Syllabus

Exams

Terms

Graduate Students

Graduate
Student
Papers

	Wirls, Daniel. Buildup: The Politics of Defense in the Reagan Era. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
	Pierson, Paul. Dismantling the Welfare State?: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

A comparative study of the US and Great Britain’s reduction of social welfare programs in the 1980s.

	Kloepfer, Deanne. The Watt Record: James Watt and Wilderness: The Environmental Policies of the Reagan Administration. Washington, D.C.: Wilderness Society, 1983.
	Cawley, R. McGreggor. Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
	Chavez, Lydia. The Color Bind: California's Battle to End Affirmative Action. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
	Strasser, Mark. Legally Wed: Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997.
	Shilts, Randy. The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life & Times of Harvey Milk. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.

Perea, Juan F., ed. Immigrants Out!: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

	Lamphere, Louise, Alex Stepick, and Guillermo Grenier, eds. Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
	Boaz, David, ed. Assessing the Reagan Years. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1988.

Collections of essays

Film and Video

And the Band Played On. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. 140m. 1993. Videorecording.

Follows the struggle of a handful of men and women who took on the fight to save lives in the face of AIDS. In IMC.

Earth First! Journal

Homepage of the radical environmental group headquartered in Eugene, OR. http://www.enviroweb.org/ef/

Put Yourself There: 
      Debates, Documents, and First Person Accounts

Rubin, Eva R. The Abortion Controversy: A Documentary History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1994.

Includes several documents from the Reagan years.

Bruno, Andorra. California Civil Rights Initiative. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, The Library of Congress, 1997.

Proposition 209, the measure that ended California’s Affirmative Action programs. In Government Documents.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families. Hearing on English as a Common Language: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families of the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, October 18, 1995. Washington: U.S. G.P.O.:, 1995.

The English-only debate. In Government Documents.

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. The Defense of Marriage Act: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session on S. 1740 ... July 11, 1996. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1996.

In Government Documents.