I.   Backgrounds:

  Historical:
    Post-World War I and Technology
    The Future
    New Ideologies
    The Great Depression       
        Creating Better Worlds
        Popular Culture

  Cultural:
        Fragmentation: High and Popular Culture
        Mass Media: Magazines, Books, Film, Radio
            The Fiction Magazines: The Pulps
        American and British SF

II.  The Golden Age:
    Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967) and Amazing Stories (1926- )
    Astounding Science Fiction/Analog (1930- )
        John W. Campbell, Jr. (1910-1971): editor (1937-71)

III. The Authors:
    Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
    Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
    Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008 )
    Jack Williamson (1908-2006 )
    Poul Anderson (1926-2001)
    James Blish (1921-1975)
    Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923-1958)
    Judith Merril (1923-1997)
    Frederik Pohl (1919-2013)
    Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985)
    A. E. van Vogt (1912-2000)

IV. The Iconography of Science Fiction
   Early French SF Art:
http://singularityhub.com/2012/10/15/19th-century-french-artists-predicted-the-world-of-the-future-in-this-series-of-postcards/ 

 Pulp Magazine Art:
Golden Age PowerPoint