CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

Core educational activity or free elective course.

At the end of the course students will be expected to know the US constitution and the political system, to identify and interpret the key events of the national history, its economic and political continuities and fractures, to know the main political cultures that have characterized the American democracy and its party system, and to know the main themes of historiographical debates on the making of the American State and nation.

No Pre-requirements for this course.

The course will study the history of the United States, looking at the political institutions and the economic, social and cultural understandings that have shaped the making of the American State, from the revolutionary birth of the Republic up today. The course is divided in two parts: 1) from the Revolution to the First World War; 2) from the interwar period to nowadays.

Program for attending students
1) Arnaldo Testi, La formazione degli Stati Uniti, Bologna, Il Mulino 2003;
2) Arnaldo Testi, Il secolo degli Stati Uniti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017

Program for non-attentding students:
1) Arnaldo Testi, La formazione degli Stati Uniti, Il Mulino 2003
2) Arnaldo Testi, Il secolo degli Stati Uniti, Il Mulino, 2017
3) And two between:
Matteo Battistini, Una Rivoluzione per lo Stato. Thomas Paine e la Rivoluzione americana nel Mondo Atlantico, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2012
Tiziano Bonazzi, Abraham Lincoln. Un dramma americano, Il Mulino, 2016
Tiziano Bonazzi, La rivoluzione americana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018
Bruno Cartosio, I lunghi anni Sessanta: movimenti sociali e cultura politica negli Stati Uniti, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2012.
Bruno Cartosio, La grande frattura: concentrazione della ricchezza e disuguaglianze negli Stati Uniti, Verona, Ombre corte, 2013.
Nadia Venturini, La strada per Selma: la mobilitazione afroamericana e il Voting Rights Act del 1965, Milano, Angeli, 2015
A. Santese, La pace atomica. Ronald Reagan e il movimento antinucleare (1979-1987), Le Monnier, 2016
Elisabetta Vezzosi, Madri e Stato. Politiche sociali negli Stati Uniti del Novecento, Roma, Carocci, 2002
Robert Wiebe, La democrazia americana, a cura di Tiziano Bonazzi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009

For Attending Students: one written text.
For Non-Attending Students: one written text followed by a final oral test.

Traditional lectures
Teaching tools: Essays, Power Point.

Italian

written and oral