Edmund S. Muskie Scholars Program in
History, Politics, and Government
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
June 20 - July 2, 2004
Syllabus
Faculty:
Chris Babbidge, chair, Social Studies Department, Kennebunk High School, Kennebunk, Maine
Chris Beam, director, Muskie Scholars Program; archivist, Muskie Archives and Special
Collections Library; and lecturer in history, Bates College
Ann Cohen, teacher, Social Studies Department, Morse High School, Bath, Maine
Residential coordinators:
Joel Anderson (Bates ’05), Wilson House, 28 Frye Street
Natasha Mayet (Bates ‘07), Wilson House, 28 Frye Street
Guest lecturers and speakers:
Richard Barringer, professor of public policy and management, Edmund S. Muskie School of
Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland
James W. Carignan, dean of the college emeritus, Bates College
Maureen Elgersman Lee, assistant professor of history, Department of History, and faculty
scholar, African-American Collection, University of Southern Maine
Joseph Hall, assistant professor of history, Bates College
Steve Hochstadt, professor of history, Bates College
Hilmar Jensen, associate professor of history, Bates College
Laura Juraska, associate librarian for reference services, George and Helen Ladd Library, Bates
College
Karen Kothe, associate dean of admissions, Bates College
Arlene MacLeod, associate professor of political science, Bates College
Christian P. Potholm, DeAlva Stanwood Alexander professor of government, Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, Maine
Doug Rawlings, Vietnam veteran; poet; administrator, University of Maine at Farmington
James Reese, associate dean of students, Bates College
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The Edmund S. Muskie Scholars Program in History, Politics and Government offers high
school seniors an intensive college-level course in recent U.S. political history. Now in its 16th
year, the program is sponsored by Bates College with support from the Edmund S. Muskie
Foundation in Washington, D.C.
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Office of Summer Programs, 163 Wood Street, Lewiston, (207) 786-6077
Laura Biscoe, director
Kristen Cloutier, secretary
Brenda Pelletier, associate director
Required reading:
David A. Horowitz and Peter N. Carroll, On the Edge: The United States since 1945 (Belmont,
California: Wadsworth, 2002), 3rd edition – on 2-hour reserve in Ladd Library
Daily schedule:
7:00 - 8:30 a.m.
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
10:15 - 11:30 a.m.
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
1:15 - 1:30 p.m.
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
5:00 - 6:45 p.m.
7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Breakfast (Chase Hall)
Lecture (111 Carnegie Science Hall)
Discussion (111 Carnegie)
Lunch (Chase Hall)
General meeting (111 Carnegie)
Advisory groups
(Chris Babbidge - 115 Carnegie)
(Chris Beam - 111 Carnegie)
(Ann Cohen - 113 Carnegie)
Tutorials, tours, individual research and writing
Recreation
Dinner (Chase Hall)
Video presentation and discussion, group activity
Sunday, June 20
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
Registration (Chase Lounge, Chase Hall)
Welcome Scholars (Edmund S. Muskie Room, second floor,
Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, 70 Campus
Avenue)
Buffet dinner for scholars, guests and faculty (Muskie Room)
Security briefing (Chase Lounge)
Official welcome (Muskie Room)
Week 1 (June 21-26) reading assignment: pages 1-160
Monday, June 21
9:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
1:15-1:30 p.m.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Lecture: Steve Hochstadt, “The Soviet Union, the United States,
and the Cold War, 1945-1960”
Discussion
General meeting
Advisory groups
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2:30-3:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Reference orientation: Laura Juraska, George and Helen Ladd
Library
Video presentation and discussion: Dr. Strangelove” (Lounge, Frye
Street Union, 29 Frye Street)
Tuesday, June 22
9:00-11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. - 12 noon
1:15 - 1:30 p.m.
1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
“Star Power” public policy exercise: Richard Barringer
Video presentation and discussion: “Edmund S. Muskie: The Man
from Maine” (111 Carnegie)
General meeting
Orientation to the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special
Collections Library and workshop on use of primary sources
(reading room, first floor, Muskie Archives and Special
Collections Library)
Discussion: James Reese, “Growing up in the South” (Frye Street
Union)
Wednesday, June 23
9:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
12:00 noon
1:15-2:30 p.m.
Lecture: Christian Potholm, “This Splendid Game: Maine
Campaigns and Elections since 1945”
Discussion
Lunch with Karen M. Kothe, associate director of admissions,
Bates College (Rowe Room, Chase Hall)
General meeting/advisory groups
Thursday, June 24
9:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
1:15-2:30 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Lecture: Maureen Elgersman Lee, “The Civil Rights Movement
after Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954-1968"
Discussion
General meeting/advisory groups
Archives research project: paper topics/thesis paragraph due
Video presentation and discussion: “Freedom on My Mind” (Frye
Street Union)
Friday, June 25
9:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
1:15-2:30 p.m.
Lecture: Hilmar Jensen, “The Civil Rights Movement from the
Bottom Up”
Discussion
General meeting/advisory groups
Saturday, June 26
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10:00 a.m.
1:15-2:30 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Mid-program examination
General meeting/advisory groups
Archives research project: first rough draft due
Cook-out (Frye Street Union)
Sunday, June 27
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
Trip to the Maine coast: Joel Anderson, Chris Beam and Natasha
Mayet
Pizza and discussion with RCs: an insider’s guide to college,
Wilson House
Week 2 (June 28 – July 2) reading assignment: pages 161-309
Monday, June 28
9:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
1:15 p.m.
1:30-3:00 p.m.
5:00-6:45 p.m.
Lecture: Chris Beam, “The Vietnam War, 1965-1973”
Discussion
General meeting
Guest speaker: Doug Rawlings, “Reflections of a Vietnam
Veteran”
Lobster bake
Tuesday, June 29
9:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
1:15-2:30 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Lecture: Joseph Hall, “The Maine Indian Land Claim Case and the
American Indian Movement”
Discussion
General meeting/advisory groups
Archives research project: final rough draft due
Video presentation and discussion: CBS News, “Watergate: A
Retrospective” (Frye Street Union)
Wednesday, June 30
9:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
1:15-2:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Lecture: Arlene MacLeod, “The Middle East and Political Islam”
Discussion
General meeting/advisory groups
Video presentation and discussion: ABC, CBS and NBC television
news reports on Operation Dewey Canyon III, April 19-23, 1971
Thursday, July 1
9:00 a.m.
12 noon
Chris Babbidge, “The United States Supreme Court, 1954-1970”
Lunch with James W. Carignan, dean of the college emeritus,
Bates College (Rowe Room)
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1:15 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
Friday, July 2
General meeting
Special examination on modern U.S. political history
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Slide show and audio tape presentation: Chris Beam, “Watergate
and the Presidency of Richard M. Nixon: The White House Taping
System” (113 Carnegie)
Final examination
Banquet lunch and closing ceremony (Rowe Room)
General meeting/early departures
Archives research project: final paper due
11:00 a.m.
12 noon
1:15 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
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