manhattanville
college
History
3014/5014
Summer, 2005
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:
| * Randall Woods,
Quest for Identity; the United States Since 1945 (Cambridge, 2005). |
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| Kevin Coyne, Marching
Home: To War and Back with the Men of One American Town (New York, 2003). |
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| Jennifer E. Brooks, Defining
the Peace; World War II Veterans, Race, & the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition (Chapel Hill, 2004). |
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| Glenn C. Altschuler, All
Shook Up; How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (New York, 2003). |
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| Beth Bailey &
David Farber, eds., America in the Seventies (Lawrence, 2004). |
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| Byron E. Shafer, The
Two Majorities & the Puzzle of Modern American Politics (Lawrence, 2003). |
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