Course Syllabi

Spring 2008: The War in Vietnam

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The War in Vietnam

This is a distance learning course. You will be responsible for listening to Professor Ambrose’s lectures handed out on DVD and for attending Professor Bischof’s scheduled evening sessions without fail. Readings will have to be done by the dates indicated on the syllabus so you will be prepared for discussing them in class.

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Fall 2007: World War II

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HIST 4570-401, Fall 2007 Dr. Stephen E. Ambrose/Dr. Günter Bischof
ED 103, TH 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Office: ED 128 (office tel: 280-3223, e-mail: gjbhi@mobiletel.com or gjbischo@uno.edu
Office hours: TH 4 –5 pm

Summer 2007: Proseminar American History

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The 1960s and the Crisis Year 1968:

Transnational Perspectives This course will look at the turmoil of the 1960s as a crisis decade culminating in the “year of shocks” 1968 from a comparative international perspective. It will cover some of the major movements in the United States (youth cultures, civil rights, Vietnam War and anti-war) but also look at their significance in the world at large. The “protest culture” of the 1960s and the eruption of violent protests will be studied in their global context, how they radicalized and fed on each other. The significance of the 1960s in the trajectory of the post-World War II world will also be assessed by looking at text books.

The Cold War Era

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HIST 4575, Spring 2007

HIST 3225-401 Fall 2006 The War in Vietnam

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The Vietnam War is the master narrative of an American intervention in the Cold War gone awry. It has produced one of the great traumas in American History. We will study these aspects and many more. Professor Ambrose’s lectures give you the basic outline of domestic and international events. Professor Bischof’s lectures review the materials assigned and add critical interpretative frameworks and questions such as comparing the French and the American Indochina wars, the American and North Vietnamese soldiers’ experiences, Vietnamese perspectives of the war, the essence of 1960’s America, and American memories of the war. This is a distance learning course. You will be responsible for listening to Professor Ambrose’s lectures handed out on DVD and for attending Professor Bischof’s scheduled evening sessions without fail. Readings will have to be done by the dates indicated on the syllabus so you will be prepared for discussing them in class.

2006 Syllabus - HIST 6501 001

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Graduate Proseminar in American History:
The End of the Cold War and the Peaceful Revolutions of 1989