Courses: Topics in American History-Cold War Political Culture
(HISTB303001) Class Number: 1299 This is a topics course. Course
content varies. Recent topics have included medicine,
advertising, and history of sexuality. Div: I or III; Haverford:
Social Science (SO) Current topic description: In the twenty
years following World War II, Americans were faced with
unexpected fears and anxieties. Despite the emergence of
American as a superpower, Americans became deeply paranoid and
insecure. Most famous as the era of McCarthy persecutions, Cold
War political culture also produced the Civil Rights Movement,
debates over the role of the individual and the state, critiques
of conformity, and challenges to social status quo through
personal politics and cultural revolutions in multiple arenas.
This course will focus on the ways in which Cold War political
culture offered a fundamentally new and profoundly influential
paradigm for modern American life. Fulfills: Class Nbr: 1299
Div: I or III; SO Bryn Mawr, CARP13