•  Dower, John.  War Without Mercy (Pantheon)

•  Stueck, William.  Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History (Princeton)

•  Karnow, Stanley.  Vietnam: A History (Penguin)

•  Graham Greene, The Quiet American

• Strunk and White's Elements of Style
  

• Thursday: Intro and FDR “Day of Infamy” speech
• University of Maryland McKeldin Library site: http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/PearlHarbor/fdr-speech.htm#doi
• National Archives site: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/day-of-infamy/
  
• supplemental on re-writing
• McConnell, Stuart. "Reading the Flag: A Reconsideration of the Patriotic Cults of the 1890s.”  In Bonds of Affection: Americans Define Patriotism, ed. by John Bodnar (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996): 102-119. Available on ereserve and/or Blackboard.

• Of interest: Political cartoons from the Spanish-American War

• Monday: How to view a documentary critically: “Pacific Century” video 9, “Sentimental Imperialists.” 
• Tuesday:
• DeTemple, Jill. “Singing the Maine: The Popular Image of Cuba in the Sheet Music of the Spanish-American War.  The Historian 63.4 (Summer 2001): 715-729.
  
• Schorman, Rob. “Remember the Maine, Boys, and the Price of this Suit.” The Historian 61.1 (Fall 1998); political cartoons
• In-class exercise: Using library databases, e.g., "Historical Newspapers"
  

• Thursday:
• Carl Schurz, “The Policy of Imperialism: Address at the Anti-Imperialist Conference in Chicago, October 17, 1899,” Liberty Tract No. 4 (Chicago: Anti-Imperialist League, 1899).  Look at the first 6 pages, available on the Web. Go to: http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/ailtexts/schurz.html
•   Primary source readings:
   http://www.boondocksnet.com/centennial/sctexts/assimilation.html McKinley’s statement on Benevolent assimilation, Dec. 21, 1898.
   http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5575/  McKinley explaining actions to Methodist clergy
• Political cartoons from the Spanish-American War
• Assignment: find examples from contemporary media that are germaine to a topic of interest, Spanish-American War--use Library database, Historical Newspaper Databases Due next Tuesday.
  

•  Monday evening:--"Crucible of Empire"
  • http://www.pbs.org/crucible/frames/_music.html
    
•  Tuesday: See and listen to "Yellow Journalism" and "1890s Music" sections of the PBS website, “Crucible of Empire" http://www.pbs.org/crucible/frames/_music.html
  
• Assignment due: Newspaper article of interest, from the Historical Newspaper Database, and an article from JSTOR.
  

•  Thursday:
  • Lecture on origins of Japanese aggression in Asia.  See Mathew White's maps on modern China.; U.C.S.D. map site
  • Dower War Without Mercy I, pp. ix – 76.
  • See Dower's website at MIT, Visualizing Cultures

• Monday evening:--Frank Capra's "The Battle of China" from the series, "Why We Fight" [D810.P7 U6 W5 1989 v. 5 video]
  

• Tuesday: Skim War Without Mercy, Chapters 4 and 5, pp. 77 – 117; read Chapter 7 ""Yellow, Red, and Black Men" pp. 147-180.
  

•  Thursday: Skim War Without Mercy, Chapters 8 and 9, pp. 203-261; read Chapter 11, "From War to Peace."
  

•  Monday evening:

• Tuesday: Career Services workshop. Laura Denbow.

•  Thursday: Library workshop on researching articles, books, general discernment between academic and popular.  See library research page for this assignment.   Dot Thompson.
• Citation guides Useful links with guidelines for footnoting and bibliographies.  Choose a style and stick with it.

 

Week VI. (9/25; 27) WWII in Popular culture

•  Monday evening film:--"The Best Years of Our Lives"

• Tuesday:
• Music, impact  on formation of “greatest generation”; Voices of World War II (http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/main.htm)
• Japanese internment website posters (http://bss.sfsu.edu/internment/posters.html)
  

• Thursday:
  
• Discussion of popular media websites
• "Voices of World War II"
• "Man on the Street" interviews
  
• "Songs of World War II"a commercial site whose audio links are dead but still has text information
• "Pearl Harbor in Music" linked on the "WWII" page from Michael Barnes' site, Authentic History"
  
• Center for History and New Media site: "That's Why I'm Marching."

