Syllabus

HIUS 316 | Viewing America

updated: 1/03/08

Viewing America Website:

Required Texts:

Recommended Text:

Required Films:

Getting Started

Week of 1/16 :: Introduction

The Viewing America Website

• Wednesday, we will meet in Wilson 402 for introductory class lecture.
• SECTIONS WILL MEET THE FIRST WEEK. Please come to this introductory section meeting armed with one good, penetrating question about the Viewing America site. During this introductory section meeting, you will meet your TA, meet each other, go through the site, and learn about the Create Your Own Unit (CYOU) project. If you have a network card, please bring your laptop to section.
• All students should report to the locations below.

  SECTION	TA	DAY	TIME	LOCATION
  0101	Mcgee	W	1700-1750	CLM 201
  0102	Mcgee	W	1800-1850	CLM 201
  0103	Mcgee	W	1900-1950	CLM 201
  0104	Alexander	W	1700-1750	CLM 322A
  0105	Alexander	W	1800-1850	CLM 322A
  0106	Alexander	W	1900-1950	CLM 322A
  0107	Moulds	W	1700-1750	CLM 322B
  0108	Moulds	W	1800-1850	CLM 322B

• Getting Started

  Learn more about using the Viewing America website by clicking on the above link. The Getting Started page is a user reference tool that explains the different features of the Viewing America website. It will help student-users navigate the site with ease.

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Unit 1

Week of 1/22 :: National Security

• Film:
  • The Beginning of The End (1957), 76 minutes
    [Video Call Number in Clemons: VHS 10331 (4 copies)]
  • PUBLIC VIEWING IS IN Clemons 201@ 7:00 on Tuesday January 22. Professor Balogh will lead a discussion of the film for those who care to stay after the public viewing. Attendance at the public viewing and discussion after all films is voluntary and not a requirement of the class.
  • YouTube: Pearl Harbor
• Read:
  • Paul Fussel, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (New York: Summit Books, 1988), pp. 14-44, Part I and Part II.
  • **J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of the Atomic Bombs Against Japan (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1997), pp. 1-97.
  • Dr. Seuss War Bond Cartoons

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Unit 2

Week of 1/28 :: Reciprocity Between Citizen and State

• Film:
  • Best Years of Our Lives (1946), 170 Minutes
    [VHS 1469, DVD 01123, LD 3152]
• Read:
  • Please read and view the Digital Roundtable
  • Arthur Schlesinger, The Vital Center, 243-256.
  • Explore the online Unit -- including the Digital Roundtable, Document of the Week, Context, and Archives.

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Unit 3

Week of 2/4 :: Cold War, Warm TV

• Film:
  • Rebel Without A Cause (1955), 111 minutes
    [DVD 01070, LD 1199]
• Read:
  • David Greenberg, Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image, Chapters 1-2.
  • Susan J. Douglas, Chapter 1, "Fractured Fairy Tales," pp. 21-42, in Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media.
  • Stephanie Coontz, Ch. 2, "'Leave it to Beaver’: and ‘Ozzie and Harriet’: American Families in the 1950s," pp. 23-41, in The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap.
  • Explore the online Unit -- including the Document of the Week, Context, and Archives.

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Unit 4

Week of 2/11 :: Kitchen to Kink

• Film:
  • In the Heat of the Night (1967)
    [DVD 01070, LD 1199]
• Read:
  • **Henry Louis Gates, Colored People: A Memoir (New Kork: Knopf, 1994)
  • Explore the online Unit -- including the Document of the Week, Context, and Archives.
• CYOU
  • Oral reports due in section

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Unit 5

Week of 2/18 :: Experts Everywhere

CYOU Executive Summary due in sections.

• Film:
  • Dr. Strangelove (1964), 93 minutes
    [VHS 0166, DVD 01756, DVD 00149, DVD 00302, LD 0816, LD 0275]
• Read:
  • Ellen Herman, Ch. 9, "The Growth Industry," in The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts.
  • Balogh, "Making Pluralism 'Great': Beyond a Recycled History of the Great Society," in Milkis and Mileur, The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005), 145-182.
  • Michael Harrington. The Other America: Poverty in the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1962), Ch. 1 and Ch. 9.
  • Explore the online Unit -- including the Document of the Week, Context, and Archives.

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Unit 6

Week of 2/25 :: Politics and Media

No Readings, No Film, No Sections This Week: Prepare for midterm on Wednesday.

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Midterm: 2/27

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Spring Break

Week of 3/1

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Unit 7

Week of 3/10 :: Power to the People

• Film:
  • Easy Rider (1969), 95 minutes
    [VHS 3002, DVD 01067 (3 copies), and LD 2998]
• Read:
  • Hugh Heclo, "The Sixties False Dawn: Awakenings, Movements, and Postmodern Policy-Making", in Balogh, Integrating the Sixties, 34-63.
  • Terry H. Anderson, The Movement, Ch. 2, pp. 87-130 Ch. 5, pp. 241-292.
  • Explore the online Unit -- including the Digital Roundtable, Document of the Week, Context, and Archives.
  • Port Huron Statement

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Unit 8

Week of 3/17 :: Why Vietnam?

