Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
University of Warsaw
Prof. Zbigniew Lewicki
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION II
Lecture schedule
Examination will be based on the content of lectures: there is no one textbook/handbook
for the course. You can use just about any university-level handbook for American History,
but material from fields of art, literature, etc. has to be found elsewhere. If you need it, the
lecturer will assist you with your search.
Below you can find a list of common names and useful terms included in the lecture. All
readings are recommended – and obligatory for one form of the examination (see info). The
final examination will cover so much material that any attempt to catch up with readings at
the last minute is bound to result in failure.
Wykład 30
Ford’s Theatre
John Wilkes Booth
Civil Rights Act
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Land
Howard University
Military Reconstruction Act
impeachment
John F. Kennedy
Profiles in Courage
carpetbagger
Ku Klux Klan Act
United States vs. Reese
Hiram B. Revels
Amnesty Act
Samuel J. Tilden
Rutherford B. Hayes
(Freedmen’s Bureau)
Lecture 31
Terms and proper names:
William Seward
Midway Island
“Seward’s Icebox”
Ulysses Grant
Credit Mobilier
Whisky Ring
Rutherford B. Hayes
Reconstruction
boll weevil
redneck
Jim Crow laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson
grandfather's clause
Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute
Up From Slavery
Samuel Longhorn Clemens
spinning a yarn
tall tale
magniloquence
sockdologer
absquatulate
high-falutin
flabbergast
Johnny Appleseed
Paul Bunyan
The Innocents Abroad
ruffians
The Gilded Age; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer;
Life on the Mississippi
Huckleberry Finn
Bildungsroman
white trash
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women; March
Good Wives;
Little Men
Comstock Lode
boomtown
shanties
el
pneumatic subway
Central Park
Gentrified
Strawberry Field
Julian Carr Durham
American Tobacco Company
Centennial International Exhibition
Philadelphia
Lecture 32
Readings:
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (to Lecture 31)
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself parts 1,2, 5-9
Emily Dickinson, any 5 poems
Leaves of Grass
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed"
"O Captain! My Captain!"
Amherst, Massachusetts
"As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life"
Whitmanesque
Dickinsonian
Lecture 33
Russell Conwell
"Acres of Diamonds"
William Graham Sumner
social Darwinism
Henry George;
single tax
Promontory Point
the golden spike
tycoons
"Robber Barons"
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Huntington
Jason “Jay” Gould
Andrew Carnegie
vertical integration
charitable foundations
"rags-to-riches"
American Dream
Horatio Alger
Ragged Dick
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Exxon
Spindletop gusher
Christmas tree
dry hole
duster
Lakeview Gusher
merger
J.P.Morgan
United States Steel
USX
Sherman Antitrust Act
consumerism
patent medicine
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Campbell Soup Company
William Kellogg
French flats
the Dakota
George Fuller
L. H. Sullivan
Home Insurance Building
Tacoma Building
Flatiron Building
Brooklyn Bridge
Union Station
Grand Central
Thomas A. Edison
Menlo Park, NJ
George Eastman
“Brownie”
Wilbur and Orville Wright
Kitty Hawk
National Labor Union
Knights of Labor
Haymarket Riot
Coney Island
Patrick Gilmore
John Philip Sousa
Great Coliseum
Harry Houdini
White City
Ferris Wheel
Nathan’s Famous
Lecture 34
peep-hole
Kinetoscope
Fred Ott's Sneeze
Kinetophone
Black Maria
nickelodeons
melodeon
yellow journalism
Joseph Pulitzer;
William Randolph Hearst
James Naismith
YMCA;
The Young Men's Christian Association;
John L. Sullivan
"Gentleman Jim" Corbett.
