Communism and American Life

FAIN: FV-50359-13

Emory University (Atlanta, GA 30322-1018)
Harvey E. Klehr (Project Director: March 2013 to December 2014)

A five-week summer seminar for sixteen school teachers on the history of, and issues surrounding, the Communist movement in America from the 1930s through the Cold War era.

This is a five week summer seminar for school teachers on "Communism and American Life." The participants will confront the historical choices, moral dilemmas and intellectual problems that communism posed through a close reading and examination of several of the most powerful and influential novels, essays, plays and autobiographies that emerged from the 1930s.