- Docente: Raffaella Baritono
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SPS/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Political, Social and International Sciences (cod. 8853)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in International Development and Cooperation (cod. 8890)
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from Sep 17, 2024 to Dec 19, 2024
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide an overview of the most important historical events of the United States history from the Revolution through the 1990s. At the end of the course, the students knows the main aspects of the American history from a political, social, economic and cultural perspective. He/she is able to critically analyze the most relevant periods of the American historical development, to know the most important events and to contextualize them.
Course contents
The course will examine the most relevant problems of the American political and social history. Particular emphasis will be on the transatlantic and global dimensions of American historical events. The course will be organized in lectures and in seminars that will focus on a specific topic concerning the US history and politics. A special emphasis will be devoted to the contested problem of the citizenship rights in the US historical experience, in terms of race, ethnicity, class and gender differences.
Contents and syllabus of the seminar will be illustrated in class. Please, check web platform Virtuale for more information.
Students are required to attend all classes (at least 80% of them). Attending students will be required to pass the oral exam within the February 2025 session. After that date, they will be admitted as non-attending students. More details will be provided in class. However, students are required to check the information sheet uploaded on the platform Virtuale.
Non-attending students: oral exam
The course is organized with lectures taught in presence.
Readings/Bibliography
Readings assigned to attending students
Robert V. Remini, Breve Storia degli Stati Uniti, Milano, Bompiani, 2017.
Essays discussed in class; notes.
Readings for non-attending students.
Mandatory readings:
Robert V. Remini, Breve Storia degli Stati Uniti, Milano, Bompiani, 2017.
Two books to be chosen in the following list:
Raffaella Baritono, Eleanor Roosevelt. Una biografia politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2021, capitoli 1,2 e 3.
Raffaella Baritono e Elisabetta Vezzosi, a cura di, Oltre il secolo americano? Gli Stati Uniti prima e dopo l'11 settembre, Roma, Carocci, 2011.
Matteo Battistini, Una Rivoluzione per lo Stato. Thomas Paine e la Rivoluzione americana nel Mondo Atlantico, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2012
Matteo Battistini, Storia di un feticcio. La classe media americana dalle origini alla globalizzazione, Milano, Mimesis, 2020
Duccio Basosi, Finanza e petrolio. Gli Stati Uniti, l'oro nero e l'economia politica internazionale, Venezia, Edizione Studio LT2, 2012
Claudia Bernardi, Una storia di confine. Frontiere e lavoratori migranti tra Messico e Stati Uniti (1836-1964), Roma, Carocci, 2018.
Tiziano Bonazzi, Lincoln. Un dramma americano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.
Tiziano Bonazzi, La rivoluzione americana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018.
Alessandra Bitumi, La Comunità atlantica. Europa e Stati Uniti in età contemporanea, Roma, Carocci, 2023
Bruno Cartosio, I lunghi anni Sessanta, Milano Feltrinelli, 2012
M. Cento, L’ideologia atlantica. La delegittimazione politica dalla Guerra fredda culturale al neoconservatorismo (1936-1967), Mondadori Education, Milano, 2023
Alice Ciulla, La cultura americana e il PCI, Roma, Carocci, 2021
Angela Davis, Blues e femminismo nero, Roma, Alegre, 2022
Mario Del Pero, Henry Kissinger e l'ascesa dei neoconservatori. Alle origini della politica estera americana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006.
Ferdinando Fasce, Le anime del commercio. Pubblicità e consumi nel secolo americano, Carocci, 2012
Daniele Fiorentino, Il pluralismo culturale. Un dibattito americano (1915-1916), Roma, Viella, 2021
Stefano Luconi e Matteo Pretelli, L'immigrazione negli Stati Uniti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008
Stefano Luconi e Matteo Pretelli, ‘Nazione di immigrati’ o ‘fortezza America’? Gli Stati Uniti e le minoranze etniche nel XXI secolo, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2024
Marco Mariano, L'America nell'Occidente. Storia della dottrina Monroe (1823-1963), Roma, Carocci, 2013
Serena Mocci, Donne e impero nell’Ottocento americano. La cultura politica di Lydia Maria Child e Margaret Fuller, Roma, Viella, 2023,
Jacopo Perazzoli, «Per la pace del diritto». Woodrow Wilson e la sua eredità, dalla Grande Guerra allo shock della globalizzazione, Carocci, 2022
Angela Santese, La pace atomica. Ronald Reagan e il movimento antinucleare (1979-1987), Le Monnier, 2016
Marco Sioli, All’ombra di Mao. W.E.B. DuBois un afroamericano tra Urss, Cina e Africa, Roma, Teti edizioni, 2021
Arnaldo Testi, I fastidi della storia. Quale America raccontano i monumenti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2023
Walter Bruno Renato Toscano, Pantere nere America bianca, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2023
Nadia Venturini, La strada per Selma. La mobilitazione afroamericana e il Voting Rights Act del 1965, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2015
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars
Assessment methods
For attending students: The examination will consist of an oral exam to be passed within the February 2025 session. The oral exam will focus on Remini's book, on notes concerning the topics discussed in class and materials concerning the seminar. After that date, students will be admitted to the oral exam as non-attending students.
For non-attending students: oral exam on Remini's book and on the two monographs chosen among those listed above.
Teaching tools
power point presentations
Office hours
See the website of Raffaella Baritono
SDGs




This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.