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21H.223

History of Work in the Modern US

3-0-9 units. HASS-H · Undergraduate

Examines the history of work in the United States from the late-nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on the changing meaning and nature of work itself. Topics will include historical transformations in the management of work; the impact of technological change on workers and workplaces; the role of government in shaping the economy and regulating employment; The relation of both paid and unpaid labor to the family and other social institutions; changes to the composition of the workforce and the role of nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, and sexual identity in shaping the experience of work, and labor movements and other collective efforts to transform working conditions and employment relations in the United States.

Fall 2002 · War & American Society

Topics

  • Introduction
  • The Civil War and the Making of the Nation
  • Same as Above
  • The Civil War and the Making of Americans
  • War and the Dawn of the American Century
  • World War I
  • World War II: Why We Fight
  • World War II: The Good War?
  • World War II: The War at Home
  • World War II and the Dawn of the Atomic Age
  • Vietnam
  • America in a Post-Cold War World
  • War, Media, and the Middle East
  • War in the Persian Gulf
  • September 11 and After

Readings

  • Adams, Michael C. C. The Best War Ever: America and World War II . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, pp. 1-19, 21-113, and 114-159.
    Listed reading
  • Alcott, Louisa May. Hospital Sketches . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960/1863.
    Listed reading
  • Baudrillard, Jean. “The Gulf War Did Not Take Place.” In The Gulf War Did Not Take Place . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995, pp. 61-87.
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  • Bourne, Randolph S. “The War and the Intellectuals” (1917). In War and the Intellectuals: Essays by Randolph S. Bourne, 1915-1919 . Edited by Carl Resek. New York: Harper & Row, 1964, pp. 3-14.
    Listed reading
  • Broyles, William, Jr. “Why Men Love War.” Esquire 102, no. 5, November 1984, pp. 55-65.
    Listed reading
  • Cohen v. California 403 U.S. 15 (1971).
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  • Ensler, Eve. Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War . New York: Villard, 2001.
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  • Freidel, Frank. “Dissent in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection.” In Dissent in Three American Wars by Samuel Eliot Morison, et al. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970, pp. 65-95.
    Listed reading
  • Gillette v. United States 401 U.S. 437 (1971).
    Listed reading
  • Hennessey, Maureen Hart. “The Four Freedoms.” In Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People, by Maureen Hart Hennessey, and Anne Knutson. Atlanta: High Museum of Art; Stockbridge, MA: Norman Rockwell Museum; New York: H.N. Abrams, 1999, pp. 95-103.
    Listed reading
  • Hersey, John. Hiroshima . New York: Knopf, 1946.
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  • Hirabayashi v. United States 320 U.S. 81 (1943).
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  • Irons, Peter. “Gordon Hirabayashi v. United States.” In The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court . New York: Penguin, 1990, pp. 37-62.
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  • James, William. “The Moral Equivalent of War” (1910). In Writings , 1902-1910 . New York, Viking, 1987, pp. 1281-1293.
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  • Johnson, Lyndon B. “Speech at Johns Hopkins University.” (1965). In Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views of the War . Edited by George Katsiaficas. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992, pp. 200-205.
    Listed reading
  • Kerber, Linda K. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship . New York: Hill and Wang, 1998, pp. 236-252, 261-267, and 278-302.
    Listed reading
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong. “The Brother in Vietnam.” In China Men . New York: Knopf, 1980, pp. 261-304.
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  • Korematsu v. United States 323 U.S. 214 (1944).
    Listed reading
  • Lincoln, Abraham. “House Divided Speech” (1858), “Letter to Horace Greeley” (1862), “Meditation on the Divine Will” (1862), “Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation” (1862), “Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus” (1862), “Address at Gettysburg” (1863), and “Second Inaugural Address” (1865). In Selected Speeches and Writings . New York: Vintage Books, 1992, pp. 131-139, 343-348, 405, and 449-450.
    Listed reading
  • Lowell, Robert. “For the Union Dead.” In Life Studies . New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959, pp. 70-72.
    Listed reading
  • McAlister, Melani. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East , 1945-2000 . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 1-42, 125-234, and 235-265.
    Listed reading
  • Minear, Richard H. Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel . New York: New Press, 1999.
    Listed reading
  • Neely, Jr., Mark E. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
    Listed reading
  • O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
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  • Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider . San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990/1939.
    Listed reading
  • Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971, pp. 363-391.
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  • Rehnquist, William H. All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime . New York: Knopf, 1998, pp. 184-211.
    Listed reading
  • Roosevelt, Theodore. “The Strenuous Life.” In The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses . St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1970/ 1902, pp. 1-21.
    Listed reading
  • Twain, Mark. “Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date)” (1901), “As Regards Patriotism” (1901), and “The War Prayer” (1905). In Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays , 1891-1910 . Edited by Louis J. Budd. New York: Viking Press, 1992, pp. 474-478 and 652-655.
    Listed reading
  • United States v. Seeger 380 U.S. 163 (1965).
    Listed reading
  • Walzer, Michael. “Terrorism.” In Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations . 2nd ed. New York: Basic Books, 1992, pp. 197-206.
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  • Walzer, Michael. “The Obligation to Die for the State” and “Conscientious Objection.” In Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War, and Citizenship . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970, pp. 77-98 and 120-145.
    Listed reading
  • Welsh v. United States 398 U.S. 333 (1970).
    Listed reading
  • Westbrook, Robert B. “Fighting for the American Family: Private Interests and Political Obligations in World War II.” In The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History . Edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993, pp. 195-221.
    Listed reading
  • Westbrook, Robert B. “‘I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl that Married Harry James’: American Women and the Problem of Political Obligation in World War II.” American Quarterly 42, no. 4, December 1990, pp. 587-614.
    Listed reading
  • Westbrook, Robert B. “In the Mirror of the Enemy: Japanese Political Culture and the Peculiarities of American Patriotism in World War II.” In Bonds of Affection: Americans Define Their Patriotism . Edited by John Bodnar. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 211-230.
    Listed reading
  • All Quiet on the Western Front. 1930.
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  • The Best Years of Our Lives. 1945.
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  • Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. 1988.
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  • Full Metal Jacket . 1987.
    Listed reading
  • Glory. 1990.
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  • Three Kings . 1999.
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Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: None U (Spring) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-9 units. HASS-H

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