MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

History 1012                                                       Spring, 2006
Development of America II                           Mr. Bowling
                                                                            F. Notaristefano

Books to be purchased:

*Pauline Maier et al., Inventing America (New York, 2002),
    vol. II .
Jill Jonnes, Empires of Light; Edison, Telsar, Westinghouse, &
    the Race to Electrify the World (New York, 2003).
Pete Davies, American Road; The Story of an Epic
    Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age
    (New York, 2002).
Jeffrey M. Hornstein, A Nation of Realtors; A Cultural History of
    the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class (Durham,
    2005).
Leigh Montville, Ted Williams; the Biography of an American
    Hero(New York, 2004).
Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement
    (Chapel Hill, 2003).
Rosemary Foot,  The Practice of Power; US Relations with
    China Since 1949(New York, 1995).
*textbook

Requirements:

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

Schedule:

Jan. 19-26             Introduction                            Maier, ch. 17

                                The United States in 1865

                                The Andrew Johnson Story

Jan. 30-Feb. 2      The South "Redeemed"        Maier, chs. 18/19

                                On the Road to Number One    

Feb. 6-9                 Social Darwinism                     Maier, ch. 20

                                The Frontier “Closed”            Jonnes

Feb.13-16              The New American Worker      

                               The New Immigration               

                               The New University

                               The Old Politics                        

Feb. 20                   F I R S T   E X A M I N A T I O N

Feb. 23                   Discontented on the Farm   Maier, ch. 21

                                The Populist Moment            Davies

Feb. 27-Mar. 2       The Election of 1896                

                                        The United States Looking Outward

Mar. 6-9                 S P R I N G   B R E A K

Mar. 13-16              The Progressive Vision           Maier, ch. 22

                                 Theodore Roosevelt, Man   Hornstein
                                   of the Hour

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

                                 The Wilsonian Moment          Montville

Mar. 27                  S E C O N D   E X A M I N A T I O N

Mar. 30                   Keeping U.S. Out of War

                                The Great Crusade

Apr. 3-6                  What Were the 1920s?          Maier, chs. 24/25

                      The Great Crash                      

                                Origins of the Welfare State      

Apr. 10-13               Keeping U.S. Out of W.W.II

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

Apr. 17-20              Origins of the Cold War        Ransby

   Red Scare II                           Maier, chs. 28/29

                                 What Were the 1950s?         Foot

Apr. 24-27              The Second Reconstruction

                                “The Kids”                              Maier, the rest

                                     1968: Year of Crisis

                                The Vietnam Story

                                After the Sixties Blowout