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Unit Introduction Emerging from Depression and War Forging the Crabgrass Frontier Forging the Crabgrass Frontier Forging the Crabgrass Frontier
Topic Liberalism and Conservatism before the Wars From Economics to Law: Changing Minds Creating the Modern American City Legislating the Suburban Dream
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Cant We All Just Get Along?: Legal Process and Consensus History in Pleasantville, USA Legal Action, Brown, and Massive Resistance Supreme Court Superstar! Law and Lawlessness I: Civil Rights Law and Lawlessness: Civil Disobedience
Readings No readings Begin reading Pells, The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1985): 52-116. Richard H. Pells, The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1985): 52116. Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996): 3-123. Lizabeth Cohen, From Town Square to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America, American Historical Review 101 (Oct. 1996): 1050-1081. Karen Brodkin Sacks, How Did Jews Become White Folks? in Race, eds. Steven Gregory & Roger Sanjek (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994): 78-102. Laura Kalman, The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996): 13-59
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Forging the Crabgrass Frontier The Long 1960s The Long 1960s
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
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Morton Horwitz, The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice (New York: Hill & Wang, 1998). Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988): 412-91. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, in Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice, ed. Hugo Adam Bedau (New York: Pegasus, 1969): 72-89.
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The Long 1960s Paper Writing Workshop The Long 1960s
Redefining America through Immigration No lecture Creating Poverty
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The Long 1960s The Long 1960s The Long 1960s
Fighting Poverty: Law, Legislation, and Liberalism The Lawyer as Hero: From Civil Rights to Poverty But Dont Talk About Revolution; Thats Going a Little Bit Too Far.
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The Lawyer as Anti-Hero, the Law as Villain
Harrison Tweed, Bernard G. Segal, and Herbert L. Packer, Civil Rights and Disobedience to Law, in Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice, 90-97 William L. Taylor, Civil Disobedience: Observations on the Strategies of Protest, in Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice, 98-105. Louis Waldman, Civil RightsYes: Civil DisobedienceNo (A Reply to Dr. Martin Luther King), in Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice, 106-115. David M. Reimers, Still the Golden Door, 2nd ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992): 61-122. No reading assignment (first paper due Monday, 10/20) Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996): 181-229; 259-71. Lemann, Nicholas The Promised Land (New York: Vintage, 1991): pp. 111-181. Martha Davis, Brutal Need (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993): 1-55. Alice Echols, Nothing Distant About It: Womens Liberation and Sixties Radicalism, in The Sixties: From Memory to History, ed. David Farber (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1994): 149-174. Jerold Auerbach, The Disintegration of Legal Authority, in Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976): 263-306. Kenneth Cloke, Law is Illegal, in Radical Lawyers, ed. Jonathan Black (New York: Avon Books, 1971): 27-43. Michael E. Tigar, Beyond Civil Liberties, in Radical Lawyers, pp. 43-51. Walter Schneir, Desanctifying the Courts, in Radical Lawyers, pp. 297-301. Robert Lefcourt, Law Against the People, in Law Against the People: Essays to Demystify Law, Order, and the Courts, ed. Robert Lefcourt (New York: Random House, 1971): 21-37.
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Law and Lawlessness III: Riots and Crime Control The Rise of Conservatism
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Veterans Day This aint no disco
No Class Law, Crime, and Culture
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Religion
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Death and Taxes (or, at least, death)
Against the People: Essays to Demystify Law, Order, and the Courts, ed. Robert Lefcourt (New York: Random House, 1971): 21-37. Ann M. Garfinkle et al., Womens Servitude Under Law, in Law Against the People, pp. 103-122. Robert Lefcourt, Lawyers for the Poor Cant Win, in Law Against the People, pp. 123-139. Gerald Lefcourt, The Radical Lawyer Under Attack, in Law Against the People, pp. 253-266. The Kerner Report: The 1968 Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (New York: Pantheon Books, 1988): 1-34. Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics, 2nd ed. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2000): 324-370. No readings Bruce J. Schulman, This Aint No Foolin Around: Rebellion & Authority in Seventies Popular Culture, in The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2001): 144-158. Death Wish, dir. Brian Garfield, 93 min., Paramount Pictures, 1974 (1980), DVD. Michael Lienesch, Right-Wing Religion: Christian Conservatism as a Political Movement, Political Science Quarterly 97 (Autumn 1982): 403-425. Bruce J. Schulman, The Minutemen are Turning in Their Graves: The New Right and the Tax Revolt, in The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2001): 193217.
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States Rights and Federalism
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Thanksgiving Boston Public Boston Public Boston Public Conclusion
No Class The Courts and Busing What Liberal Consensus The Way We Live Now
No readings J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground (New York: Vintage, 1985). J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground (New York: Vintage, 1985). J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground (New York: Vintage, 1985). No readings