Explain the concept of “periodization” and how it both helps historians designate a period of time to study, as well as track changes over time. Explain how democracy has expanded and constricted in the periods we have studied in the second half of the semester: The Roaring Twenties, Great Depression Era, WWII Era, Post-War America, 1960s, and Modern America.
Good Answers will explain the following:
1.) How did the Democratic and Republican political parties go through the “realignment”?
2.) How did the social movements we have discussed: feminism, labor, and civil rights impact the development of democracy in these various time periods? Specify with names of figures in the movements and actions the movements took.
3.) How did FDR and the legacy of the Progressive Era impact the creation of the New Deal?
4.) What was the coalition that created the so-called “New Right” of the Republican Party? How did this develop from Goldwater to Reagan?
5.) In Norman O. Brown’s reasoning, what is holy and unholy madness? How does this relate to periodization? What is the concept of “reaching the end of the tether” for ending a time period in history? How does the flaws of the Cold War logic in the US and USSR show this? Specifically, look at the materials on how the “third world” was treated in the Cold War, and Rod Serling’s argument in the Twilight Zone episode “The Shelter.”
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