Charles Dana Gibson;
Camille Gifford
Carlisle School
Sand Creek Massacre
Sioux Wars
Black Hills
Col. George Custer
Sitting Bull;
Crazy Horse
Little Big Horn
Custer's Last Stand
Geronimo
Nez Perce
local dependent communitie
Dawes Severalty Act
Ghost Dance
Wounded Knee
longhorn steer
Chisholm Trail
Dodge City
Frederic Remington
OK Corral;
Earp brothers;
Doc Holliday
William F. Cody;
Buffalo Bill
Yosemite Valley;
Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias
Yellowstone;
Old Faithful geyser
hick;
hayseed
Montgomery Ward;
Sears, Roebuck
holiness
Salvation Army Charles S. Peirce
pragmatism
pragmaticism
William James Principles of Psychology
Mary Baker Eddy; Church of Christ Scientist
Science and Health
Christian Science Monitor
Sooners
‘Y”
Lecture 35
Statute of Liberty
Emma Lazarus
Ellis Island
the melting pot
Israel Zangwill
Chinese Exclusion Act
moral turpitude
Burlingame Treaty
Angel Island
Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives
party machine
William Tweed
Thomas Nast
spoils system
Pendleton Act
William McKinley
front-porch campaign
William Jennings Bryan
stump speech
Grange Movement
Farmers' Alliances
Populist Party; People’s Party
Chautauqua
Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Conspicuous Consumption
The Pecuniary Standard of Living
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts
Frick Collection
“Polish Rider”
stick style
shingle style
John Rogers
realistic-naturalistic tradition
Weltanschauung
stream-of-consciousness
Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Doctor
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Yellow Wallpaper"
Kate Chopin
The Awakening
"The Storm"
Edith Wharton
Willa Cather
"Coming, Aphrodite!"
O.Henry
Grover Cleveland
ticker-tape parade
Lecture 36
Reading:
Stephen Crane, Red Badge of Courage
William Dean Howells
The Modern Instance;
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Their Wedding Journey
New Realists
Stephen Crane
Maggie; the Girl of the Streets
Jack London
The Sea Wolf;
The Call of the Wild;
White Fang
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary
muckraking journalism,
Frank Norris
McTeague
Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady;
“The Beast in the Jungle”
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie;
Jennie Gerhardt;
An American Tragedy
"on the wrong side of the tracks"
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Whistler's Mother; The Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket
Mary Cassatt
Children on the Shore;
Portrait of a Little Girl
John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Madame X
Winslow Homer Turtle Pound
Thomas Eakins The Swimming Hole; The Gross Clinic
George Inness
spheres of influence
Open Door policy
Alfred Mahan
Midway Islands
Hawaii
American Samoa
splendid little war
USS Maine
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders;
The Battle of San Juan Hill
Guantanamo;
Platt Amendment
William Howard Taft
Guam
Commonwealth of the United States
missionary movement
Kensington Rune Stone
Lecture 37
Mark Hanna
Leon Czolgosz
Progressive Era
Frederick W. Taylor
theory of efficient production
John Dewey; Laboratory School
rote learning
Charles W. Eliot
settlement house movement
Hull House
Jane Addams
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
"dry" county
Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)
garment sweatshop
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW; the Wobblies)
square deal
lame duck
Upton Sinclair The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Law
John Muir
Referendum
Recall
primary election
bully pulpit
Roosevelt Corollary
Gentlemen's Agreement
William Howard Taft
dollars for bullets
Progressive Party
Bull Moose Party
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve Banks ("the twelve sisters")
Federal Reserve Board
prime interest rate
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Talented Tenth
Niagara Movement
