Readings and Films Guides

For most of the course sessions, the readings and films have accompanying guides. These are featured in the table below.

Note: There are no guides for Sessions 1, 2, 8, 10, 11, 15–18, 20, and 22.

SES # READINGS AND FILMS GUIDES
3 The Dawn of the Nuclear Age (PDF)
4 Duck and Cover: Civil Defense (PDF)
5 Domestic Containment and the Nuclear Family (PDF)
6 McCarthyism and the Red Scare (PDF)
7 Sex, Gender, and the Lavender Scare (PDF)
9 The Emergence of Computing Technology (PDF)
12 Organization Men and Their Critics (PDF)
13 Suburbanization, White Flight, and Urban Crisis (PDF)
14 The Malling of America (PDF)
19 Delinquents and Rebels: The 1950s as Prelude to the 1960s (PDF)
21 Rethinking Nature in a Nuclear Age (PDF)
23 Legacies of the Cold War and the Unfolding Nuclear Age (PDF)