MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
History 3028/5028 Summer, 2006
Great Topics in American History Mr. Bowling
Books:
David A. Hollinger & Charles Capper, eds., The American
Intellectual Tradition (Oxford, 2 vols., 2005 ed.).
David Brian Robertson, The Constitution & America's Destiny
(Cambridge, 2005).
Amy S. Greenberg, Manifest Manhood & the Antebellum Empire
(Cambridge, 2005).
James N. Gregory, The Southern Diaspora; How the Great
Migration of Black & White Southerners Transformed America
(Chapel Hill, 2005).
John Lewis Gaddis, Surprise, Security, & the American Experience
(Cambridge, Mass., 2005).
Requirements:
1. Attendance.
2. Readings.
3. Participation.
4. Oral reports (longer for graduate students), for which some library
research time will be provided).
5. Successful completion of two examinations.
This course will consider recurring themes & great ideas in the history of the United States, from the beginning to the present. The focus will be on how articulate Americans have interpreted the major economic, social, political, religious, and intellectual question of their day & also as they considered the national future. Emphasis is on primary texts with some supplementary materials as above.