MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

History 1012                                                            Spring, 2007
Development of America II                                Mr. Bowling
                                                                                F. Notaristefano

Books to be purchased:

*Pauline Maier et al., Inventing America (New York, 2002),
    vol. II .
Don Rottenberg, The May Who Made Wall Street; Anthony J.
    Drexel & the Rise of Modern Finance(Philadelphia, 2006).
Thomas Zeiler, ed., Ambassadors in Pinstripes; The Spalding World
   Baseball Tour & the Birth of the American Empire (New York, 2006).
Davison Douglas,  Jim Crow Moves North; The Battle over Northern
   School Segregation, 1865-1954 (Cambridge, 2005).
Alan Lawson, A Commonwealth of Hope; The New Deal Response to
   Crisis(Baltimore, 2006).
James C. Humes, Eisenhower & Churchill; The Partnership that Saved
   the World (New York, 2001).
James T. Fisher,  Dr. America; The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961
   (Amherst, 1997).
*textbook

Requirements:

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

Schedule:

Jan. 18-25             Introduction                              Maier, ch. 17

                                The United States in 1865

                                The Andrew Johnson Story

Jan. 29-Feb. 1      The South "Redeemed"           Maier, chs. 18/19

                                On the Road to Number One    

Feb. 5-8                 Social Darwinism                        Maier, ch. 20

                                The Frontier “Closed”              Rottenberg

Feb.12-15              The New American Worker      Zeiler

                               The New Immigration               

                               The New University

                               The Old Politics                        

Feb. 19                   F I R S T   E X A M I N A T I O N

Feb. 22                   Discontented on the Farm     Maier, ch. 21

                                The Populist Moment              Davies

Feb. 26-Mar. 1       The Election of 1896                

                                        The United States Looking Outward

Mar. 5-8                 The Progressive Vision              Maier, ch. 22

                                 Theodore Roosevelt, Man      Douglas
                                   of the Hour

Mar.  12-15             S P R I N G   B R E A K

 Mar. 19-22            Republican Crack-up              Maier, ch. 23

                                The Wilsonian Moment           Lawson

Mar. 26                  S E C O N D   E X A M I N A T I O N

Mar. 29                  Keeping U.S. Out of War

                                The Great Crusade

Apr. 2-5                  What Were the 1920s?            Maier, chs. 24/25

                      The Great Crash                      

                                Origins of the Welfare State      

Apr. 9-12               Keeping U.S. Out of W.W.II

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

Apr. 16-19              Origins of the Cold War          Humes

   Red Scare II                             Maier, chs. 28/29

                                 What Were the 1950s?          Fisher

Apr. 23-26              The Second Reconstruction

                                “The Kids”                                 Maier, the rest

                                     1968: Year of Crisis

                                The Vietnam Story

                                After the Sixties Blowout

Apr. 30-May 3       F I N A L   E X A M I N A T I O N