MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

  

 

 

History 1012                                                       Spring, 2004

Development of America II                                  Mr. Bowling

                                                                           J. Danielski

 

Books to be purchased:

*Pauline Maier et alia, Inventing America (New York, 2003), vol. II .

Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis; New York City & the

    Consolidationof the American Bourgeoisie (Cambridge, 2003).

Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony, American Workers, Colonial Power;

    Philippine Seattle & the Transpacific West, 1919-1941 (Berkeley,

    2002).

John S. D. Eisenhower, Intervention: the United States and the

    Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917 (New York, 1998).

Bruce Watson, The Man Who Changed How Boys & Toys Were

    Made; The Life & Times of A. C. Gilbert, the Man Who Saved

    Christmas (New York, 2003).

Eduardo Obregon Pagan, Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon; Zoot Suits,

    Race, & Riot in Wartime Los Angeles (Chapel Hill, 2004).

Paul Dickson, Sputnik; The Shock of the Century (New York, 2003).

    *textbook

 

Requirements:

1.  Attendance.

2.  Participation.

3.  Readings.

4.  Successful completion of three examinations.

 

 

Schedule:

Jan. 22     Introduction                               Maier,  ch. 17

The United States in 1865

The Andrew Johnson Story
Jan. 26-29

The Meaning of “Redemption”                      On the Road to Number One 

Maier, chs. 18, 19
Feb. 2-5 

Social Darwinist Worldview      

The Frontier “Closed”                

Maier, ch. 20 Beckert
Feb. 9-12

The New American Worker       

The New Immigration                

The New University    

The Old Politics

...
Feb. 16   F I R S T   E X A M I N A T I O N
...
Feb. 18-19 Discontentment on the Farm  Maier, ch. 21
The Populist Moment                 Eisenhower
Feb. 23-26

The Election of 1896                 

The United States Looking Outward

Mar. 1-4 

The Progressive Vision

Theodore Roosevelt, Man of the Hour

Maier, chs. 22

Fujita-Rony

Mar. 8-11 S P R I N G   B R E A K
Mar. 15-18 

Republican Crack-up

The Wilsonian Moment

Maier,  ch.23

Watson

Mar. 22  S E C O N D   E X A M I N A T I O N
...
Mar. 25 

Keeping U.S. Out of War

The Great Crusade

Mar.29-Apr.1 

What Were the 1920s?

The Great Crash

Origins of the Welfare State       

Maier, , chs.   24, 25
Apr. 5-8 

Keeping U.S. Out of W.W.II

America’s Second Crusade       

Maier, chs. 26, 27
Apr. 12-15

Origins of the Cold War

Red Scare II

What Were the 1950?s

Pagan

Maier, chs. 28, 29

Dickson

Apr. 19-22  

The Second Reconstruction

“The Kids”

1968: Year of Crisis

The Vietnam Story

 

Maier, the rest
Apr. 26-29    After the Sixties Blowout

                             

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