Course Schedule — REVISED 5/21/09
Studies in History: “1968”
Summer 2009

LADS 6371-01		R 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Studies in History: “1968”		FLEX 118

Required Reading

Carey, Elaine. Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, & Terror in 1968 Mexico. Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2005
ISBN-10: 0826335454 ISBN-13: 978-0826335456
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Harper, 2006.
ISBN-10: 0060883286 ISBN-13: 978-0060883287
Giles, Robert H., & Robert W. Snyder, Eds. 1968: Year of Media Decision. Transaction, 1999. 
ISBN-10: 0765806215 ISBN-13: 978-0765806215
Kaiser, Charles. 1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation. Grove, 1997. 
ISBN-10: 0802135307 ISBN-13: 978-0802135308
Ross, Kirstin. May ’68 and Its Afterlives. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
ISBN-10: 0226727998 ISBN-13: 978-0226727998
Shen, Fan. Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard. U of Nebraska Press, 2006. 
ISBN 0803293364, 9780803293366
Suri, Jeremi. The Global Revolutions of 1968. 2007. ISBN-10: 039392744XISBN-13: 978-0393927443
Williams, Kieran. The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN-10: 0521588030 ISBN-13: 978-0521588034

Date

Topic

Reading

Assignments

“1968”

21 MAY	“Modernity”	Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years, All Suri, 1968, x-82 & Links
28 MAY	“May '68”	Ross, May '68, All Suri, 1968, 132-41 & Links	REVIEW DUE
4 JUNE	“Prague Spring”	Williams, The Prague Spring, All Suri, 1968, 158-84 & Links	REVIEW DUE
11 JUNE	“The Plaza”	Carey, Plaza of Sacrifices, All Suri, 1968, 184-206 & Links	REVIEW DUE
18 JUNE	“Red Guard”	Shen, Gang of One, All Suri, 1968, 83-5 & Links	REVIEW DUE
25 JUNE	“The Dream”	Kaiser, 1968 in America, All Suri, 1968, 141-83, 206-45 & Links	REVIEW DUE
2 JULY	“The Media”	Giles & Snyder, eds, 1968, As Assigned Suri, 1968, 247-323 & Links	REVIEW DUE

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