• Monday evening film:--"Sands of Iwo Jima" John Wayne's 1949 parable
  

• Tuesday: Steuck Rethinking the Korean War : Part 1 "Origins"
• See Matthew White's map of Korean War
• Of interest:
  
• Korea + 50: No Longer Forgotten (joint Truman and Eisenhower Library site)
  
• U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH) site on Korean War
• Korean war comics from the "Authentic History Center" website
• Cartoon Marines
• War Action comic
  

• Thursday: Steuck: Part 2 "Course"

• Monday evening film: "The Manchurian Candidate" Frank Sinatra as anguished Korean War vet
  

• Tuesday: : Steuck: Part 3 "Broader Issues"
  • Group film bibliography assignment due. See the Annotated Bibliography guide sheet.

• Thursday: Nadel, Alan. "Fuzzy Definition, Poor Resolution: Early Television, The Korean War and the Brainwashed American Mind." From The Legacy of Koea: A 50th Anniversary Conference October 2001.
• Out there on the rim of spin (or is it left field?) with Dr. Livergood
• Review "Lesson Plan: Political Commercials" available at the PBS NewsHour website, then use their handout #1 on logical fallacies to inform your viewing of tv ads available at:
  • Resource: The Living Room Candidate, from the American Museum of the Moving Image.
    

• View one of the movie versions of "The Quiet American"
• Thursday: Graham Greene, The Quiet American
  

• Monday: "Apocalypse Now"

• Tuesday: two popular histories
  • Sheehan, Neil.  “The Funeral.”  In Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Pal Vann and America in Vietnam (New York: Vintage, 1989): 3-33. On e-reserve.
  • Karnow.  “The War Nobody Won,” in Vietnam: A History, 2-59 (skim 41-48)
  • Resource: Vassar College website: "The Wars for Vietnam: 1945-1975"
    
•  Thursday:
  • Karnow, 130 – 221.

XI. (10/30; 11/1)

• Monday: "Flags of our Fathers "

• Tuesday
• Karnow, 222 - 327
• Thursday:
  • Individual war memorial annotated bibliography due. See guide sheet.
  • Karnow, 328-402
    • Notes
      
• Life in pictures: 1963 Madame Nhu
• A sampling of U.S. presidential campaign ads

XII. (11/6; 8)

Monday film viewing--"Good Morning Vietnam"

• Tuesday
• Karnow, 403 - 581
• LBJ Johns-Hopkins "Peace without Conquest" speech, April 7, 1965
• LBJ's "renunciation" speech, March 31, 1968
  

• Thursday
• Essay on war memorials due.
• Karnow, 582 - 684
• XIII. (11/13; 15) Vietnam, "the '60s," and its legacies
• Monday evening film--"Berkeley in the Sixties" documentary (1993)
  • See for background:
    • Free Speech Movement Digital Archive, Bancroft Library
    • 
      
• Tuesday
  • Tischler, Barbara.  "The Antiwar Movement."  In Young, Marilyn, and Robert Buzzanco, ed.  A Companion to the Vietnam War (Blackwell Publishing, 2002): 384-402.
• View as many of these as possible
  • Country Joe McDonald's "F.I.S.H." and "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-die-Rag"; Country Joe's FBI file.
• Selective Service site on the draft
• Woodstock session--"F.I.S.H. song" etc.
• The Sixties Project
• Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project Buffalo State
• View the Bush/Kerry campaign ads and analysis at: Online NewsHour Ad Watch
  
• John Kerry's testimony to Congress, April 22, 1971
• Interview with John Moser on Kerry, the Vietnam Winter Soldier Investigation, and atrocities in Vietnam
  
• Winter Soldier Investigation, Detroit, MI January 31 - February 2, 1971

 

• Thursday--The individual in society

• Speech by Mario Savio, Dec. 2, 1964
• Buress, Charles. "Officer's Refusal of Iraq Deployment Divides Japanese-American Community: The Case of Lt. Watada." On Japan Focus web archive. Also view Michael Honey's video on the Watada case, "A Soldier's Duty," also linked in the Buress article.
• Individual essay exercise: exploration of topic potential, with consideration of existing scholarly and/or contemporary views

• Monday film viewing -- Feature film: “The Green Berets” John Wayne et al..
  
• Tuesday
• Spark, Alasdair.  "The Soldier at the Heart of the War: the Myth of the Green Beret in the Popular Culture of the Vietnam War." Journal of American Studies 18.1 (1984): 29-48.
• Franklin, Bruce. "Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century."  In Young and Buzzanco, Companion, 317-332
• CBS News video archive of Saigon's fall, The Long Last Day
  

Thanksgiving Recess (11/21-25)


XIV. (11/27; 29) Oral presentations of projects—10 minutes each; response in journals.

Monday film viewing--"Letters from Iwojima"

• Drafts due with presentation.
  

XV. Last Class (12/4)

Final Examination: TBA (12/6-13)