MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
History
3001/5001
Summer, 2007
California & the American
West
Mr. Bowling
Requirements:
| 1. Attendance. | ||
| 2. Participation. | ||
| 3. Readings. | ||
| 4. Oral reports from library research (some class time provided; longer for graduate students). | ||
| 5. Successful completion of two examinations. |
Readings:
| James J. J. Rawls, et
al., California; An Interpretive History, 9th ed. (New York, 2006). |
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| George
Evans, Mexican Gold Trail; The Journey of a Forty- Niner (Berkeley, 2006). |
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| Richard J. Schmidt, This
is the City; Making Model Citizens in Los Angeles (Minneapolis, 2005). |
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| William Deverell
& Greg Hise, eds., Land of Sunshine; An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (Pittsburgh, 2005). |
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| Valeria Belletti, Adventures
of a Hollywood Secretary; Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s (Berkeley, 2006). |
Topics:
"Go
West..."
The "New Western History"
Mission
California
The Arrival
of the Americans
The Texas
Model & Manifest Destiny
"California Republic" & The Great Pathfinder
California
Gold
The Railroad
Comes
The Mormon
Story
What was
Homesteading?
Immigrants
from Afar
The End of
the "Wild Indian"
The Economy
of the Post-Civil War West
The Big Four
The Chinese
Problem, "Solved"
California,
Land of Agriculture
The Water
Issue
Political
Reform comes to the West
Hiram
Johnson, Man of the Hour
Hollywood,
U.S.A.
E.P.I.C.
Struggle
The Okies
Move West
The Effects
of the Second World War
The
Internment Story
Communists in
Hollywood & Berkeley?
The Suburban
Dream in California
San Francisco
Bohemia/Beach Boy World: Fun, Fun, Fun
Free Speech
at Cal, 1964
From Watts to
Oakland
Ronald
Reagan,
"Citizen-Politician"
"Summer
of Love," 1967
Mexicans
& Mexican-Americans
Too Much
Growth?
The Message
of Proposition 13
From Red to
Blue
On the Eve of
the Pacific Century