All this week, we’ll be looking at the world between 1945-1960 from several different angles: <\/p>\n
Mon 2\/6 – Postwar Suburbanization & the Baby Boom<\/strong> = demographics and the changing landscape of how<\/a> and where<\/a> Americans lived. Reading is HOT 55-65 (Hines, Marchand and Myers) + MO 57-63. Why does Hines argue they were the “luckiest generation”? Do you think that is true? Why or why not? <\/p>\n Wed 2\/8 – Labor and the Economy<\/strong>. Reading is MO 45-50 and 58-67, plus these two additional readings in PDF form: “The Cold War and the Feminine Mystique<\/a>” by Sara Evans, and “American Workers and the New World Order<\/a>,” by Jacqueline Jones. You may want to compare their points of view – are they in agreement about the impact of the postwar economy on the American workforce, and the way in which that impact was gendered?<\/p>\n Links: Fri 2\/10 – Juvies? Postwar Youth Culture<\/strong>. Reading is MO 90-99 plus a PDF packet that includes two readings from the 1950s that show society’s anxiety about young people’s values and behavior. Download that packet here<\/a>. <\/p>\n To go with our discussion of labor issues and youth culture and get us ready for a day of Congressional hearings in the following week, I’ll be showing a classic fifties film at 3:30 pm on Monday, Feb 13th<\/strong>. It will either be Blackboard Jungle<\/a> or Rebel Without a Cause<\/a> or On the Waterfront<\/a>. I know many of you work during that time so attendance isn’t required but it may be of interest if you can make it. I’ll announce the location when I have a room reserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All this week, we’ll be looking at the world between 1945-1960 from several different angles: Mon 2\/6 – Postwar Suburbanization & the Baby Boom = demographics and the changing landscape of how and where Americans lived. Reading is HOT 55-65 (Hines, Marchand and Myers) + MO 57-63. Why does Hines argue they were the “luckiest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-spr12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“To Secure These Rights<\/a>,” full text at Truman library
\nCBS Edward R. Murrow, Harvest of Shame<\/a><\/em> (1960)<\/p>\n