HIST225

This course will be a multi-media study of America during the 1950s. We will use as our primary materials music (pop and the birth of rock), TV (Berle and Lucy), movies (Dean and Brando), Literature (Kerouac, Sloan Wilson, and Baldwin), art (Hopper and Pollock), history and other disciplines. The 1950s set the necessary scene for the social revolutions of the 1960s and we will examine the formative stages of that most vibrant period. The course will make extensive use of the Internet.