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Lecture 38
Alfred Stieglitz The Steerage;
Sun Rays—Paula—Berlin
Photo-Secession
Clarence H. White
Alvin Langdon Coburn
Frances Benjamin Johnston
Shoe Workers, Lynn, Mass
Arnold Genthe
Armory Show
Nude Descending a Staircase
"Explosion in a Shingle Factory"
"Rude Descending a Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway)"
The Eight;
Ashcan School;
Apostles of Ugly
Robert Henri
John Sloan McSorley's Bar
George Luks Roundhouse at High Bridge
Cubo-realism
Precisionism
Charles Demuth My Egypt
Charles Sheeler Classic Landscape
Gerald Murphy Razor
Arthur Garfield Dove Ferryboat Wreck
Marsden Hartley Portrait of a German Officer
Georgia O'Keeffe The Shelton with Sunspots
Southwest Modernism;
Cow's Skull: Red, White and Blue
Intimate Gallery
Museum of Modern Art ("MoMA")
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney;
Whitney Museum of American Art
silents
D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation
slapstick comedy
Keystone Cops
Rudolph Valentino
Harold Lloyd
production code
Frank Lloyd Wright
the prairie-house style
Robie House
Unity Temple
American System-Built Houses
Taliesin
organic architecture
Fallingwater residence
Guggenheim Museum
Woolworth Building
Pancho Villa
Gen. John J. Pershing
contraband
John Holland
Lusitania
Arthur Zimmermann
Selective Service Act
The American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
Belleau Wood
Argonne Forest
War Industries Board (WIB)
Food Administration
Herbert Hoover;
Committee on Public Information (CPI)
four-minute men
Horace Kallen
salad-bowl
“cultural pluralism”
melting pot
Great Earthquake
Lecture 39
Espionage Act
Sedition Act
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Irreconcilables
reservationists
unilateralism
isolationism
Mitchell Palmer
Red Scare;
John Edgar Hoover
American Legion
Warren Harding
era of good cheer
cronyism
Veterans’ Administration
Teapot Dome
Albert B. Fall
consumer society
Henry Ford
Fordson
Model F
Model T
hearse
Country Club Plaza
Royce Hailey's Pig Stand
tray boys
curb girls
carhops
"White Castle"
slide
skywriting
Bruce Barton The Man Nobody Knows
Ty Cobb; Babe Ruth
Chicago White Sox
World Series
"the fix"
Charles Lindbergh
"The Spirit of St. Louis”
"Man of the Year"
Amelia Earhart
The American's Creed
filibuster
cloture
Lecture 40
Reading:
Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Eros Turannos,"
Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology
Carl Sandburg Smoke and Steel
Vachel Lindsay
"General William Booth Enters Into Heaven”
Wallace Stevens
KDKA
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Dempsey-Tunney
service clubs
The Rotary Club
The Lions Club
The Kiwanis
"Monkey trial"
John Thomas Scopes
Clarence Darrow.
H.L. Mencken
noble experiment
bathtub gin
moonshine
speakeasies
Al Capone
flapper
Roaring Twenties
Louis Brooks
Mae West
Broadway
"Great White Way"
Show Boat
miscegenation
Calvin Coolidge
Washington Conference
Five-Power Treaty.
Clark Memorandum
United Fruit Company
Gen. Augusto Sandino
Col. Somoza
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Quota Act
Immigration Act
wetbacks
Lecture 41
Sacco and Vanzetti
Women of the Ku Klux Klan
Indiana Great Dragon
Marcus Garvey
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Harlem Renaissance
James Weldon Johnson Along This Way; The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
God's Trombones
Shuffle Along
Josephine Baker;
Paul Robeson;
"I'm Just Wild about Harry"
Alain LeRoy Locke The New Negro: An Interpretation
Langston Hughes;
Jesse B. Simple;
Mulatto;
The Big Sea; I Wonder as I Wander
Jean Toomer
Cane
Countee Cullen Ballad of the Brown Girl;
Copper Sun
Richard Wright Uncle Tom's Children;
Native Son; Black Boy
Gertrude Stein
William H. Johnson Self-Portrait
Augusta Savage Freedom
ragtime
Scott Joplin
Under the Bamboo Tree
Irving Berlin
Alexander's Ragtime Band
blues;
W.C. Handy
"Memphis Blues"
"St. Louis Blues"
