Unit 1
The Way We Were (Or Not)
Readings and reminders for our first unit:
Mon 9/11 Roots of Change – Before the Fifties (Dunar Ch 1)
Wed 9/13 Fair Deal and “News of the Fifties (Dunar Ch 2) – see the Newspaper tab
Fri 9/15 The Luckiest Generation (Hine, “Luckiest Generation” PDF on Blackboard)
Links from today’s class:
“Family Date” instructional film (1950)
“Two Ford Family” commercial
Betty Crocker cake mix commercial
Opening scene of “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” (1955) – fantastic movie, by the way
“I Love Lucy” Season 2, Episode 4 (job switching episode)
A look at some exceptional 1950s recipes
Mon 9/18 Wikipedia Workshop. Bring your laptops, and ahead of time take a look at this Wikipedia entry on the US in the 1950s
Wed 9/20 The Nostalgia Trap (Coontz, “What We Miss” PDF on Blackboard)
Fri 9/22 The Postwar War (Dunar Ch 3). H-Lab #1 on the Wikipedia entry is due in class.