二十世紀美國史專題
主講者:張四德 9909
一、 教學目標
本課程為專題討論,增進學生對於二十世紀以來美國史上的重要議題的 認知及史學思潮,以培養歷史思維及其史學。
二、 課程大綱:
本課程針對美國二十世紀所發生的重大事件,做專題討論;同時輔以史學 思想及影視專題討論。
目前所擬議題如下:
1. the Progressive Movement and the progressive historians: Frederick Turner, Charles Beard, V. Parington
2. World War I and U.S.: Isolation or not
3. the U.S. in 1920s: the lost generation (Ten Commandment)
4. the Great Depression and the New Deal; Eliot Morrison and Builders of the Bay Colony(1930)
5. World War II: the War and films (the Pearl Harbor…) 6. the U.S. in the Cold War Era: Consensus
7. the Reform and the Rebellion in 1960s ( Who comes for dinner…)
8. the U.S. and the Vietnam War: John C. Rowe and Rick Berg, the Vietnam War and American Culture.( Good Morning, Vietnam)
9. the Revival of Conservatism
10. the Post-Cold War World and the rise of public history: Jonathan Spence; the Question of Hu
三、成績計算方式
開學最初兩週,由教師將二十世紀美國歷史的發展做一概論性綜合分析,
每個學生須就自己的興趣,依序報告。最後兩週學生將以所選擇主題,做 較深入完整的研究。期末繳交報告一份。學期成績以平日上課表現及學期報
告為評量標準,各佔50%。
四、參考資料
1. Nash, Gary B., & Jeffrey, Julie Roy, eds., The American People Volume Two:
Since 1865. (2004)
2. Baker, Jean H., ed., Votes for Women: Struggle for Suffrage Revisited. (2002) 3. Cannolly, James J., The triumph of Ethnic Progressivism. (1998)
4. Ferguson, Nial, The Pity of War (1998)
5. Farewell, Byron, Over There: The United States in the Great War (1999)
6. Crunden, Robert M., Body and Soul: The Making of American Modernism. (2000) 7. Baldwin, Neil, Henry Ford and Jews: The Mass Production of Hate. (2001) 8. White, G., Edward, The Constitution and the New Deal. (2000)
9. Kennedy, David M., Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War. (1999)
10. Starr, Kevin, Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950. (2002) 11. Kryder, Daniel, Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II. (2002)
12. Winkler, Allan M., The Cold War: A History in Documents. (2000)
13. Dudziak, Mary L., Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. (2000)
14. Perret, Geoffrey, Jack: A Life Like No Others. (2001)
15. Perlstein, Rick, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. (2001)
16. Kimball, Jeffrey P., Nixon’s Vietnam War. (1998)
17. Reeves, Richard, President Nixon: Alone in the White House. (2001)
18. Daniels, Roger, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, revised edition. (2002)
19. Zia, Helen, Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People.
(2000)
20. Collins, Robert M., More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America.
(2000)
21. Rising, George, The Republican Ascendancy: American Politics, 1968-2001.
(2002)
Samuel Hutington, Who are we?
*本書目依上課主題列出近十年重要書籍.