Jass; jasz
Buddy Bolden
Original Dixieland Jass Band
"Livery Stable Blues"
Paul Whiteman
"symphonic jazz”
shimmy
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Cotton Club
swing
jitterbug
the conga line
dance marathons
Duke Ellington
Jazz Age
Modernism
diner
Lecture 42
Readings:
Ernest Hemingway, "Big Two-Hearted River"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
Gertrude Stein
The Making of Americans;
Three Lives;
The Geographical History of America
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas;
Tender Buttons
Steinese
lost generation
Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls;
The Sun Also Rises;
Farewell to Arms;
Winner Takes Nothing;
A Moveable Feast;
The Old Man and the Sea
slop
nada
This Side of Paradise;
Bildungsroman
Zelda Sayre
The Beautiful and the Damned;
The Great Gatsby;
The Last Tycoon
John Dos Passos
Manhattan Transfer
"U.S.A.";
The 42nd Parallel;
1919;
The Big Money
Pathe News
Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio
freak
Babbitt
Zenith
Main Street;
Gopher Prairie
Lecture 43
Readings
T.S.Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro," "Canto XLV" (With Usura)
imagism
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
usury
Paterson
Gerontion
The Waste Land
"Tradition and the Individual Talent”
verbal object
objective correlative
Hart Crane
The Bridge
Lecture 44
Readings
Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey Into Night
James A. Herne
Shore Acres
little theaters
vaudeville empire
“ten, twent’, thirt’ ”
Provincetown Playhouse; Bound East for Cardiff; S.S. Glencairn;
Beyond the Horizon;
The Emperor Jones; Brutus Jones
The Hairy Ape;
Yank Smith
expressionism
Jamie
Desire Under the Elms; The Great God Brown; Strange Interlude
Mourning Becomes Electra; The Iceman Cometh
Maxwell Anderson
What Price Glory?
Thornton Wilder Our Town; The Skin of Our Teeth
Clifford Odets Awake and Sing!;
Waiting for Lefty
Florenz Ziegfeld
Ziegfeld Follies
George Cohan
“Give My Regards to Broadway”
Jerome Kern
George and Ira Gershwin
Cole Porter
National Geographic;
The Reader's Digest;
Time;
Henry Robinson Luce
Saturday Evening Post
Norman Rockwell
Alfred Smith
famous last words
Great Crash;
Great Depression
stocks;
stockbroker;
dividend;
on margin
New York Stock Exchange
Black Thursday
Black Tuesday
bank run
shantytowns; Hoovervilles
Bonus March
Hoover Dam
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Brain Trust
Frances Perkins
Lecture 45
First Hundred Days
New Deal
fireside chats;
Walter Lippmann
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
"going on the dole"
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA),
National Industry Recovery Act (NIRA)
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
codes of fair competition
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Charles Coughlin;
Radio Priest
Huey Long;
Share Our Wealth
coffee blood
Messiah of the rednecks
Foreclosure;
collateral
Okies;
Arkies
Dust Bowl
cut down to size
Social Security
Labor Act
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act
Works Progress (Projects) Administration (WPA)
murals
WPA Theater
WPA Music
Federal Writers' Project
WPA Arts
Resettlement Administration
Rural Electrification Administration
The Roosevelt depression
National Housing Act
CIO (Committee for Industrial Organization;
Congress of Industrial Organizations)
Memorial Day Massacre
Scottsboro Nine
hobo
Daughters of the American Revolution
Will Rogers
Jazz Singer
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers;
Gene Kelly;
American in Paris
John Ford;
Stagecoach
Cecil B. DeMille; Ten Commandments
Marx Brothers;
Duck Soup;
A Night at the Opera
Howard Hughes; Hell's Angels;
Jean Harlow
Hollywood Bowl
Orson Welles; War of the Worlds; Citizen Kane
Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow);
John Dillinger
Lecture 46
Readings
William Faulkner, any novel or short story in English
oral tradition
family Negroes
Absalom, Absalom!
