MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

History 2005                                                           Spring, 2005

Recent American History                                    Mr. Bowling
       (1945-1981)                                                     D. Ventura

Books to be purchased:

*Michael Schaller, et al., Present Tense; the United States Since
    1945 (New York, 3^nd ed., 2004).

Henry Butterfield Ryan, The Vision of Anglo-America: The US-UK
    Alliance and the Emerging Cold War, 1943-1946 (Cambridge,
    1987).

Nancy Bernhard, US Television News and Cold War Propaganda,
    1947-1960 (Cambridge, 1999).

Frederick Kohner, Gidget (New York, 1957).

Thomas A. Paterson, Contesting Castro; The United States and
    the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution(New York, 1994).

Matthew Dallek, The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory
    and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics (New York,
    2000).

Robert Buzzanco, Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in
    the Vietnam Era(Bloomington, 1996).

*textbook

Requirements:

1.       Attendance.

2.       Participation.

3.       Readings.

4.       Successful completion of three examinations.

Schedule:

Jan. 20                Introduction         

                              The United States in 1945

                              Origins of the Cold War

Jan. 24-27           Red Scare                               

Jan. 31-Feb. 3    The Age of Ike

                              The Suburban Dream                        Ryan

Feb. 7-10            The Unholy Trinity

Feb. 14-16          Facing an American Dilemma       Bernhard

Feb. 17                 F I R S T   E X A M I N A T I O N

Feb. 21-24            Sputnik Worries

                               “Kennedyism”                                     Kohner

Feb. 28-Mar. 3    Cold War Crises

                               Making of a Counterculture          Paterson

                               It Happened in Berkeley

Mar. 7-10             S P R I N G   B R E A K

Mar. 14-17          The Great Society & Its Critics

                               Making of a Quagmire              

Mar. 21-24           Long, Hot Summers

                                Woodstock Nation

Mar. 28                 S E C O N D   E X A M I N A T I O N

Mar. 31                 1968: Everything Went Wrong

Apr. 4                   The “Silent Majority” Is Heard

                               The End of the Sixties                       Dallek

                               The China Card and After

Apr. 7                    NO CLASS (Frozen Four)

Apr. 11-14            What Were the 1970s?

                                The Age of Inflation                 

Apr. 18-21            The Unmaking of a President

                                Saturday Night Fever                     Buzzano

                                Cold War Reborn                    

                                Crisis of Confidence

Apr. 25-28            1980: America is Unhappy       

                                The Meaning of “Reaganism”

                                 The 1980s and After

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