MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

History 1012                                                                       Spring, 2008
Development of America II                                           Mr. Bowling
                                                                                           J. Tellier

Books to be purchased:

*Pauline Maier et al., Inventing America (New York, 2002),
    vol. II .
John M. Giggie, After Redemption; Jim Crow and the Transformation of
    African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915 (New York, 1007).
Robert M. Fogelsen, Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930 (New
    Haven, 2005).
Willa Cather, One of Ours (New York, 1922).
Matthew Algeo, Last Team Standing: How the Pittsburgh Steelers and the
    Philadelphia Eagles--"The Steagles"--Saved Pro Football During World War II
    New York, 2007).
Robert E. Herzstein, Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia
    (Cambridge, 2005).
Rick Coleman, Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll
    (New York, 2006).

*textbook

Requirements:

1.       Attendance.
2.       Participation.
3.       Readings.
4.       Successful completion of three examinations.

Schedule:

Jan. 14-17             Introduction                                     Maier, ch. 17

                                The United States in 1865

                                The Andrew Johnson Story

Jan. 21                  MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY

Jan. 24                 The South "Redeemed"                   Maier, chs. 18/19

Jan. 28-31            On the Road to Number One    

Feb. 4-7                 Social Darwinism                              Maier, ch. 20

                               The Frontier “Closed”                     Giggie   

Feb.11-14              The New American Worker      

                               The New Immigration               

                               The New University

                               The Old Politics                        

Feb. 18                   F I R S T   E X A M I N A T I O N

Feb. 21                  Discontented on the Farm             Maier, ch. 21

                               The Populist Moment                      Fogelsen

Feb. 25-28             The Election of 1896                

                                       The United States Looking Outward

Mar. 3-6                The Progressive Vision                      Maier, ch. 22

                                 Theodore Roosevelt, Man            Cather
                                   of the Hour

Mar. 10-13            S P R I N G   B R E A K

Mar. 17-20            Republican Crack-up                      Maier, ch. 23

                              The Wilsonian Moment                    Algeo 

Mar. 24                  S E C O N D   E X A M I N A T I O N

Mar. 27                  Keeping U.S. Out of War     

                               The Great Crusade

Mar. 31-Apr. 3       What Were the 1920s?                   Maier, chs. 24/25

                      The Great Crash                      

                                Origins of the Welfare State      

Apr. 7-10                Keeping U.S. Out of W.W.II

                                America’s 2nd Crusade                  Maier, chs. 26/27

Apr. 14-17              Origins of the Cold War                    Herzstein

   Red Scare II                                       Maier, chs. 28/29

                               What Were the 1950s?                     Coleman

Apr. 21-24              The Second Reconstruction

                                “The Kids”                                           Maier, the rest

                                     1968: Year of Crisis

                                The Vietnam Story

                                After the Sixties Blowout