MANHATTANVILLE
COLLEGE
History 3006/5006 Fall,
2002
Post-Sixties America Mr.
Bowling
Books
to be purchased:
David Frum, How We
Got Here; The 70’s: The Decade that Brought You
Modern Life (For Better or Worse) (New York, 2000).
Joe Austin, Taking
the Train; How Graffiti Art Became An Urban Crisis in
New York City (New
York, 2001).
Nicolaus Mills, ed., Culture
in an Age of Money; The Legacy of the 1980s
in America(Chicago, 1991).
Richard P. Hallion, Storm
Over Iraq; Air Power and the Gulf War
(Washington, 1992).
Tamar Jacoby, Someone
Else’s House; America’s Unfinished Struggle for
Integration (New York, 1998).
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of
the Consumer Electronics and
Computer Science Industries (New
York, 2001).
David Remnick, ed., The
New Gilded Age; The New Yorker Looks at the
Culture of Affluence (New York, 2001).
John McWhorter, Word
on the Street: Debunking the Myth of “Pure”
Standard English (New
York, 1998).
Robert P. George, Making
Men Moral; Civil Liberties and Public Morality
(New York, 1995).
Michael Schaller, The
U. S. and China; Into the Twenty-First Century (New
York, 3rd ed., 2002).
Paul C. Weller, Leveling
the Playing Field: How the Law Can Make Sports
Better for Fans (Cambridge,
Mass., 2000).
Samuel P. Huntington, The
Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of
World Order (New York, 1996).
Requirements:
1. Attendance.
2. Participation.
3. Readings.
4. Successful
completion of two examinations.
5. A critical
paper, c. 15-20 pp. for undergraduates, c. 25 pp. for graduate students, a complete,
typewritten draft of which is due
November 4th.
Schedule:
Aug. 26 Introduction: Life After the Sixties
Sept. 2 L A
B O R D A Y
Sept. 4 What
Were the 1970s?
Reading: Frum, How
We Got Here
Sept. 9 Thinking
About Graffiti
Reading: Austin, Taking
the Train
Sept. 16 The
1980s Boom and its Effects
Reading: Mills, Culture
in an Age of Money
Sept. 23 How
the Persian Gulf War Was Won
Reading: Hallion, Storm
Over Iraq
Sept. 30 “Civil
Rights” in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Reading: Jacoby, Someone
Else’s House
Oct. 7
M
I D T E R M E X A M I N A T I O N
Oct. 14 C O L
U M B U S D A Y
Oct. 21 The
Digital Age
Reading: Chandler, Inventing the Electronic Century
Oct. 28 The
Boom of the Nineties
Reading: Remnick, New
Gilded Age
Nov. 4 New
Developments in English
Reading: McWhorter, Word on the Street
C O M P L E T E D R A F T
O F P A P E R I S
D U E .
Nov. 11 What
Happened to Morality?
Reading: George, Making
Men Moral
Nov. 18 The
China Question
Reading: Schaller, U. S. and China
Nov. 25 Are
Sports Still Fun and Games?
Reading: Weller, Leveling
the Playing Field
Dec. 2 A
Dangerous World—Why?
Reading: Huntington, Clash of Civilizations