MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

History 3093/5093                                                                           Spring, 2007
American Studies 3029/5029                                                      Mr. Bowling
The United States in the 1950s & 1960s                           

Books:

Andrew J. Dunar, America in the Fifties (Syracuse, 2006).  

David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network; DuMont & the Birth of American
    Television (Philadelphia, 2004)..

Bob McGee, The Greatest Ballpark Ever; Ebbets Field & the Story of the
    Brooklyn Dodgers (New Brunswick, 2005).

Jonathan Nashel, Edward Lansdale's Cold War (Amherst, 2005). 

Robert A. Beauregard, When America Became Suburban (Minneapolis, 2006).

Gareth Porter,  Perils of Dominance; Imbalance of Power & the Road to War
    in Vietnam (Berkeley, 2005).

Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan & the Making of "The Feminine Mystique"
    (Amherst, 1998). 

James Lazerow & Yohuru Williams, eds., In  Search of the Black Panther Party; New
    Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Durham, 2006).

Peter Gurainick,  Dream Boogie; The Triumph of Sam Cooke (New York, 2005).

Margaret A. Wertekamp, Right Stuff, Wrong Sex; America's First Women in Space
    Program (Baltimore, 2005).

John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said; How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped
    the Personal Computer Industry (New York, 2005).
    

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 
    March 26th^.

Schedule:

Jan. 22           Introduction: The Postwar World, the Fifties, and the Sixties

Jan. 29           What Were the 1950s?

                                    Reading:  Dunar.

Feb. 5             Getting Television Going

                                    Reading: Weinstein.

Feb. 12           There Used to be a Ballpark Here

                                    Reading: McGee.

Feb. 19           Who the "Ugly American" Really Was

                                    Reading: Nashel.

Feb. 26            The Suburban Civilization Unfolds

                                    Reading: Beauregard.

Mar. 5               M I D T E R M  E X A M I N A T I O N

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

Mar. 19            Getting into Vietnam: How it Happened

                                    Reading: Porter.

Mar. 26             From out of Peoria

                                    Reading: Horowitz.

                                    COMPLETE, TYPEWRITTEN DRAFT OF PAPER IS DUE.

Apr. 2                It Happened in Oakland

                                    Reading: Lazerow & Williams.                       

Apr. 9               Sam Cooke: Black Music, White World

                                    Reading: Gurainick.

Apr. 16             Women in Space?

                                    Reading:  Weitekamp.

Apr. 23              The Legacy of the Sixties in your PC

                                    Reading: Markoff.

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