This is the second part of a two-semester course that studies American cultural history through a selection of key texts and key concepts. You do not have to have taken the first course in order to attend the second course.
In this course, we will engage with these texts and concepts as cultural historians who understand the connection between text and history as interdependent, following the New Historical paradigm of “the historicity of the text and the textuality of history.” We will work our way through the Progressive Era and the New Deal to WWII and the Cold War, followed by the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the conservative turn of the 1980s, and the culture wars of the 1990s. The course concludes with sessions on 9/11 and the impact of the communication revolution on U.S. cultural history.
- Dozent/in: Daniel Stein