Quentin Compson
The Marble Faun; Soldier's Pay;
Sartoris; The Sound and the Fury
Yoknapatawpha
Benjy
Dilsey
As I Lay Dying; Bundren
Light in August; Lena Grove; Joe Christmas; Rev. Hightower
Snopes trilogy: The Hamlet;
The Town; The Mansion
Varners
Flem
“The Bear”; Go Down, Moses
Ellen Glasgow
Eudora Welty;
Golden Angles; Losing Battles
Carson McCullers; Clock Without Hands; The Ballad of the Sad Café;
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Flannery O'Connor; A Good Man is Hard to Find; Everything That Rises Must Converge
Nathaniel West; Miss Lonelyhearts; The Day of the Locust
wannabe
John Steinbeck; The Grapes of Wrath
Erskine Caldwell;
Tobacco Road; God's Little Acre
James Agee; Walker Evans; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Dorothea Lange;
"Migrant Mother"
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Henry Miller; Tropic of Cancer; Black Spring; Tropic of Capricorn
Chrysler Building
Empire State Building
dirigible
Rockefeller Center
Golden Gate Bridge
Mount Rushmore
Regionalists
American Scene
Edward Hopper; Office at Night
Social Realists;
Ben Shahn; The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
Urban Realists;
Reginald Marsh; Coney Island
Regional Realists;
Grant Wood; American Gothic
Lecture 47
Fulgencio Batista
Good Neighbor policy
Export-Import Bank
Reciprocal Trade Act (RTA)
Neutrality Acts
cash-and-carry
Lincoln Brigade
America First Committee (AFC)
Lend-Lease Act
Four Freedoms: of speech; of religion; from want; from fear
Atlantic Charter
Tri-Partite Treaty
Purple Code
Declaration by the United Nations
War Manpower Commission (WMC)
War Production Board (WPB)
Thomas E. Dewey
Harry S Truman
Operation Overlord
Four Policemen
Dumbarton Oaks
Bretton Woods system
The World Bank
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
"Kilroy was here"
pin-up girls
Betty Grable
Lecture 48
Ardennes Forest
Battle of the Bulge
Kuril Islands
Sakhalin
Admiral Yamamoto
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Bataan Death Match
internment of the Japanese
Doolittle Raiders
Battle of the Coral Sea
Adm. Chester Nimitz
island-hopping
Leyte Gulf
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Manhattan Project
Enola Gay
Gunnar Myrdal; An American Dilemma
pachucos
zoot suits
reconversion
GI Bill of Rights
Reinhold Niebuhr
Serenity Prayer
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Grandma Moses;
old timey things
Sergeant York
Why We Fight
reconversion
Taft-Hartley Act
George F. Kennan
The Long Telegram
Fulton
Uncle Joe
Cold War
GI Joe
"Government Issue"
Lecture 49
Truman Doctrine
X ; Foreign Affairs
European Recovery Program (ERP)
Marshall Plan
Economic Cooperation Administration
President's Committee on Civil Rights
To Secure These Rights
Jackie Robinson
Fair Deal
loyalty oath
Hollywood Ten
Berlin crisis
collective security
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Washington Treaty
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
Alger Hiss
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
NSC-68
38th parallel
police action
war by the executive branch
Pusan perimeter
Inchon
rollback
Yalu
MASH
Richard M. Nixon
Checkers speech
Ike
age of consensus
John Foster Dulles
liberation
Hungarian Freedom Fighters
massive retaliation
deterrence
Quemoy and Matsu
New Look
arms race
the military-industrial complex
Camp David
U-2
Lecture 50
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
United Fruit Company
Aswan Dam
Gamal Abdul Nasser
Eisenhower Doctrine
Ed Murrow
to censure
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
Earl Warren;
Brethren
Montgomery, Alabama
Rosa Parks
Little Rock, Arkansas
Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
legal approach
