MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
Books
to be purchased:
*Pauline
Maier et alia, Inventing America (New York, 2003), vol. II .
Richard
Franklin Bensel, The Political Economy of American
Industrialization, 1877-1900 (Cambridge, 2001).
Ruth
O’Brien, Workers’ Paradox; The Republican Origins of New
Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935
(Chapel
Hill, 1998).
Larry
Tye, The Father of Spin; Edward L. Bernays & the Birth of
Laura
Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit; An American Legend (New York,
2000).
Daniel
Kryder, Divided Arsenal; Race and the American State During
Adam
Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside; Suburban Sprawl &
the Rise of American Environmentalism (Cambridge, 2001).
*textbook
Requirements:
1. Attendance.
2. Participation.
3. Readings.
4. Successful completion of three
examinations.
Schedule:
Jan.
23 Introduction
Maier, ch. 17
The United States
in 1865
The Andrew Johnson
Story
Jan.
27-30 The Meaning of
“Redemption” Maier,
chs. 18, 19
On the Road to
Number One
Feb.
3-6 Social Darwinism’s
Worldview Maier, ch. 20
The Frontier
“Closed” Bensel
Feb.
10-13 The New American Worker
The New Immigration
The New University
The Old Politics
Feb.
17 F I R S T E X A M I N A T I O
N
Feb.
19-20 Discontentment on the
Farm Maier, ch. 21
The Populist Moment O’Brien
Feb.
24-27 The Election of 1896
The United States
Looking Outward
Mar.
3-6 The Progressive Vision Maier, ch. 22
Theodore
Roosevelt, Man of Tye
the Hour
Mar.
10-13 S P R I N G B R E A K
Mar.
17-20 Republican Crack-up Maier, ch. 23
The Wilsonian
Moment Hillebrand
Mar.
24 S E C O N D E X A M I N A T I
O N
Mar.
27 Keeping U.S. Out of War
The Great Crusade
Mar.
31-Apr. 3 What Were the 1920s?
Maier, , chs. 24, 25
The Great Crash
Origins of the
Welfare State
Apr.
7-10 Keeping U.S. Out of
W.W.II
America’s Second
Crusade Maier, chs. 26, 27
Apr.
14-17 Origins of the Cold War Kryder
Red Scare II
Maier,
chs. 28, 29
What Were the
1950?s Rome
Apr.
21-24 The Second
Reconstruction
“The Kids”
Maier, the rest
1968: Year of
Crisis
The Vietnam Story
Apr.
28-May 1 After the Sixties Blowout