• Film:
  • Coming Home (1978), 130 minutes
    [VHS 5107, LD 1018, and LD 0508]
• Read:
  • Jonathan Schell, The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War (New York: Pantheon, 1987) pp. 3-55. Part I and Part II
  • Balogh, Brian. "From Metaphor to Quagmire: The Domestic Legacy of the Vietnam War," pp 24-55, in Neu, Charles E. After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), Part I and Part II.
  • Robert D. Schulzinger, "';It’s Easy to Win a War on Paper': The United States and Vietnam, 1961-1968," Ch. 6, pp 183 – 218 in Diane B Kunz, ed., The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations in the 1960s.
  • Explore the online Unit -- including the Document of the Week, Context, and Archives.

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Unit 9

Week of 3/24 :: Second Thoughts?

Papers due in sections next week.

• Film:
  • Joe (1970), 107 minutes
    [VHS 5978 (3 copies)]
• Read:
  • **Jerald E. Podair, The Strike that Changed New York.
  • Explore the online Unit -- including the Document of the Week, Context, and Archives.

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Unit 10

Week of 3/31 :: New Agendas

Papers due through Collab at noon(See Course Updates for instructions).

• Film:
  • Silkwood (1983), 131 minutes
    [DVD 01069 (3 copies) and LD 0509]
• Read:
  • Shannon Petersen, “Part II: The Snail Darter,” 37 – 77, in Acting For Endangered Species.
  • Paul Charles Milazzo, Ch. 3, "The Education of an Entrepreneur: Edmund S. Muske and the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution," 61-86, in Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972.
  • Herman, Ch. 10, "The Curious Courtship of Psychology and Women’s Liberation," 276-303.
  • Explore the online Unit: 11 -- including the Document of the Week, Context, and Archives.

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Unit 11

Week of 4/7 :: The New Right

CYOU Reports Due in Section

• Film:
  • Red Dawn (1984), 141 minutes
    [VHS 6590, DVD 01119 (7 copies)]
• Read:
  • Michael Gerson, Ch. 7, "Neoconservatism, Ideas and Consequences," 349-360, in The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars, (New York: Madison Books, 1996).
  • Hugh Heclo, Ch. 1, "Ronald Reagan and the American Public Philosophy," 17-39, and W. Elliot Brownlee and C. Eugene Steurele, Ch. 7, "Taxation," 155-181, in Brownlee and Hugh Davis Graham, The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and Its Legacies, (University Press of Kansas, 2003).
  • Duane M. Oldfield, Ch. 6, "A Voice Within: Grassroots Activism and a Place at the Republican Table,"183-216, in The Right and Righteous: The Christian Rights Confronts the Republican Party (1996).
  • Explore the online Unit: 11 -- including the Document of the Week, Context, and Archives.
• CYOU
  • Oral reports due in section

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Unit 12

Week of 4/14 :: Countering the Counterculture and Ending the Cold War

• Film:
  • Citizen Ruth (1997), 105 minutes
    [LD 3350]
• Read:
  • Mary Ann Glendon, Ch. 4, "The Missing Language Responsibility," and Ch. 5, "The Missing Dimension of Sociality," in Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse (1991).
  • Explore the online Unit -- including the Document of the Week, Context, and Archives.
  • Jon Shields, “In Praise of the Values Voter,” Wilson Quarterly 31, no. 4 (Autumn 2007).
  • William Saletan, Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War (University of California Press, 2003) pp. 1-8; 218-278.
• CYOU
  • Due in section 4/16 : Full project burned onto a CD turn into your T.A.
    • Webmasters should email your CYOU url to Loren Moulds (lsm3n@uva) and give your T.A. a copy of the materials on a CD.
  • You must have the completed CYOU project posted by the morning of Friday, 4/18.
  • Individuals must have voted on their favorite CYOU by midnight of 4/18.

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Unit 13

Week of 4/21 :: 9/11/01 and CYOU

• Schedule:
  • Monday lecture: 9/11/01
  • Wednesday lecture: CYOU Winner
• Read:
  • Based on the CYOU winner.
• Film:
  • Based on the CYOU winner.
• Sections:
  • Section discussions will be based on winning CYOU unit. Each of the two CYOU teams will make a ten minute presentation of their CYOU to the other team.

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Unit 14

Week of 4/28 :: Re-viewing America

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Final Examination

Friday, May 2 :: 0900-1200

• Bring TWO blue books to class

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