1/16 For or the pay-productivity gap, click here.
1/21 List of names pertaining to the New Deal, click here. Unemployment rate, click here. For data on productivity by decade, click here.
1/23 For FDR's 1944 State of the Union address, click here (from 23.45). For a list of names pertaining to the lectures on the 1940s, click here.
1/30 For data on US income inequality, click here. For the video of Eisenhower's Farewell Address, click here (6:50).
2/4 3 economic schools of thought, click here. For data on rates of profit, click here.
2/6 For the 1964 "Daisy" commercial, click here. For data on inflation, click here. For a list of names from the 1950s and 1960s, click here.
2/11 For the essay, "What are the Connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein?" click here. Rules for writing papers, click here. On students' writing mistakes, click here. Obfuscation and book titles, click here and here. How not to write: "Show, Don't Tell."
2/13 For take-home midterm instructions, click here. Make sure your hard copy papers is within the 600-800 word limit, with word count noted at bottom of paper. All papers must be STAPLED together (no paper clips). And due to noted concerns about AI, you must include only information gleaned from lectures and use no other sources. I will not accept papers that do not meet these requirements. Turn in completed papers in class on February 20, one week from today.
2/18 For a list of names pertaining to the Vietnam War, click here. For Chinatown (1974), click here and here. For The Godfather, Part 1, click here; The Godfather, Part 2, click here. For antiwar music ("Country Joe"), click here.
2/20 For a list of names from the 1970s, click here.
2/25 For fictionalization of NYC fiscal crisis, click here. For a graph of global GDP growth, click here. For BBC interview with Paul Weyrich, click here (48:00). Okie from Muskogee, click here. For list of names pertaining to the culture wars of the 1970s, click here.
2/27 For a video on Nina Turner, click here.
3/4 Poll on Ukraine war, click here. Cold War era movies about nuclear war: On the Beach, 1959 (1:53 minutes); Fail Safe, 1963; Dr. Strangelove, 1963; The Day After, 1983 (43:30). And the folk song about nuclear war, "We Will All Go Together When We Go," 1959.
3/18 For a list of names on the Carter period, click here. For a video of Carter's 1971 speech, click here. For a table of unemployment data, click here. For a table on inflation, click here.
3/20 For the Carter-Reagan debate 1980, click here (view 1.30-1:32).
3/25 For a list of names pertaining to the Reagan presidency, click here. For a video on the 1984 election, click here. For a short documentary on suicide and the farm crisis of the 1980s, click here.
2/27 For a list of names pertaining to foreign policy events of the 1970s, click here. For data on military spending during/after Vietnam War, click here. For a video on antiwar music, click here. Daniel Ellsberg in film Hearts and Minds, click here (minute 117). For a scene from The Godfather, Part 1, click here. For a scene from The Godfather, Part 2, click here. For an interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan, click here.
4/8 For a list of names pertaining to the rise of US power, click here.
4/10 For a list of terms pertaining to international economics, click here.
4/15 For a list of terms pertaining to US economic hegemony, click here.
4/17 For a list of names pertaining to financial crises in the 1960s, click here.
4/22 End of Bretton Woods, click here.
4/24 The 1970s Energy Crisis, click here.