U.S. Since the 1960s

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course will broadly examine U.S. history since the 1960s. Its historical arc will trace the crisis and decline of the New Deal order and the subsequent rise and crisis of the neoliberal order. It will explore this arc using political, social, and labor history, political economy, cultural studies, and the history of U.S. foreign relations. Among the discrete topics it may address are: the impact of the civil rights movement; the Vietnam War; the economic crisis of the 1970; the rise of neoliberalism; the Reagan era; the U.S. in the post-Cold War world; the rise and impact of the feminist and gay rights movements; the emergence of a post-industrial, post-New Deal political economy; the legacy of 9/11; the rise and impact of digital technologies; and the roots and significance of Trumpism