Courses:

America in Depression and War >> Content Detail



Study Materials



Readings

Amazon logo Help support MIT OpenCourseWare by shopping at Amazon.com! MIT OpenCourseWare offers direct links to Amazon.com to purchase the books cited in this course. Click on the Amazon logo to the left of any citation and purchase the book from Amazon.com, and MIT OpenCourseWare will receive up to 10% of all purchases you make. Your support will enable MIT to continue offering open access to MIT courses.

Readings will come from the following books:

Amazon logo John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash, 1929. Boston. MA: Mariner Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780395859995.

Amazon logo Robert McElvaine, Down and Out in the Great Depression. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780807840993.

Amazon logo Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest. 1st ed. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1983. ISBN: 9780394716282.

Amazon logo Studs Terkel, The Good War. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1984. ISBN: 9780394531038.

Amazon logo John Morton Blum, V Was For Victory. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. ISBN: 9780151940806.

Amazon logo John Dower, War Without Mercy. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1987. ISBN: 9780394751726.

Amazon logo Richard Polenberg, The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Boston, MA: Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2000. ISBN: 9780312133108.

Note: Page numbers listed in the table below may not match the exact editions of the books listed above.

Ses #TopicsReadings
1Introduction: From Breadlines to Atom Bombs
Part One: The Great Depression
2The End of ProsperityGalbraith, 1-42, 66-143, 168-194
3The UnemployedMcElvaine, pp. 33-120
Part Two: New Deal
4Roosevelt's 100 DaysBrinkley, pp. 3-142; Polenberg, 1-1,2
5Strikes and StrugglesMcElvaine, pp. 121-229; Polenberg, 2-3; 4
6New Deal OrderBrinkley, pp. 143-268; Polenberg, 1-3,4,5; 2-1,2,4,5; 5
Part Three: World War II at Home
7From Isolationism to Pearl HarborBlum, pp. 3-14; Terkel, pp. 19-37
8Mobilizing for VictoryBlum, pp. 15-52, 90-146; Terkel, pp. 301-342; Polenberg, 8
9Gender and Race in WartimeBlum, pp. 184-220; Dower, pp. 3-32; Terkel, pp. 108-125; 135-165; Polenberg, 6-4, 9-1,2,3,6,7,8
Part Four: World War II Abroad
10D-DayBlum, 53-89; Terkel, pp. 36-55, 95-104, 163-193, 251-290
11HiroshimaDower, pp. 33-93, 118-146, 293-301; Terkel, pp. 59-66, 69-79, 85-97, 505-530, 545-55
12Conclusion: Legacies for Postwar AmericaBlum, pp. 221-340; Polenberg, 9-9
13Final Exam

 








© 2010-2021 OpenCollege.com, All Rights Reserved.
Open College is a service mark of AmeriCareers LLC.