MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
History
3001/5001
Spring, 2008
California
& the American West
Mr.
Bowling
Books:
George
Rippey Stewart, California
Trail:
An Epic with Many
Heroes (Lincoln, 1986).
Richard
J. Orsi, Sunset
Limited; The Southern Pacific Railroad
&
the Development of the American West (Berkeley, 2007).
Douglas
Cazaux Sackman, Orange
Empire; California & the
Fruits of Eden (Berkeley, 2007).
Simon
Winchester, A
Crack in the Edge of the World; America & the
Great California Earthquake of
1906
(New York, 2006).
Tom
Sittan & William
Deverell,
eds, Metropolis
in the Making; Los
Angeles in the 1920s (Berkeley,
2001).
Neil
Gabler, Walt
Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
(New York, 2007).
Valerie
Matsumoto, Farming
the Home Place: A Japanese American
Community in California, 1919-1982 (Ithaca,
1994).
Ethan
Rarick, California Rising; The Life
& Times of Pat Brown (Berkeley,
2006).
Charles
Wollenberg. Berkeley; A City in History (Berkeley, 2008).
Requirements:
1.
Attendance.
2. Participation.
3. Readings.
4. Successful completion of two examinations.
5.
A
critical paper, c. 15 pp. for undergraduates, c. 25 pp.
for graduate students, a complete,
typewritten draft of
which is due on March 20th.
Schedule:
Jan. 14
California Dreaming:
Introduction
Jan.
21
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY
Jan.
30 On
the California Trail
(Stewart)
Feb. 4 & 11 The
S.P. Story
(Orsi)
Feb. 18
The Story
of the Orange
(Sackman)
Feb. 25
The San
Francisco Catastrophe
(Winchester)
Mar.
3
M I D T E R M E X A M I N A T I O N
Mar. 10
S P R I N G B R E A K
Mar. 17 The
City of the Angels Grows Up
(Sitton & Deverell)
Mar. 24
& 31 The
Man Behind the Mouse
(Gabler)
c o m p l e t e , t y p e w r i t t e n d r a f t
o f
p a p e r i s d u e
March
24th .
Apr.
7 The Agricultural
World in the 20th Century
(Matsumoto)
Apr. 14
The
Rise of the Democrats & its Consequences
(Rarick)
Apr. 21 "Bezerkeley":
Capital of the Left Coast
(Wollenberg)