{"id":53,"date":"2013-09-12T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/?p=53"},"modified":"2017-07-26T20:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T20:16:30","slug":"unit-1-the-way-we-were-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/unit-1-the-way-we-were-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 1: The Way We Were (Or Not)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readings and reminders for our first unit: <\/p>\n<p>Mon 9\/9 Roots of Change &#8211; Before the Fifties (Dunar Ch 1)<\/p>\n<p>Wed 9\/11 Fair Deal and &#8220;News of the Fifties (Dunar Ch 2) &#8211; see the <a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/newspaper\/\">Newspaper<\/a> tab<\/p>\n<p>Fri 9\/13 The Luckiest Generation (Hine, &#8220;Luckiest Generation&#8221; PDF on Blackb<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TEWZpUhDu8g\">o<\/a>ard)<\/p>\n<p>Links from today&#8217;s class:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h8kJzBJrOkU\">&#8220;Family Date&#8221; instructional film<\/a> (1950)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ojypE7Hx1Bo\">&#8220;Two Ford Family&#8221;<\/a> commercial<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VeJ2UrrF2Rk\">Betty Crocker cake mix<\/a> commercial<br \/>\nOpening scene of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TEWZpUhDu8g\">&#8220;The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit&#8221;<\/a> (1955) &#8211; fantastic movie, by the way<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/shows\/i-love-lucy\/job-switching-15119\/\">&#8220;I Love Lucy&#8221; Season 2, Episode 4<\/a> (job switching episode)<\/p>\n<p>Mon 9\/16 Wikipedia Workshop. Bring your laptops, and ahead of time take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_in_the_1950s\">this Wikipedia entry<\/a> on the US in the 1950s<\/p>\n<p>Wed 9\/18 The Nostalgia Trap (Coontz, &#8220;What We Miss&#8221; PDF on Blackboard)<\/p>\n<p>Fri 9\/20 The Postwar War (Dunar Ch 3). H-Lab #1 on the Wikipedia entry is due in class. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readings and reminders for our first unit: Mon 9\/9 Roots of Change &#8211; Before the Fifties (Dunar Ch 1) Wed 9\/11 Fair Deal and &#8220;News of the Fifties (Dunar Ch 2) &#8211; see the Newspaper tab Fri 9\/13 The Luckiest Generation (Hine, &#8220;Luckiest Generation&#8221; PDF on Blackboard) Links from today&#8217;s class: &#8220;Family Date&#8221; instructional film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-news","tag-fa13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}