MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

AST2100

Dissent in American society

Ian Mylchreest

Synopsis This subject will examine religious, political, and cultural dissent as ideology and practice in the United States from the 1600s to the late twentieth century. Topics will include evangelicals and fundamentalists, revolutionaries, socialists, communists and anticommunists, environmentalists, the Ku Klux Klan, black nationalists, and the antiwar and counter culture movements.

Assessment Written (4000 words): 60% + Examination (2 hours): 40%

Prescribed texts

• Bennett D The party of fear UNCP
• Haley A The autobiography of Malcolm X Penguin
• Moore R L Religious outsiders and the making of Americans OUP
• Schultz B and Schultz R It did happen here U California P
• Steinbeck J The grapes of wrath Penguin
• Stowe H B Uncle Tom's cabin Penguin
• Thoreau H D Walden and civil disobedience Penguin
• Twain M A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Penguin

Recommended reading

• Brinkley A Voices of protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression Random House
• Gitlin T Years of hope, days of rage Random House
• Navasky V Naming names Riverrun Press
• Salvatore N Eugene Debs: Citizen and socialist U Illinois P
• Young M B The Vietnam Wars: 1945-1900 Harper Collins
• Walters R American reformers 1815-1860 Hill and Wang