History 3457/CS 3120: Youth, Public Policy, & the Law
This hybrid course–which includes elements of history, public policy, and law–traces the treatment of youth-related issues from the early 20th century until the present day.
All documents and other primary sources will be posted on the course website; articles will be e-mailed.
Requirements:
- Exams (midterm and final): 55 percent
- Group presentation: 25 percent
- Reading-based quizzes (2 lowest grades dropped): 10 percent
- Participation: 10 percent
My Contact Information:
- email: kcjohnson9@gmail.com
- cell: 207-329-8456
- skype: kcjohnson9
- office hours: Tuesday/Thursday, 12.30-1.30, Whitehead 502
Schedule
January 29: The Pre-20th Century Background
- Gwendoline Alphonso, “Hearth and Soul: Economics and Culture in Partisan Conceptions of the Family in the Progressive Era, 1900–1920,” Studies in American Political Development
- Kathleen Sullivan, “Marriage and Federal Police Power,” Studies in American Political Development
- Chris Guthrie and Joanna L. Grossman, “Adoption in the Progressive Era: Preserving, Creating, and Re-Creating Families,” American Journal of Legal History
February 5: Youth Culture & the 1920s
- Edward Larson, “An American Tragedy: Retelling the Leopold-Loeb Story in Popular Culture,” American Journal of Legal History
- J. Lemons, “The Sheppard-Towner Act: Progressivism in the 1920s,” The Journal of American History
- Michael Pisapia, “The Authority of Women in the Political Development of American Public Education, 1860–1930,” Studies in American Political Development
February 7: The New Deal & the American State
- Carpenter & Sin, “Policy Tragedy and the Emergence of Regulation: The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938,” Studies in American Political Development
- Farhang & Katznelson, “The Southern Imposition: Congress and Labor in the New Deal and Fair Deal,” Studies in American Political Development
- Paula Fass, “Without Design: Education Policy in the New Deal,” American Journal of Education
February 12: No classes—college holiday
February 14: Higher Education, Public Schools, and the Path to Brown
- Kevin McMahon, “Constitutional Vision and Supreme Court Decisions: Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race,” Studies in American Political Development
- Michael Klarman, “How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis,” Journal of American History
- Joan Malczewski, “’The Schools Lost Their Isolation’: Interest Groups and Institutions in Educational Policy Development in the Jim Crow South,” Journal of Policy History
February 19: Shaping the Next Generation: Cold War Education
- Bruce Dierenfield, “Secular Schools? Religious Practices in New York and Virginia Public Schools since World War II,” Journal of Policy History
- Jonathan Herzog, “America’s Spiritual-Industrial Complex and the Policy of Revival in the Early Cold War,” Journal of Policy History
February 21: The Great Society
- Sidney Milkis, The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism, chapters 4, 9, 12, 16.
February 26: Youth Issues and the Warren Court’s Legacy
- Joseph Crespino, “The Best Defense Is a Good Offense: The Stennis Amendment and the Fracturing of Liberal School Desegregation Policy, 1964-1972,” Journal of Policy History
- Erwin Chemerinsky, “Do Students Leave Their First Amendment Rights at the Schoolhouse Door?,”
February 28: The Path to Loving
- Peggy Pascoe, “Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of ‘Race’ in Twentieth-Century America”. Journal of American History
- Gregory Michael Dorr, “Principled Expediency: Eugenics, Naim v. Naim, and the Supreme Court”, American Journal of Legal History
March 5: Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Public Intellectual & Policymaking
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- Mark C. Radhert, “Obstacles and Wrong Turns on the Road From Brown: Milliken v. Bradley and the Quest for Racial Diversity in Education,” Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review
- James T. Hannon, “The Influence of Catholic Schools on the Desegregation of Public School Systems: A Case Study of White Flight in Boston,” Population Research and Policy Review
- Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel, “Before (and After) Roe v. Wade,” Yale Law Journal
- Melvin Urofsky, “William O. Douglas as a Common Law Judge,” Duke Law Journal
March 14: Midterm exam
March 19: Wolfe Scholar Event–location TBA
March 21: Conservatives & “Family Values” in the 1970s
- Kimberly Morgan, “A Child of the Sixties: The Great Society, the New Right, and the Politics of Child Care,” Journal of Policy History
- Robert Freedman, “The Religious Right and the Carter Administration,” The Historical Journal
Spring Break
April 4: Diversity, Affirmative Action, & the Changing Nature of University Education
- Guido Calabresi, “Bakke as Pseudo-Tragedy,” Catholic Law Review
- Lee Epstein and Jack Knight, “Piercing the Veil,” Yale Law and Policy Review
April 9: The Republican Years
- Susannah Tobin, “Defining Hazelwood,” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
- Neal Devins, “How Planned Parenthood v. Casey (Pretty Much) Settled the Abortion Wars,” Yale Law Journal
April 11: Clinton & Triangulation
- Franklin Gilliam, “The “Welfare Queen” Experiment: How Viewers React to Images of African-American Mothers on Welfare,” Nieman Reports
- Peter Edelman, “The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done,” Atlantic
- Alessia Bell, “Public and Private Child: Troxel v. Granville and the Constitutional Rights of Family Members,” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
April 16: Youth & Public Policy during the Bush Years
- Martin West and Paul Peterson, “The Politics and Practice of Accountability,’ from No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of Accountability.
- Diane Ravitch, “Stop the Madness,” from The Death and Life of the Great American School System.
- Reva Siegel, “From Colorblindness to Antibalkanization: An Emerging Ground of Decision in Race Equality Cases,” Yale Law Journal, pp. 1280-1315 only.
April 18: Campus Diversity in the 1990s and Bush Years
- Kors & Silverglate, Shadow University, intro, chapter one
- Robert P. George, “Gratz and Grutter: Some Hard Questions,” Columbia Law Review
- Cass R. Sunstein, “Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Why Grutter Was Correctly Decided ,” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
April 23: Campus Diversity, Due Process, & the Duke Lacrosse Case
- R. Michael Cassidy, “The Prosecutor and the Press: Lessons (Not) Learned from the Mike Nifong Debacle,” Law and Contemporary Problems
- Rachel Smolkin, “Justice Delayed,” American Journalism Review
April 25: Marriage Equality, Family, & Children as a Political Issue
- Michael Klarman, “How Same-Sex Marriage Came to Be,” Harvard Magazine
- Frank Schubert, “Passing Prop 8,” Campaigns & Elections
April 30: Youth & Politics in the Obama Era
- American Freshmen Survey
- Jonathan Cohn, “The Hell of American Day Care,” The New Republic
May 2: Diversity on Campus in the Obama Era
- Richard Sander & Stuart Taylor, Mismatch (selections)
- Greg Lukianoff, Unlearning Liberty (selections)
May 7: Group presentations 1: Moot courts, 4-person teams
- Hollingsworth v. Perry
- Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, et al. v. Regents of the Univ. of Mich., et al.
May 9: Group presentations 2: Moot court, 4-person team; policy recommendations, 5-person team
- Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
- school violence
May 14: Group presentations 3: 4-person groups
- Race to the Top, No Child Left Behind, student loans & federal education policy
- due process & student rights on campus
May 16: Review class–Jeopardy!
