The United States: 1972-2000

1. Introduction to course
2. Background: Republicans in a Democratic Age
3. Nixon and the "New Republican Majority"
4. The Troubled 1970's
5. The Election of 1976
6. The Diversity Movement
7. Authenticity
8. The Rise of the Sunbelt
9. The Carter Presidency
10. Seventies Popular Culture and Authority
11. Gender and the Seventies
12. The New Right and the Tax Revolt
13. Enter Ronald Reagan
14. The 1980 Election
15. "Morning Again in America": Reaganomics
16. "Greed is Good": American Business in the Reagan 80's
17. Morning Again in America": Society in the Reagan 80's
18. Postmodern Moment
19. Culture War
20. Combating the Evil Empire
21. Reagan Re-election
22. Winning the Cold War
23. President George H. Bush
24. The New World Order
25. Clinton, the Liberals, and the Conservative "Revolution"
26. Clinton and Triangulation
27. Clinton and the Impeachment Conspiracy
28. Clinton Foreign Policy: Pax Americana?
29. The 2000 Election and the George W. Bush "Revolution"
30. George W. Bush