January 9 – Introductory Session: Politics and History

            READ IN CLASS, DISCUSS:  selections from George Washington Plunkitt, Henry George (to be handed out in class)

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January 16 – From Machine Politics to Populism

            READ:  Hofstadter, 1-130

            LISTEN: William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold" Speech, delivered July 9, 1896 at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

January 23 – Progressivism to Reform

            READ: Hofstader, 131-269

            READ (E-RESERVE):  Robert D. Johnston, "The Age of Reform: A Defense of Richard Hofstadter Fifty Years On," Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era, April 2007

            READ: T. Roosevelt, "It Takes More Than That to Kill a Bull Moose" (1912)

January 30 – A New Deal

            READ: Weiss, xiii-95, 157-208

            READ (E-RESERVE): Brinkley, "The New Deal and the Idea of the State," from The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, ed. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (Princeton, 1989)

            LISTEN: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat 13, June 24, 1938 (Purging the Democratic Party)

February 6 – Race and Region

            READ: Weiss, 208-301

            READ (E-RESERVE): Katznelson, Geiger, and Kryder, "Limiting Liberalism: The Southern Veto in Congress, 1933-1950," Political Science Quarterly 108:2 (Summer 1993), 283-306.

            LISTEN: Harry Truman Address to the NAACP, June 29, 1947

            READ: Southern response

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February 13 – Suburban Warriors

READ: McGirr, 1-186

READ (E-RESERVE): Kruse, "The Politics of Race and Public Space: Desegregation, Privatization, and the Tax Revolt in Atlanta," Journal of Urban History 31 (2005)

LISTEN: Ronald Reagan, "A Time for Choosing," October 27, 1964

February 20 – The Television President

            READ: McGinniss

February 20 MOVIE NIGHT: The Candidate (1972)

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February 27 – Church and State

            READ: McGirr, 187-273

            READ (E-RESERVE): Dionne, "The Virtues of Virtue" from Why Americans Hate Politics (Simon and Schuster, 1991)

            READ (E-RESERVE): Falwell, "Strengthening Families in the Nation" (1982)

March 5 – The End of Welfare

            READ: DeParle

March 5 MOVIE NIGHT: The War Room (1993)

March 12 – The Modern Political Machine

            READ (E-RESERVE): Ben-Cramer, "The Price of Being Poppy," from What it Takes: The Road to the White House (Random House, 1992)

            READ (E-RESERVE): Sidney M. Milkis and Jesse H. Rhodes, "George W. Bush, the Republican Party, and the ‘New' American Party System," Perspectives on Politics 5:3 (September 2007), 461-488.

            READ:  On History News Network, at least two articles (of your choosing) that discuss the 2008 election

            LAST DAY TO SUBMIT READER RESPONSE II

            FINAL PAPERS DUE NO LATER THAN 6:00PM THURS, MARCH 20