MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

History 3093/5093                                                                       Fall, 2004

American Studies 3029/5029                                                  Mr. Bowling

The United States in the 1950s & 1960s                           

 

Books:

Carol Anderson, Eyes Off the Prize; The United Nations and the African

            American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (Cambridge, 2003).

Bradford W. Wright, Comic Book Nation; The Transformation of Youth

Culture in America (Baltimore, 2001).

Arch Puddington, Broadcasting Freedom; The Cold War Triumph of Radio

Free Europe and Radio Liberty (Lexington, 2000).

Christina Klein, Cold War Orientalism; Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination  

(Berkeley, 2003).

Allison Graham, Framing the South; Hollywood, Television, and Race

            During the Civil Rights Struggle (Baltimore, 2001).

W.  L. Rorabaugh, Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties (Cambridge,

2002).

Rick, Perlstein, Before the Storm; Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the 

American Consensus (New York, 2001).

Jo Freeman, At Berkeley in the Sixties; The Education of an Activist,

1961-1965 (Bloomington, 2003).

Donald A. Beattie, Taking Science to the Moon; Lunar Experiment and the 

Apollo (Baltimore, 2001).

Earl Black and Merle Black, The Rise of Southern Republicans (Cambridge,

            Mass., 2002).

Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, and Winifred Mausbach, eds.,

            America, the Vietnam War, and the World; Comparative and

            International Perspectives  (Cambridge, 2003).

Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic; The Politics of Mass Consumption

            (New York, 2003).

 

Requirements:

            1.  Attendance.

            2.  Participation.

            3.  Readings.

4.  Successful completion of two examinations.

5.  A critical paper, c. 15-20 pp. for undergraduates, c. 25 pp. for

graduate students, on a topic to be chosen in consultation with 

the instructor, a complete, typewritten draft of which is due on 

November 15^th

 

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Schedule:

Sept. 7            Introduction: The Postwar World, the Fifties, and the Sixties

 

Sept. 14         Civil Rights, Human Rights: an “Ameican Dilemma”

                                    Reading:  Anderson.

 

Sept. 21         What Comic Books Can Tell Us

                                    Reading: Wright.

 

Sept. 28         The Cold War on the Air

                                    Reading: Puddington.

 

Oct. 5              The Mysterious East in the Popular Mind

                                    Reading: Klein.

 

Oct. 12            The Civil Rights Movement in Pictures

                                    Reading: Graham.

 

Oct. 19            M I D T E R M  E X A M I N A T I O N

 

Oct. 26            Getting the Country Moving Again

                                    Reading: Rorabaugh.

 

Nov. 2             The Other Side of the Sixties

                                    Reading: Perlstein.

 

Nov. 9             It Happened in Berkeley

                                    Reading: Freeman.

 

                        COMPLETE, TYPEWRITTEN DRAFT OF PAPER IS DUE.

 

Nov. 16           Why We Went to the Stars, and What We Found There

                                    Reading: Beattie.

 

Nov. 23           A Two-Party South at Last

                                    Reading: Black and Black.

 

Nov. 30           Vietnam: International Crisis

                                    Reading: Daum et alia.

 

Dec. 7             The Impact of Affluence

                                    Reading: Cohen.