Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Axel Schäfer
Veranstaltungsart: Vorlesung
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 2,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | -
Inhalt: This course seeks to engage you in a critical and analytical look at crucial themes in U.S. society and politics from the Progressive Era to the end of the Cold War as a backdrop for understanding current events and debates. Particular emphasis will be put on the impact of war, the growth of the state, socioeconomic change, social movements, cultural transformations, and political realignments. All weekly sessions consist of a mixture of lectures and voluntary tutorials. Tutorial topics vary, but planned themes include: American imperialism, Prohibition in the 1920s, life during the Great Depression, the decision to drop the atomic bomb, and the Civil Rights movement and its adversaries. Tutorials will use primary sources to gain a sense of how people thought about themselves and their society in different decades. We will also read secondary texts, which present a variety of ways of interpreting pivotal events of the period.
Zusätzliche Informationen: May 23 Guest Lecture by Elizabeth Shermer (Loyola University) June 6 Guest Lecture by David Thomson (Sacred Heart University) July 4 Guest Lecture by Richard King (University of Nottingham) "Loyalty, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Times of Crisis"
