MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

HSY2370

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, environmentalists, communists and anticommunists, the Ku-Klux Klan, black nationalists, and the antiwar and counter-culture movements.

Assessment Short paper (1000 words): 20% + Long essay (3000 words): 40% + 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: Recollections of political repression in America U California P
• Steinbeck J The grapes of wrath 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: 1945-1990 Harper Collins
• Walters R American reformers 1815-1860Hill and Wang