Term	Week	Lecture	Seminars
Autumn	1	Introductory Lecture
	2	The Twenties	Rhetoric vs Reality
	3	The Great Depression	The Great Depression
	4	The New Deal	The New Deal
	5	Jim Crow in America, 1919-1954	Discrimination in America
	6	~ Reading Week: No Lecture or Seminar ~
	7	“A ship that will not and cannot be sunk”: The US in WWII	America at War
	8	US Foreign Policy, 1945-1960	American Foreign Policy
	9	'The American Century'	The 'Long' Fifties
	10	McCarthyism: Communism and Anti-Communism	Anti-Communism
Spring	1	Kennedy: The Cold War and the Fight for Hearts and Minds, 1960-1963	The Kennedy Administration
	2	'Liberalism's High Noon?' Lyndon Johnson and the 'Great Society’	The 'Great Society' and the Problem of American Liberalism
	3	The US Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (RF)	Discrimination in America For more resources, see also: Race Relations and Black Power
	4	The Vietnam War (RF)	Vietnam and Johnson
	5	Vietnam and the Home Front: The Student Movement and the New Left' (RF)	Vietnam : the antiwar movement and the New Left For more resources, see also Rebels With a Cause
	6	~ Reading Week: No Lecture or Seminar ~
	7	'When it all came crashing down': The Counterculture and the Music of the 1960s	Music  For more resources, see also The New Left and Counterculture
	8	American Woman: Women’s America and Women’s Rights	Women's America
	9	Resurgence: The Rise of the Right, 1960-1975	The Conservative Movement For more resources, see also: 1970s America
	10	Nixon and Watergate	Nixon
Summer
	1	Lecture: Module Review	Mock Exam (optional) Click the link for the practise question, and complete it under exam conditions in your own time (1hr, no interuptions, no resources). Seminar will consist of a revision session, focusing on key themes, 1920-45
	2	Lecture: Exam advice	Mock Exam Review  We will run through the mark scheme and you can mark your practise papers. We will consider key themes post 1945
	3	Bank Holiday. No lecture.	I will be in my office during seminar times, and will answer any questions on a one-to-one basis.

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