passive resistance
Greensboro, N. Carolina
sit-in
Indian termination policy
braceros
poverty line
the affluent society
Dr. Benjamin Spock Baby and Child Care
polio;
children's paralysis;
Dr. Jonas Salk
on-site fabrication
William J. Levitt;
Levittown
Sunbelt
James Dean
Rebel Without a Cause
Dr. Alfred Kinsey
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male; Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
Billy Graham
revival meetings
"I Love Lucy"
Slinky
Silly Putty
3-D movies
Hula Hoop
Abstract Expressionism
Mark Tobey Ghost Town; Unknown Journey;
Tundra;
Space Intengibles
Jackson Pollock;
action painting;
Lavender Mist
Willem de Kooning Excavation
Collage
Mark Rothko;
color field painting
Franz Kline
Ad Reinhardt
Gene Davis
Lecture 51
Readings:
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Prologue; Ch. I
Sylvia Plath, "Daddy," "Lady Lazarus"
Saul Bellow
Dangling Man;
The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March;
Seize the Day;
Henderson the Rain King;
Herzog; Mr. Sammler's Planet;
Humboldt's Gift;
Ravelstein
Bernard Malamud The Assistant; Pictures of Fidelman;
The Tenants;
Rembrandt’s Hat; God’s Grace
phoney
Seymour: Introduction
Norman Mailer; Acquarius;
The Naked and the Dead
The Village Voice
"The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster"
New Journalism;
The Armies of the Night; Miami and the Siege of Chicago
The Prisoner of Sex;
The Executioner's Song; Ancient Evenings;
Harlot's Ghost;
Oswald's Tale; The Castle in the Forest
Kate Millett
Sexual Politics
Truman Capote Other Voices, Other Rooms; The Grass Harp
Breakfast at Tiffany's; In Cold Blood
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five; Cat's Cradle; Mother Night;
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater;
Bokononism
William Styron
Lie Down in Darkness; The Long March
The Confessions of Nat Turner; Sophie's Choice
homo unius libri.
James Baldwin
Go Tell It On the Mountain; Another Country
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone;
Nobody Knows My Name; The Fire Next Time
Nikki Giovanni
Theodore Roethke Open House;
Lost Son ; The Far Field
Delmore Schwartz
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
Randall Jarrell
Little Friend, Little Friend; Losses
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Robert Lowell Life Studies
John Berryman
77 Dream Songs
Howard Nemerov "The Goose Fish"; The Salt Garden; "A Day on the Big Branch"
"The Pond";
Gnomes and Occasions
confessional poetry.
The Bell Jar; The Colossus; Ariel;
Crossing the Water; Winter Trees
controlled hallucination
Anne Sexton
To Bedlam and Part Way Back
autobiographical poetry
Adrienne Rich A Change of World; Diving into the Wreck
Lecture 52
Readings:
Allen Ginsberg Howl
Rebel Poets of the 1950s
Beat Generation
San Francisco Renaissance
Black Mountain poets
New York School
united phalanx
Jack Kerouac On the Road
automatic writing
Visions of Cody;
Doctor Sax; The Subterraneans
Spontaneous Prose
benzedrine
classic drunkard’s death
William S. Burroughs The Naked Lunch; The Soft Machine;
The Ticket That Exploded; Nova Express
Moloch
Carl Solomon;
Kaddish and Other Poems
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Coney Island of the Mind
City Lights Books
Pocket Poets Series
Gary Snyder
Zen Buddhism
Charles Olson The Maximus Poems;
"The Kingfishers";
Projective Verse
projective mode
Robert Creeley
Black Mountain Review
little magazines
Denise Levertov
Frank O'Hara; Selected Poems
Person-ism
John Ashbery
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie;
A Streetcar Named Desire;
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Suddenly Last Summer; Night of the Iguana;
Arthur Miller The Crucible;
After the Fall; Death of a Salesman;
