Spring 2023: Siegal College of Case Western Reserve University —> America in the 1950s (in-person)
Instructor(s) - Earl Leiken - Instructor of Lifelong Learning
Location -Landmark Centre Building
Date - Fridays, April 7–May 26
Time - 10:30 a.m.– noon ET
This course analyzes significant events of the 1950s including the growth of the middle class, the move to suburbia, development of new industries, the emergence of television and creation of the national highway system. Racial events covered include the Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Brown school decision and the anti-communist anxiety of the era reflected in the blacklist and McCarthyism. Internationally, we’ll review U.S. assumption of world leadership, the Cold War, the Korean War, nuclear policy, and covert CIA operations in other countries. The politics of the era include the Eisenhower-Stevenson and Kennedy- Nixon contests. Class discussion will compare the 1950s with life today and the impact of that decade on the world in which we live now.
Read: The Fifties, David Halberstam
This course is offered with the generous support of the Association for Continuing Education.
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January - March 2023: WWII, America to the Rescue and the Caine Mutiny, Fridays @ 10:30 am ET
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This course is about the 1940s in American and world history and the roles of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. It includes a study of the events giving rise to World War II, the U.S. in the period before Pearl Harbor, the war in the European and Pacific theatres, the origins and history of the Holocaust, America’s special role in saving the civilized world and the U.S. at home and internationally in the post-war world. Class discussion will focus on the relevance of these events to today’s domestic and international challenges. We’ll also watch one of the great movies to emerge from the war – The Caine Mutiny. We will read No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin. This course is offered with the generous support of the Association for Continuing Education.
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Guest Speaker - Levin Leadership Series
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Previous Courses
*The American Local Community - its Roles and Challenges
*The Social and Economic Policies of the Biden Administration
*The American Economy and its Challenges
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Law Review Articles
Preferential Treatment in the Skilled Building Trades an Analysis of the Philadelphia Plan (Cornell Law Review)
The Current and Potential Equal Employment Role of the NLRB (Duke Law Journal)
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