Concluding Lecture in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 25: Concluding Lecture

Lecture 24 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 24: Bush and Clinton Part I

Lecture 23 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 23: The End of the Cold War

Lecture 22 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 22: Reagan in the World

Lecture 21 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 21: The Reagan Revolution

Richard Nixon

Lecture 19 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 19: Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon

Lecture 18 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 18: Antifeminism and the Religious Right

Lecture 17 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 17: The Feminist Movement

Lecture 16 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 16: LBJ’s Great Society

Lecture 15 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 15: Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll

Lectures from a University of Virginia course on post-1945 American history

Lecture 12 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 12: The 60s: Reform to Revolution

Lecture 10 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 10: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Lecture 9 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 9: Civil Rights 2: Reconstruction Redux

Lecture 8 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 8: Civil Rights 1: Building a Movement

Lecture 6 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 6: In the Shadow of the Bomb: Postwar Culture

Lecture 5 in Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 5: The Korean War

Lecture 2 in Professor Jennifer Burns\'s U.S. Society and Politics Course

Lecture 2: Origins of the Cold War

U.S. Society and Politics Introductory lecture

Introductory Lecture

This course provides a decent overview of some aspects of U.S. history since 1945, but I found Dr. Burns&#39; discussion of social movements on the left (labor, civil rights, feminism, environmentalism) to be deeply frustrating. She hews to the discredited &#34;good sixties/bad sixties&#34; dichotomy, and consistently portrays the political right as responding to the left &#34;going too far.&#34; Her obvious disdain for unions, the welfare state, and anything that smacks of radicalism colors her narrative to the point of distortion and oversimplification. Of course, most U.S. academic historians are liberals, and one can argue that most of them similarly distort movements on the right. Fair enough. But I don&#39;t think that Dr. Burns is a fair or reliable narrator of recent U.S. political history.

Decent overview weakened by conservative bias

Basic yet insightful. Plain yet thoughtful. Love it! Thank you!

Great!

United States History, post-1945

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