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21H.131 America in the Nuclear Age, Fall 2000

Glenn T. Seaborg, discoverer of plutonium and Chairman of the AEC, 1961 to 1971. (Image courtesy of the U.S. DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments site.)

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Course Description

This course examines the American experience at home and abroad from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Cold War. Topics include: America's role as global superpower, foreign and domestic anticommunism, social movements of left and right, suburbanization, and popular culture.

Staff

Instructor:
Prof. Meg Jacobs

Course Meeting Times

Lectures:
Two sessions / week
1.5 hours / session

Level

Undergraduate

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