommodations as the result of a disability, please let me know as soon as possible. For any questions regarding UF’s policy on disability accommodations, please consult the following website: http://www.dso.ufl.edu/drc/.

On a final note, the date of specific assignments, as well as some of the online readings are subject to modest revisions. The use of computers—even for note taking—is not allowed in this class. Excessive absences and tardiness will also result in lowering of a student’s final grade. Be sure to arrive to class on time, and please remember to turn off your cell phone.

Week I: Week 1: Introduction

 Introduction August 23, 2012

Week II: Week 2: The Modern Civil Rights Movement August 28 & August 30  Godfrey Hodgson, “The Ideology of the Liberal Consensus” from America In Our Time

 Handout: The Southern Manifesto

 James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations, “Race”

Week III: Week 3: Civil Rights Part 2

September 4 &  Martin Luther King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” September 6

Week IV: Week 16: War on Poverty & The Great Society September 11 & September 13  “Lyndon Johnson and American Liberalism” form James T. Patterson’s Grand Expectations

 “Lyndon B. Johnson, “The Great Society” from A History of Our Time

Week V: Week 5: Women in the Postwar Period

September 18 &  Alan Petigny, The Permissive Society, “Women.” September 20  Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, “The Happy Housewife Heroine,” pages 33-68.

 Handout: “No More Miss America!”

. Week VI Week 6: Women Part 2 September 25 & September 27  The Eruption of Difference” in Alice Echols’ Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975

 Due: Optional paper on the Inaugural Issue of Ms. Magazine

Week 7: Berkeley Free Speech Movement Week VII  Milton Viorst, Fire in the Streets, “Igniting Berkeley” October 2 & October 4  Michael Rossman, “The Wedding Within the War,” from Takin’ It to The Streets

 Midterm Exam Week VIII Week 8: The New Left

October 9 &  Peter Collier, “Something Happened to Me Yesterday” from October 11 Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Destructive Generation

 Milton Viorst, Fire in the Streets, “Manifesto Writing, 1962”

 Excerpt from “The Port Huron Statement”

Week IX Week 9: Vietnam

October 16 &  James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations, “Escalation in October 18 Vietnam.”

 Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, “The Making of a of a Decision: Vietnam 1967-1968”

 Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, “Fade-out,” pages 409-419.

 A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America edited by William Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff, “John Kerry: Vietnam Veterans Against the War,” page 324-328.

Week X Week 10: Vietnam Part 2

Oct. 23 & 25  Excerpt from Richard Nixon’s No More Vietnams  Excerpt from Lyndon Johnson’s The Vantage Point Week XI Week 11: Backlash  Spiro Agnew, “Imprudence in the Streets” from William October 30 & Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff’s A History of Our Time Nov 1  Handout: The Hard Hat Riot (from The New York Times)

Week XII Week 12: The Rise of Conservatism Nov 6 & Nov 8  Excerpt of Senator Barry Goldwater’s Acceptance Speech (1964) (from Steven M. Gillon’s The American Paradox

 Edward Berkowitz, Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies, “The Me Decade and the Turn to the Right,” pages 158-177.

Week XIII Week 13: Sexual Revolution

Nov 13 &  David Halberstam’s The Fifties, Chapter 20 (Dealing with Nov 15 Alfred Kinsey)

 James Jones, “Dr. Yes,” The New Yorker (September 1, 1997).

Week XIV Week 14: Black Militancy Nov 20 (No Class on  The Kerner Commission on Race in America in From Nov. 22 due to Timbuktu To Katrina Tanksgiving)  Stokely Carmichael On Black Liberation in From Timbuktu to Katrina

 Handout: “Position Paper of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (1966) Due: Radical Chic Book Review

Week 15: Chicano Power  “The “Road to Political Empowerment” from Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement  Brian D. Behnken, “We Want Justice: Police Murder, Mexican American Community Response, and the Chicao Movement,” from Dan Berger, editor, The Hidden 1970s: Week XV Histories of Radicalism, pages 195 -213. Nov 27 & Nov 29  Handout: Corky Gonzales, “I Am Joaquin”

Week XVI Week 16: The Sexual Revolution Dec 4 & 6  Excerpted from Richard Hofstadter, Great Issues in American History, pages 472-474. Abraham Ribicoff Senate Speech On De Facto Segregation

 The Best American History Essays: 2006, Matthew D. Lassiter, “The Suburban Origins of Color-Blind Conservatism: Middle-Class Consciousness in the Charlotte Bus Crisis.”

 Paper Due: America’s Uncivil Wars

 Final Exam: Tuesday Dec 11 from 5:30 pm – 7:30 p.m.