Vorlesung: Global Giant - Multicultural Society: The United States from the End of the Second World War to 9/11

Winter Term 2016/17
Lecture Prof. Dr. Manfred Berg

Global Giant - Multicultural Society: The United States from the End of the Second World War to 9/11
Monday, 11.00-13.00 o'clock, Hörsaal Historisches Seminar/Lecture Hall

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Syllabus/Selected Bibliography
Review Sheet
Schedule of Oral Exams

1st Lecture: 17 October 2016: General Introduction – America after World War II

2nd Lecture: 24 October 2016: The U.S. and the Origins of the Cold War

3rd Lecture: 31 October 2016: Affluence and Anxiety: American Society in the Fifties

4th Lecture: 7 November 2016: The African-American Civil Rights Movement

5th Lecture: 14 November 2016: The Heyday of Liberalism: JFK and LBJ

6th Lecture: 21 November 2016: The Vietnam War

7th Lecture: 28 November 2016: The Social Movements and Counterculture of the Sixties

8th Lecture: 5 December 2016: The Nixon and Ford Presidencies

9th Lecture: 12 December 2016: The Reagan Revolution

10th Lecture: 19 December 2016: The End of the Cold War

11th Lecture: 9 January 2017: Race, Immigration, Gender: The Changing Contours of American Society

12th Lecture: 16 January 2017: Culture Wars and the Rise of the Religious Right

13th Lecture: 23 January 2017: Prosperity and Partisan Confrontation, 1992-2000

14th Lecture: 30 January 2017: 9/11 and the War on Terror

15th Lecture: 6 February 2017: Exams