Willie Loman
dramatists of the absurd
Edward Albee The Zoo Story; The American Dream;
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Arthur Kopit
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis;
Wings;
Indians
Living Theater
Café La Mama
off-off-Broadway
Sam Shepard Operation Sidewinder; The Tooth of Crime;
Curse of the Starving Class;
Buried Child
David Mamet Sexual Perversity in Chicago;
American Buffalo
Tony Kushner
Angels in America
John F. Kennedy
Lecture 53
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Alliance for Progress
Berlin Wall
quarantine
nuclear warheads
hot line
teletype line
Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Peace Corps
interstate transportation
Freedom Ride
Birmingham, Alabama
"Bombingham"
James Meredith
Voter Education Project
Lincoln Memorial
"March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom"
"I Have a Dream"
New Frontier
Dallas, Texas;
November 22, 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
The Great Society
Johnson treatment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act
affirmative action
reverse discrimination
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Education Act;
Higher Education Act
Medicare
Medicaid
food stamps
War on Poverty
Black Muslims;
Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
Louis Farrakhan
Louis X
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Stokely Carmichael
Black Power
Black Panthers Party
Lecture 54
counterculture
Ken Kesey
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest;
Sometimes a Great Notion
Big Nurse;
McMurphy;
lobotomy
Merry Pranksters
Psychedelic Era
Acid Tests
Furthur
Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
beatniks
freaks
hippies
Timothy Leary
LSD
Psychedelic Sixties
mind-expanding drugs
Love-Ins
Be-ins
Flower Power
Haight-Ashbury
Rolling Stone
Woodstock Music Festival
Charles Manson
pop
Jasper Johns
Painted Bronze
Robert Rauschenberg
combines;
Monogram
Jim Dine
James Rosenquist
F-111
Roy Lichtenstein
Andy Warhol
Campbell's Soup Cans;
photo-silkscreen;
"The Factory"
Jean Michel Basquiat
SAMO (Same Old Shit)
John Cage
4'33'';
"Cartridge Music"
Allan Kaprow
18 Happenings in 6 Parts;
Chicken
psychedelic art
conceptual art
Earthworks
Nancy Holt
Sun Tunnels
Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty
Buckminster Fuller
Spaceship Earth
Geodesic dome
Judicial Revolution
Miranda vs. Arizona
Miranda warning
Immigration and Nationality Act
DDT
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
Ralph Nader
Unsafe at Any Speed
The American Indian Movement (AIM)
fish-in
United Farm Workers Association;
Cesar Chavez
Chicanos;
Harvest of Shame
Panama Canal Zone
Ho Chi Minh;
OSS
Vietminh;
Dien Bien Phu
Ngo Din Diem
domino theory
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Vietcong
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Agent Orange
strategic hamlets
Buddhist monks
Tonkin Gulf
USS Maddox
fragging
University of California at Berkeley
teach-in
Tet offensive
Memphis, Tennessee;
James Earl Ray
Sirhan Sirhan
Columbia University
Hubert H. Humphrey
Spiro Agnew
American Independent Party
George Wallace
Vietnamization
Henry Kissinger
linkage
Kent State University
William Caley
My Lai
Le Duc Tho
boat people
Green Berets; Apocalypse Now; Platoon;
Coming Home; The Deer Hunter.
Michael Herr Dispatches
Robert Stone Dog Soldiers
détente
triangular policy
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
SALT I
defensive weapons systems (ABM).
shuttle diplomacy
Yom Kipur war
Salvador Alende
Gen. Augusto Pinochet
busing
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique
National Organization for Women (NOW)
sexism;
pervasive attitude
Gloria Steinem;
Ms.
