1. Chaos or Community?: The Challenge of the Civil Rights Struggle

            For discussion:

      Martin Luther King Jr., Where do We Go From Here, Chaos or Community?, excerpt

      Bayard Rustin, From Protest to Politics Commentary 1965. 

2. Radicalization

For discussion:

      Carl Oglesby, Liberalism and the Corporate State, New Left Notes 1, no. 1 (January 21, 1966): 2-3.

      You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, New Left Notes, June 18, 1969

      Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, (watch first 7 segments, about 25 mins)

      Tom Wolfe, Radical ChicThat Party at Lennys New York Magazine (June 8, 1970).

3. War

For discussion:

      Kenrick Oliver, Atrocity, Authenticity and American Exceptionalism: (Ir)rationalising the Massacre at My Lai, Journal of American Studies 37, no. 2 (2003): 247268.

      Derek Siedman, Vietnam and the Soldiers Revolt: The Politics of a Forgotten History, Monthly Review 68, no. 2 (June 2016): 45-57.

4. Rebellions

For discussion:

      Gary Declaration, National Black Political Convention, 1972

      Plan Espirtual Atzlan, 1969

      Trail of Broken Treaties Position Paper, 1972; 

      The Stonewall Riot, 1969

5. Reaction

For discussion:

      Powell Memo, August 23, 1971

      Bruce H. Kalk, Wormleys Hotel Revisited: Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy and the End of the Second Reconstruction, The North Carolina Historical Review 71, no. 1 (January 1994): 85-105.

6. Disillusion: Vietnam, Watergate, and the CIAs Dirty Tricks

For discussion:

      A Look Back at the Watergate Hearings, PBS

      Eyewitness to Watergate: A Documentary History for Students (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2007), excerpts.

      Loch K. Johnson, James Angleton and the Church Committee, Journal of Cold War Studies 15, no. 4 (Fall 2013): 128-147.

7. 1970s Culture Wars Over Feminism, Abortion, and Gay/Lesbian Rights

For discussion:

      Lawrence J. McAndrews, Before Roe: Catholics, Nixon, and the Changing Politics of Birth Control, Fides et Historia 47, no. 1 (Winter/Spring2015): 24-43.

      Claire Bond Potter, Paths to Political Citizenship: Gay Rights, Feminism, and the Carter Presidency, Journal of Policy History 24, no. 1 (2012): 95-114.

      Gillian Frank, The Civil Rights of Parents: Race and Conservative Politics in Anita Bryant’s Campaign against Gay Rights in 1970s Florida, Journal of the History of Sexuality 22, no. 1 (Jan. 2013): 126-160.

8. Structural Racism and the Limits of the Second Reconstruction

For discussion:

      Ronald Formisano, Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993), chapter 4.

      Struggles in Steel, dir. Tony Buba

9. The 1970s Economy and the Neo-Liberal Breakthrough

For discussion:

      Daniel Rodgers, Age of Fracture (2011), chapter 2.

      Milton Friedman, The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits, 1971

10. Jimmy Carter and the Transformation of the Post-1960s Democratic Party

For discussion:

      Taylor Dark, The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999), Chapter 5.

      Brent Cebul, Supply-Side Liberalism: Fiscal Crisis, Post-Industrial Policy, and the Rise of the New Democrats, Modern American History 2 (2019): 139164.

11. Weakening Union Power and Workers in a Post-Industrial Economy

For discussion:

      Lane Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New Economic Divide (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), 152-177.

      Gabriel Winant, Hard Times Make for Hard Arteries and Hard Livers: Deindustrialization, Biopolitics, and the Making of a New Working Class, Journal of Social History 53, no. 1 (2019): 107132.

      Josiah Rector, The Spirit of Black Lake: Full Employment, Civil Rights, and the Forgotten Early History of Environmental Justice, Modern American History, 1, no. 1 (2018): 45-66.

      Joseph A. McCartin, Fire the Hell Out of Them: Sanitation Workers Struggles and the Normalization of the Striker Replacement Strategy in the 1970s, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 2:3 (Fall 2005): 67-92.

12. The Reagan Revolution

For discussion:

      Doug Rossinow, The Reagan Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), excerpt.

      Arthur Laffer, Taking the Side of Supply, Los Angeles Times, February 8, 1981.

      American Dream (1988) dir. Barbara Koppel