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21H.206 American Consumer Culture, Fall 2001
(2001-12)
Examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the "good life" through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. Explores how such things as department stores, advertising, mass-produced cars, and ...
21H.131 America in the Nuclear Age, Fall 2000
(2000-12)
This course examines the American experience at home and abroad from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Cold War. Topics include: America's role as global superpower, foreign and domestic anticommunism, social movements ...
21H.991J / STS.210J Theories and Methods in the Study of History, Fall 2003
(2003-12)
The purpose of this course is to acquaint you with a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century. Most of the books on the list constitute, in my view (and others), modern classics, ...