The American Pageant - Chapter 38

Ch. 38 - The Eisenhower Era

Resources

• Chapter 38 .PDF
• Talking Points: The Election of '52, Eisenhower, and Moderate Republicanism (.doc)
• Talking Points: Ike and the Cold War Spike (.doc)
• Lecture: The Range of Civil Rights Activism (.doc)
• Chapter 38 Outline
• Watch The Century, America's Time: Happy Daze (YouTube) (Study Guide)
• Watch The Century, America's Time: Poisoned Dreams 1960-1963 (YouTube) (Study Guide)

Readings

• "Frontierland as Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Architectural Packaging of the Mythic West" by Michael Steiner, Montanta, The Magazine of Western History 47 (Spring 1998) - Disucssion

The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy (p. 890) 

• Watch Good Night, and Good Luck

Seeds of the Civil Rights Revolution (p. 894)

• Read Desegregation at Central High School (Beals) and answer question(s). (1957) 
• Read Desegregation at Central High School (Rains) and answer question(s). (1957)

Kennedy Challenges Nixon for the Presidency (p. 905)

• Pro-Kennedy Song: "High Hopes with Jack Kennedy" by Sinatra (1960 - Lyrics)
• "Kennedy for President" 1960 Commercial
• JFK Election Ad: Ike Knocks Nixon (1960)
• More Nixon/Kennedy election ads can be found here

The Presidential Issues of 1960 (p. 906)

• Listen to JFK's Inaugural Address (1961)

Changing Economic Patterns (p. 908)

• Read an excerpt from Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and answer question(s). (1963)

Consumer Culture in the Fifties (p. 911)