During this unit, we’ll pay attention to how scholarly arguments are constructed. <\/p>\n
Historians disagree on many things about the 1950s; our case studies will be: <\/p>\n
— Did the status of women go up or down in the 1950s?<\/p>\n
— Was the fear of Communist subversion a legitimate one? <\/p>\n
Mon 11\/6<\/strong> Gender and Family in the 1950s. Reading: “More is Better<\/a>” and “Beyond June Cleaver<\/a>” (both as PDFs, posted in Blackboard Unit 5 Folder)<\/p>\n Wed 11\/8<\/strong> Library Day – we will not meet in our regular classroom. Instead, bring laptops with you to the instructional classroom inside the glass-walled Childrens Book area of the library<\/p>\n Fri 11\/10<\/strong> – No Class, Veteran’s Day<\/em><\/p>\n Mon 11\/13<\/strong> Article Workshop. Bring to class (in print form or on your laptop) the scholarly article you selected as a result of our library day<\/p>\n Wed 11\/15<\/strong> Cold War & McCarthyism. Reading: “Venona Project” and “Cold War Historiography” (both as PDFs, posted in Blackboard Unit 5 Folder)<\/p>\n Our discussion will take the form of a debate on this unresolved historical question: Be ready to take *either* side, and employ evidence from our readings (and from anywhere else you want to pull information, e.g. from US History in Context or other reliable repository of scholarly information) \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffin the debate. You’ll be randomly assigned either to the “it was justified = a real threat” or “not justified = exaggerated hysteria” when you enter Wednesday’s class. <\/p>\n
\nTo what degree was anticommunism \/ fear of Communism justified in the 1950s?<\/strong><\/p>\n