Vorlesung: The United States Between the Two World Wars

Final Examination Study Guide  (posted June 29, 2005)

This syllabus is also posted on the course website located at:
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~lindenme/USBW

Documents---Lecture topics and Indentifications

Prof. Dr. Kriste Lindenmeyer
Fulbright Gastprofessorin für Amerikastudien
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

This course surveys U.S. political, social, cultural, and economic history in the years between the twentieth
century's two world wars. The primary objective is to encourage students to ask and answer questions about
the varied cultures and ideas contributing to the development of the United States in this important period.
Politics, economics, class, ethnicity, race, gender, and age are all factors that helped to shape the experiences
of Americans living in the United States during these years. The course will also look at foreign relations and
and their influence on the events that followed this volatile period in U.S. history.

This course is primarily arranged both topically and chronologically. II have placed a number of books on reserve
in the library that will provide  background information and more details on the topics discussed in class.

Additional reading materials, etc. will be posted on the course website throughout the semester.
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~lindenme/USBW

I have also requested the following books be put on reserve in the library. A few may have not arrived yet,
but they should all be there soon.

Semesterapparate:
Badger, Anthony J. The New Deal : The Depression years, 1933 - 40
    Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1998.
Best, Gary Dean. The Nickel and Dime Decade : American Popular Culture During the 1930s.
    Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1993.
Conkin, Paul K. The New Deal. Wheeling, Illinois: Davidson, 1992.
Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932 - 1945. Oxford, 1995.
Hosen, Frederick E. The Great Depression and the New Deal : Legislative Acts in Their Entirety (1932 - 1933)
     and Statistical Economic Data (1926 - 1946). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1992.
Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Harlem Renaissance.
Kobler, John. Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. 1st Da Capo Press ed. - New York :
    Da Capo Press, 1993.
Leuchtenberg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal : 1932 - 1940. New York: Harper and
    Row, 1995.
Maney, Patrick J. The Roosevelt Presence : A Biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
    New York: Twayne, 1992.
McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression : America, 1929 - 1941 New York, NY : Times Books, 1993.
Muscio, Giuliana. Hollywood's New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.
Schlessinger, Arthur C. The Age of Roosevelt. London; Heinemann, 1960.
Smulyan, Susan. Selling Radio; The Commercialization of American Broadcasting 1920-1934.
    Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.
Walch, Timothy. Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt : A Documentary History. Greenwood, 1998.

**Students may not miss more than two classes if they wish to earn participation credit for this course. I will take attendance at the beginning of each class meeting. Students who want to earn IKEAS credit must also pass a written examination for the course. This exam will be given on the last day of class in July.