KC Johnson

Requirements

• Research Paper: 50%
• Participation: 30%
• Supplementary Reading: 10%
• Summary Review: 10%

Books: (all available through amazon.com, at link below)

• Don Doyle., The Cause of All Nations
• Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights
• John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
• Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
• Waldo Heinrichs, Threshold of War
• Kristin Hoganson, A Consumers’ Imperium
• Ronald Johnson, Diplomacy in Black and White
• Fredrik Logevall, Embers of War
• Hans Schmidt, The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
• James Wilson, A Triumph of Improvisation
• Bob Woodward, War
• Philip Zelikow, The Road Less Traveled

My Contact Information:

• email: kcjohnson9@gmail.com
• cell: 207-329-8456

Schedule:

August 26: Organization & Intro

September 2: Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy

U.S. Constitution & ratifying debates–foreign policy matters

Ronald Johnson, Diplomacy in Black and White

September 9: Civil War

Don Doyle., The Cause of All Nations [Christian]

supplementary reading: Robert May, Manifest Destiny’s Underworld [Shlomo]

September 16: Growth of U.S. Power  

• Kristin Hoganson, A Consumers’ Imperium [Izabela]

Supplementary Reading:  Walter LaFeber, The New Empire

John Thompson, Great Power Rising

Sept. 23 No class (per college schedule)

September 30: Wilsonianism  and World War I:

• Philip Zelikow, The Road Less Traveled [Shlomo]

Supplementary Reading: Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment [Amy]

October 7: Interwar Imperialism []

• Hans Schmidt, The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934 [Ben]

Supplementary Reading: Emily Rosenberg, Financial Missionaries to the World

October 14: No class (per college schedule)

October 21: Onset of War []

• Waldo Heinrichs, Threshold of War

Supplementary Reading: Ernest May, Strange Victory [Christian]

October 28: Containment []

• John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life [Dan]

Supplementary Reading: Thomas Alan Schwartz, America’s Germany: [Dominique]

November 4: Domestic & International Affairs

Mary Dudziak, Cold War & Civil Rights [Amy]

supplementary reading:

David Johnson, The Lavender Scare [Izabela]

November 11: Vietnam []

Fredrik Logevall, Embers of War [Sonia]

Supplementary Reading: (Thomas Alan Schwartz, Lyndon Johnson and Europe): [Alton[

November 18: Third World Adventurism []

• Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 [Dominique]

Supplementary Reading:  

(James Baker, The Politics of Diplomacy): Daniel

Nov. 25: The Cold War Ends

• James Wilson, A Triumph of Improvisation [Alton]

Supplementary Reading:  (Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11) [Sonia]

December 2: Modern Diplomacy []

Bob Woodward, War

supplementary reading: Richard Haass, A World in Disarray [Ben]

December 9: Review