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Phyllis Schlafly
Roe vs. Wade
Full Metal Jacket;
Lecture 56
Readings:
Joseph Heller Catch-22
John Updike Rabbit Run
Terms and proper names:
George McGovern
Organization of Oil Exporting Countries (OPEC)
meltdown
Three Mile Island
baby-boomers;
Watergate
Gerald Ford
Carl Bernstein
Bob Woodward
executive privilege
presidential pardon
Methodists
Baptists
televangelism
Electronic Church
Jimmy Swaggart
Jim and Tammy
Fay Bakker
Oral Roberts
Unification Church
"Moonies"
Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Jim Jones
Peoples Temple
Frostbelt/Rustbelt
Helsinki Accords
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE);
third basket
Helsinki Committees for Human Rights
neo-isolationism
Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin
Camp David accords
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Carter Doctrine
New Right
Rev. Jerry Falwell
Moral Majority
family values
Bakke
OSCE [Organization…]
GNP (Gross National Product),
Food and Drug Administration
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Aleuts
Brown Berets
Friendship Wall
Tortilla Curtain
Mariel Boatlift
America's Super Minority
Lecture 57
Reading:
John Barth, The Floating Opera
Thomas Pynchon, "Entropy"
Donald Barthelme, "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby"
Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus;
Portnoy's Complaint;
Our Gang;
The Breast;
The Great American Novel;
My Life As a Man
shiksa
Nathan Zuckerman;
The Ghost Writer;
Zuckerman Unbound;
The Anatomy Lesson;
American Pastoral;
I Married a Communist;
The Human Stain;
The Plot Against America;
John Updike The Poorhouse Fair; Rabbit, Run;
Rabbit Redux;
Rabbit is Rich;
Rabbit at Rest
Joseph Heller Catch-22;
Something Happened;
No Laughing Matter
Jerzy Kosinski The Painted Bird;
Steps;
Being There;
postmodernism
John Barth
"The Literature of Exhaustion"
Chimera; "Dunyazadiad";
self-referentiality
The Floating Opera;
The End of the Road;
nihilistic existential novels
Mobius strip
Lost in the Funhouse; "Menelaiad";
"Night-Sea Journey";
Letters
entropy
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Norbert Wiener The Human Use of Human Beings
information and noise
Thomas Pynchon V.;
The Crying of Lot 49
Oedipa Maas
Tristero
Gravity's Rainbow;
Slothrop
"Porcupines at the University";
Snow White
William Gaddis
JR
Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America; In Watermelon Sugar
Sombrero Fallout;
The Abortion;
Please Plant This Book
William Gass
On Being Blue;
Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
Walter Abish
Alphabetical Africa
Robert Coover The Origin of the Brunists;
Pricksongs and Descants
"The Magic Poker";
"The Babysitter";
The Public Burning
Lecture 58
Reagan Revolution
Reaganomics
voodoo economics
Geraldine Ferraro
Sandra Day O'Connor
Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
crack
yuppies (young urban professionals)
Grenada
Iran-Contra
Reagan Doctrine
Adm. John Poindexter
Col. Oliver North
Teflon President
"mutually assured destruction" (MAD)
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Star Wars
strategic arms reduction talks (START)
evil empire
Michael Dukakis
Willie Horton
Tiananmen Square
Gen. Manuel Noriega
Operation Desert Shield
Operation Desert Storm
friendly fire
smart bombs
Kurds
Shiite Muslims
Operation Restore Hope
Japan-bashing
Buy American
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
oil spill
Exxon Valdez
Clean Air Act
blue-collar workers
Silicon Valley
Rodney King
Clarence Thomas
Anita Hill
symbolic speech
political correctness
Lecture 59
The Strip
Las Vegas
Reno
New Age
Slick Willie
Ross Perot
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Slackers
gun-control bill;
National Rifle Association (NRA)
Waco, Tx;
Branch Davidians
health-care reform
Contract with America
Somalia
Aidid
nation building
Yitzhak Rabin
Dayton, Ohio
Bob Dole
Kenya;
Tanzania
USS Cole
Monica Lewinsky
perjury
obstruction of justice
impeachment
high crimes and misdemeanors
Al Gore
chads
Alice Walker
Meridian The Color Purple;
Celie
womanist
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye;
Sula;
Song of Solomon
Tar Baby;
Beloved;
Sethe
Jeff Koons
"Made in Heaven";
Puppy
Vietnam Memorial;
Statue of the Three Servicemen
Vietnam Women's Memorial
Richard Serra
Tilted Arc
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
neo-conservatives
Kyoto Accord;
ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons
Taliban
Operation Enduring Freedom
Osama bin Laden
Patriot Act
Department of Homeland Security
unilateralism