1/16

Introduction

 1/18

 Lecture: Reactionary Populism?

Discussion: Lichtman, Introduction

Reading: Lichtman, Introduction

1/23

Lecture: Business Conservatism

Workshop: Taking Notes in Secondary Sources

Reading: Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, 1-182

1/25

Discussion: Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, 1-182

1/30

Lecture: The Conservative Underworld

Workshop: Writing Effective Paragraphs

Discussion: Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, 184-329

Reading: Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, 184-329

2/1

Discussion: The Conservative Sixties

Reading: 

Perlstein, Before the Storm, “Introduction”

Roche, “LBJ and the Conservative Movement”

2/6

 Lecture: The Conservative Movement from Reagan to W

Discussion: The Pros Take Over

Reading: Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, 330-456

Due: Book Summary – Lichtman, White Protestant Nation

2/8

 Lecture: Rick Perlstein “The Tea Parties Now”

Discussion: Who Are These People?

2/13

Discussion: MacLean, Democracy in Chains

Reading: MacLean, Democracy in Chains

 2/15

Discussion: MacLean, Democracy in Chains

Reading: MacLean, Democracy in Chains

Due: MacLean, Democracy in Chains Summary

2/20

Lecture: Barry Goldwater as Western Hero

Workshop: Note Taking in Primary Sources

Discussion: Themes and Ideas of Goldwater and Hoover. How and why are they conservative heroes?

Reading: Perlstein, Before the Storm, Part One 3-98

Reading Primary: Goldwater, Conscience of a Conservative or Why Not Victory?

Hoover, Masters of Deceit

 2/22

Discussion: The Conservative Mind

Due: Notes Goldwater and Hoover

2/27

 Lecture: The Alternative Right-Wing Media

Reading:

Perlstein, Before the Storm, Book Two, 99-246

Reading Primary: Smoot, The Invisible Government

Primary Media:

Dan Smoot Report

Philbrick, What We Can Do (about Communism)

Make Mine Freedom

Meet King Joe

 3/1

Discussion: How the Conservative Media Makes Its Arguments

Due: Notes Smoot and Media

 3/6

Discussion: The World of Welch, Schwarz, and Stormer

Reading: Welch, The Politician

Schwarz, “The Recruiting of a Communist”

 Stormer, None Dare Call It Treason

Perlstein, Before the Storm, Book Three, 247-408

 3/8

Discussion: The World of Welch, Schwarz, and Stormer

Reading: Welch, Schwarz, and Stormer

Due: Notes Welch, Schwarz, and Stormer

 3/27

Lecture: The Takeover of the GOP

Workshop: Notes to Themes to Sections to Outline

Reading: Haley, A Texan Looks at Lyndon

Schlafly, A Choice Not an Echo

Perlstein, Before the Storm, Book Four, 409-516

Due: Perlstein, Before the Storm Summary

 3/29

Workshop: Outline to Rough Draft

Discussion: The Grass-Roots and the 1964 Election

Due: Notes, Haley and Schlafly

Due: Outline

 4/3

Lecture: The Religious Right

Discussion: The Religious Right

Reading:

Skousen, The Naked Communist

Hargis, The Facts about Communism and Our Churches

FBI File, Letters about NCC

Due: First Draft

 4/5

Discussion: The Religious Right in the 1960s

Due: Notes, Notes Skousen, Hargis, Noebel, NCC Letters

 4/10

Lecture: The Consensus

Discussion: History and Historiography: Historians as Historical Subjects

Reading:

Hofstadter, “Pseudo Conservatism”

Suall, The Ultras

McEvoy, “Goldwater Supporters”

 4/12

Workshop: Revising (Argument)

Discussion: What to do with new information.

Due: Notes, Hofstadter, Suall, and Schoenberg

4/17

Discussion: Robin, The Reactionary Mind

Reading: Robin, The Reactionary Mind

Due: Second Draft

4/19

Discussion: Student Papers :

Fraser

Scherson

Kelly

 4/24

Cobb

Ricoy

Horn

Hansel

 4/26

Discussion: Student Papers:

Hancock

Zimmerman

Naser

Cohen

 5/1

Workshop: Revising (Style)

Discussion: Student Papers:

Gore

McKone

Pritchard

Lyons

 5/3

Discussion: Student Papers:

Palmer

Hill

Denbeaux

Dunning

Due: Friday (5/4) Final Draft