Readings for the Teaching American History Summer Institute, June 20-24, 2011
Dear Participants,
You have already been assigned the book, By the Bomb’s Early Light:American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Paul Boyer. Please do not regard the selections that follow as comprehensive for this summer’s topic of “American Wars in Historical Memory.” Rather, these additional readings provide a skeletal framework within which our lectures and discussions will take place. Although our specialists may not refer directly to any one or more of the documents, these readings reflect postures, principles, and policies prevalent in the United States over nearly the last century of the American experience.
Additional Reading List
[ STAN SCHULTZ LECTURE]
- Stephen G. Hyslop, “How the West was Spun—Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Shows,” American History (August 2008) and see also the link to his “The Original Reality Show—Buffalo Bill’s Extravagances” referenced at the conclusion of his short piece; find both at http://www.historynet.com/how-the-west-was-spun-buffalo-bill-codys-wild-west-show.htm
- Anne C. Rose, “From War Narratives to Autobiography.” in her Victorian America and the Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 1992), pgs. 245-255 [ DOWNLOAD AS PDF ]
[ JENNIFER RATNER-ROSENHAGEN LECTURE]
- Edward L. Ayers, “Worrying About the Civil War,” in Moral Problems in American Life, Karen Halttunen and Lewis Perry, eds. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998), 145-66. [DOWNLOAD AS PDF]
- Erika Doss, “Introduction” and “Fear: Terrorism Memorials and Security Narratives,” in Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 1-15; 117-85. [DOWNLOAD AS PDF]
[JOHN COOPER LECTURE]
- Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford University Press, 2000, read selectively the sections that interest you. [DOWNLOAD AS PDF]
[JEREMI SURI LECTURE]
- “The United States in Asia: Historical Lessons of Wars in Korea and Vietnam” Selections from American Foreign Relations Since 1898: A Documentary Reader DOWNLOAD AS PDF
[JOHN HALL LECTURE]
- David Ryan, “Vietnam in the American Mind: Narratives of the Nation and the Sources of Collective Memory,” in Cultural Memory and Multiple Identities, eds. Rüdiger Kunow, Wilfried Raussert (2008). DOWNLOAD AS PDF
[JIM BAUGHMAN LECTURE]
- David W. Blight, Race & Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, pp. 381-97. DOWNLOAD AS PDF
- Gloria Emerson, Winners & Losers; Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War, pp. 137-89. DOWNLOAD AS PDF
- Peter C. Rollins, “Victory at Sea: Cold War Epic,” in Television Histories, eds. Gary R. Edgerton and Peter C. Rollins, pp. 103-122 DOWNLOAD AS PDF
[ DONALD DOWNS LECTURE]
- Thomas E. Ricks, “The Widening Gap between the Military and Society,” Atlantic Monthly, July 1997: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97jul/milisoc.htm
- Eliot A. Cohen, “Twilight of the Citizen-Soldier,” 31 Parameters (Summer 2001): < http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IBR/is_2_31/ai_76496206/ >
- Ronald R. Krebs, “The Citizen-Soldier Tradition in the United States: Has Its Demise Been Greatly Exaggerated?” 36 Armed Forces and Society (2009): http://afs.sagepub.com/content/early/2009/08/11/0095327X09337370
- Arthur T. Coumbe, “Why ROTC? The Debate over Collegiate Military Training, 1969-1973,” Air & Space Power Journal-Chronicles on Line Journal, 1999: http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/coumbe.html
[WILLIAM TISHLER LECTURE]
- Rudolf Arnheim, “A Forecast of Television,” in Film as Art, (University of California Press, 1975), pp. 188-198 DOWNLOAD AS PDF
[VENEESA COOK LECTURE]
- The Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society (1962) < http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/huron.html >
