Litteratur
Arthur Miller: The Crucible,
Joseph Heller: Catch-22,
Jack Kerouac: On the Road,
John Updike: Rabbit, Run,
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun,
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar,
The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Fifth Edition Shorter),
Utvalg:
- Allen Ginsberg. "Howl", Part I
- Bernard Malamud. "The Magic Barrel"
- Gwendolyn Brooks "To the Diaspora"
- Sylvia Plath: "Lady Lazarus"
Kompendium (UniPub):,
- Gwendolyn Brooks. "The Lovers of the Poor"
- James Baldwin. "Sonny's Blues"
- Grace Paley, "The Loudest Voice"
- Bob Dylan. "The Times They Are A-Changin'" , "With God on Our Side"
Kulturkunnskap
Paul S. Boyer: Promises to Keep: The United States since World War II, 2nd ed., 1999. Chapters 3-11.
William Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff, eds.: A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America. 5th ed. , 1999.
Utvalg:
Part 1. The Cold War Abroad and At Home
- Introduction
- The Need to Contain Soviet Expansion - George F. Kennan
- The Truman Doctrine - Harry S. Truman
- NSC-68: A Report to the National Security Council
- HUAC Investigates Hollywood
- The Internal Communist Menace - Joseph R. McCarthy
Part 2. The Politics of the Affluent Society
- Introduction
- A Revisionist View of the Ike Age - Stephen Ambrose
- Reevaluating JFK's Presidency - Lance Morrow
Part 3. Civil Rights
- Introduction
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Message to the Grass Roots - Malcome X
Part 4. Feminism
- Introduction
- Women's Consciousness and the Southern Black Movement - Sara Evans
- Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory - bell hooks
Part 5. Vietnam and the Years of Polarization
- Introduction
- Causes of the War - Leslie Gelb
- The Port Huron Statement - Students for a Democratic Society
- Rise and Fall of a Counterculture - Allen J. Matusow
- The Forgotten American - Peter Schrag