manhattanville college
History
3014/5014
Summer, 2008
Recent American History
Mr. Bowling
Requirements:
| 1. Attendance. | ||
| 2. Participation. | ||
| 3. Readings. | ||
| 4.
Oral reports from library research (some class time provided; longer for graduate students). |
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| 5. Successful completion of two examinations. |
Readings:
| *Christopher Bigsby,
The Cambridge Companion to American Culture (Cambridge, 2005). |
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| E. B.Sledge, China
Marine; An Infantryman's Life After World War II (Tuscaloosa, 2002). |
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| David M. Lewis-Colman,
Race Against Liberalism; Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit (Urbana, 2008). |
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| Diane di Prima, Recollections
of My Life as a Woman; the New York Years (NewYork, 2001). |
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| Peniel Joseph, Waiting
'Til the Midnight Hour; A Narrative History of Black Power in America (New York, 2006). |
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| Matthew D. Lassiter,
The Silent Majority; Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton, 2007). |
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| John G. Turner, Bill
Bright & Campus Crusade for Christ; The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America (Chapel Hill, 2008). |
Topics to be Considered:
The United States, & the World, in 1945
Origins of the Cold War
Red Scare at Home
What Were the 1950s?
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Man of the Hour
It’s only Rock & Roll, But…
Origins of the Civil Rights Saga
The Suburban World
Getting the Country Moving Again
What Were the 1960s?
"Kennedyism”
Origins of a Counterculture
LBJ & the Hightide of Liberalism
Origins of Modern Conservatism
The New Left Critique
The Vietnam Story
“Black Power”
The Sixties Blowup
Richard Nixon, Man of the Hour
What Were the 1970s?
The Rise & Fall of Détente
“Reaganism”: Conservatism at High Tide
The Rise of a New Generation