Class attendance:                              10%

Short Writing Assignment:                 10%

Discussion Board (SOCS):                 10%

Papers (2@15%):                              30%

In-Class Discussion:                           10%

Final Exam:                                        30%

Required Books can be purchased at the TCNJ’s Book Store.

Peter Bergen, Holy War, Inc.

Thomas Borstelman, The Cold War and Civil Rights

Walter McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth

Larry May (Editor), Recasting America : Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War

Additional Readings are marked as the following ***. These readings are mandatory and can be found on reserve at TCNJ’s library or downloaded in PDF form from the library website at: http://www.tcnj.edu/~library/research/tips/reserve.html.  If you download the readings, the assignments are listed by course and/or professor.  The Professor reserves the right to add or subtract readings and assignment from the syllabus.

A textbook has been placed on reserve at the campus library for your convenience: Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War.

 IMPORTANT NOTES:

Academic Integrity:

Any instances of cheating will be reported to the appropriate Academic Integrity Officer and adjudicated in accordance with College policy.  Please review The College of New Jersey’s policy on Academic Integrity, available online at http://www.tcnj.edu/%7Ebulletin/academicRegulations.html#adademicHonesty.   If you have any questions, please speak to me.

Late Assignments:

Late papers will be penalized 1/3 of a grade (e.g. from a B to a B-, or from an A- to a B+) per late day.  The weekend, from Friday to Monday, counts as one day.  If you miss an exam and do not have a verifiable excuse, you will be assessed an “F”.

Class Assignments:

Week One: 8/26-8/29

Class:
Read
***Francis Fukuyama, “End of History,” The National Interest (1989)
***Thomas McCormick, “Seeking Supremacy: The Historical Origins of American Hegemony, 1985-1945" America’s Half Century [17-42]

Week Two: 9/2-9/5
Class: (TUESDAY CLASS!!!)
Read: May, Chapter 1
***Anders Stephanson, “On Ideology,” Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy (266-73)

Class:
Read: May, Chapter 2
***Frank Costiglio, “‘Unceasing Pressure For Penetration:’ Gender, Pathology, and Emotion in George Kennan’s Formation of the Cold War,” Journal of American History Vol 83 (March 1997).
Short Writing Assignment Due
Begin reading McDougall

Week Three: 9/9-9/12
Class:
Read:
***Stephen Whitfield, “Politicizing Culture: Suspicious Minds,” The Culture of the Cold War. [1-25]
Primary Document: NSC68, in Ernest May, American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting the NSC 68, [23-33, 71-81]

Class:
Read: May, Chapter, 3
***Michael McGuire, “National Security and Soviet Foreign Policy,” Melvyn Leffler and David Painter, eds., Origins of the Cold War. [53-75]

Week Four: 9/16-9/19
Class:
Read
***Stephan McFarland, “The Iranian Crisis of 1946 and the Onset of the Cold War,” Melvyn Leffler and David Painter, eds., Origins of the Cold War. [239-254]        

Class:
Read: May, Chapter, 4

Week Five: 9/23-9/26
Class: May, Chapter 5
Read
Primary Document: Executive Order 9835, Loyalty-Security Program and Cases, in Ellen Schrecker, The Age of McCarthyism,[150-164]

Class:
Read: May, Chapter 8
***Read: Emily Rosenberg, “Consuming Women,” Diplomatic History Summer 1999.

Week Six: 9/30-10/3
Class:
Read:
***“Negotiating Cold War Paradise,” Diplomatic History (Spring 2001)
Begin Reading Bortstelman

Class: May, Chapter, 7
Primary Document: Senator Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virgina, in Ellen Schrecker, The Age of McCarthyism, [210-216]
Paper I Due
Discuss McDougall

Week Seven:10/7-10/10
Class:
Read: May, Chapter 9
***Robert Dean, “Masculinity as Ideology: John F. Kennedy and the Domestic Politics of Foreign Policy.” Diplomatic History Vol 22 (Winter 1998).

Class:
Read:
***Van Gosse, “We are all highly adventurous: Fidel Castro and the Romance of the white Guerilla, 1945-1958.”, Christain Appy ed., Cold War Constructions. (238-256)

Week Eight: 10/14-10/17
Class:
Read:
***Mark Bradley, “Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Culture, Diplomacy, and the Origins of the Cold War in Vietnam,” Christain Appy ed., Cold War Constructions. (11-34)

Class:
Read: May, Chapter, 11

Week Nine: 10/21-10/24
Class: Mid-Semester Break—No Class
Read:

Class:
Read:
***Michael Hunt and Steven Levine, “Revolutionary Movements in Asia and the Cold War.” Melvyn Leffler and David Painter, eds., Origins of the Cold War. [257-272]

Week Ten: 10/28-10/31
Class:
Read: May, Chapter 13
Discuss Borstelman

Class:
Read:
***Read: Michael Hogan, “ Foreign Policy, Partisan Politics, and the End of the Cold War,” in The End of the Cold War ed., Michael Hogan.

Week Eleven: 11/4-11/7
Class:
Read: May, Chapter  12
***Stephen Whitfield, “Thawing:A Substitute for Victory,” The Culture of the Cold War. [205-230]
Begin Reading Bergen

Class:
Read:
***Read: Richard Pells “Who’s Afraid of Steven Spielberg?” Diplomatic History Summer 2000

Week Twelve: 11/11-11/14
Class:
Read:
***Noam Chomsky, “A View From Below,”  Michael Hogan ed., The End of the Cold War. [137-150]

Class:
Read:

Week Thirteen: 11/18-11/21
Class:
Read: May, Chapter 14
***Walter Lefeber, “An End to which Cold War?”  Michael Hogan ed., The End of the Cold War. [13-19]

Class:
Read:

Week Fourteen: 11/25-11/28
Class:
Read:

Class: Thanksgiving Break—No Class
Read:
***Read: Bruce Cummings, “The Wicked Witch of the West is Dead.  Long Live the Wicked Witch of the East,” in The End of the Cold War ed., Michael Hogan.

Week Fifteen 12/2-12/5
Class:
Read:
Paper II Due

Class:
Read:

Week Sixteen: 12/9
Read: Last Class
Primary Document: USA Patriot Act (2001)

Final exam-TBA