1/11 For or the pay-productivity gap, click here. List of names pertaining to the New Deal, click here.
1/18 For data on productivity by decade, click here. For FDR's 1944 State of the Union address, click here (from 23.45).
1/25 For a list of names pertaining to the lectures on the 1940s, click here.
2/1 For data on US income inequaliy, click here. For the 1964 "Daisy" commercial, click here.
2/6 For the 1964 "Daisy" commercial, click here. For data on rates of profit, click here. For data on inflation, click here. 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.
2/8 Obfuscation and book titles, click here and here. How not to write: "Show, Don't Tell." For instructions for the first midterm exam (a take-home paper), click here.
2/13 For the video of Eisenhower's Farewell Address, click here (6:50). For a promotional video on psychological operations by the military, "PsyWar," click here. For a CIA video on identity politics, click here. For the film Dr. Strangelove, click here, and here; and the folk song about nuclear war, "We Will All Go Together When We Go," 1959.
2/15 3 economic schools of thought, click here. For a video on antiwar music, click here.
2/20 For Chinatown (1974), click here. For The Godfather, click here. For clips from Dr. Strangelove, click here and here.
3/14 For fictionalization of NYC fiscal crisis, click here.
3/21 For data on inflation, 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.
3/28 For names pertaining to the Christian Right and culture wars, click here.
4/2 For a CIA video on identity politics, click here. For a humorous depiction of identity politics, click here. For a survey of political ideologies, click here (pp. 142-143). 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.
4/4 For the Carter-Reagan debate 1980, click here (view 1.30-1:32).
4/9 For a video on the 1984 election, click here. For a video on Nina Turner, click here.
4/11 For instructions on the third midterm, click here.
4/12 Link to video on propaganda pertaining to the First Gulf War, click here. For a video on Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, click here. On 1990 US-Russia agreement, click here. For 1996 Time magazine cover on Russia, click here.
425 For racial wage gap from 1940 click here. Rates of unionization from 1983, click here. For number of US billionaires from 1990, click here. For Merle Haggard anti-war video, click here.
On the racial wage gap, click here.
