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.