MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
History
2005
Spring, 2007
Recent American History
Mr. Bowling
(1945-1981)
J. Tellier
Books
to be purchased:
*Richard
M. Abrams, America Transformed; Sixty Years of Revolutionary
Change (Cambridge,
2006).
Lance
Morrow, The Best Year
of their Lives; Kennedy, Johnson, & Nixon in 1948
(New York, 2006).
John
Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr,
Early Cold War Spies; The Espionage Trials
that Shaped American Politics (Cambridge, 2006).
Julius
E. Zelizer, On Capitol
Hill; The Struggle to Reform Congress & its
Consequences, 1948-2000 (Cambridge, 2006).
Robert
O. Self, American
Babylon; Race & the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
(Princeton, 2005).
Nicholas
Knowles Bromwell, Tomorrow
Never Knows; Rock & Psychedelics in the
1960s (Chicago,
2000).
Wayne
Coffey, The Boys of
Winter; The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, & the
1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team (New York, 2005).
*textbook
Requirements:
1.
Attendance.
2.
Participation.
3.
Readings.
4.
Successful completion of three examinations.
Schedule:
Jan.
18
Introduction
The United States in 1945
Origins of the Cold War
Jan.
22-25 Red
Scare
Jan.
29-Feb. 1 The Age of Ike
The Suburban Dream
Morrow
Feb.
5-8
The Unholy Trinity
Feb.
12-15 Facing an
American Dilemma
Haynes & Klehr
Feb.
19
F
I R S T E X A M I N A T I O N
Feb.
26-Mar. 1 Sputnik Worries
“Kennedyism”
Zelizer
Mar.
5-7
Cold War Crises
Making of a Counterculture
Self
It Happened in Berkeley
Mar.
12-15 S
P R I N G B R E A K
Mar.
19-22
The Great Society & Its Critics
Making of a Quagmire
Mar.
26-29 Long,
Hot Summers
Woodstock Nation
Apr.
2
S E C O N D
E X A M I N A T I O N
Apr.
5
1968: Everything Went
Wrong
Apr. 9-12
The “Silent Majority” Is Heard
The End of the Sixties
Bromwell
The China Card and After
Apr.
16-19 What
Were the 1970s?
The Age of Inflation
Apr.
18-21 The
Unmaking of a President
Saturday Night Fever Coffey
Apr.
23-26
Cold War Reborn
Crisis of Confidence
The Meaning of “Reaganism”
The 1980s and After
Apr. 30-May 3 F I N A L
E X A M I N A T I O N