MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
History 1012
Spring, 2009
Development of America II
Mr. Bowling
F. Leroy
Books to be purchased:
*Pauline
Maier et al., Inventing America (New York, 2nd ed.,
006), vol. II .
Heather Cox Richardson, West from Appomattox; The Reconstruction
of America After
the Civil War (New Haven, 2007).
Stefano Luconi, From Paesani to White Ethnics; The Italian Experience
in Philadelphia (Ithaca, 2001).
William Silber, When Washington Shut Down Wall Street; The Great
Financial Crisis
of 1914 & the Origins of America’s Monetary
Supermacy
(Princeton, 2006).
Edward Amenta, When Movements Matter; The Townsend Plan & the
Rise of Social
Security (Princeton, 2006).
Karen Ann Marling, Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America’s
Greatest Holiday
(Cambridge, Mass., 2001).
Silvan S. Schweber, In the Shadow of the Bomb; Oppenheimer,
Bethe, & the
Moral Responsibility of the Scientist (Princeton, 2006).
Objectives
Measured by the Examinations:
·
Factual knowledge of the historical essence of the subject via readings
& lectures
·
Factual knowledge of the international dimensions of the subject
·
Practice of succinct written expression to demonstrate knowledge
·
Practice of essay-writing to demonstrate general comprehension of factual
material backed up by specifics, along with critical/analytical interpretation
as to the “why” behind events, trends, and outcomes
Requirements:
1.
Attendance.
2. Participation.
3. Readings.
4. Successful completion of
three examinations.
Schedule:
Jan.
22
Introduction
Maier, ch.
17
The
United States in 1865
The Andrew
Johnson Story
Jan. 26-29
The South "Redeemed"
Maier, chs. 18/19
On the Road to Number One
Feb. 2-5
Social Darwinism
Maier, ch. 20
The Frontier “Closed”
Richardson
Feb. 9-12 The New
American Worker
Luconi
The New Immigration
The New University
The Old Politics
Feb. 16-19 Discontented on
the Farm
Maier, ch. 21
The Populist Moment
Feb. 23
The Election of 1896
The
United States Looking Outward
Feb. 26 F
I R S T E X A M I N A T I O N
Mar. 2-5
The Progressive Vision
Maier, ch. 22
Theodore Roosevelt, Man
Silber
of the Hour
Mar. 9-12 S
P R I N G B R E A K
Mar. 16-19 Republican
Crack-up
Maier, ch. 23
The Wilsonian Moment
Amenta
Mar. 23-26 Keeping
U.S. Out of War
The Great Crusade
Mar. 30 What Were
the 1920s?
Maier, chs. 24/25
The Great Crash
Origins of the Welfare State
Apr. 2
S E C O N D
E X A M I N A T I O N
Apr. 6-9 Keeping U.S.
Out of W.W.II
America’s 2nd Crusade
Maier, chs. 26/27
Apr. 13-16 Origins of the
Cold War
Marling
Red Scare II
Maier, chs. 28/29
What Were the 1950s?
Schweber
Apr. 20-23
The Second Reconstruction
“The Kids”
Maier, the rest
Apr. 27-30 1968: Year of
Crisis
The
Vietnam Story
After the Sixties Blowout