MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

History3006/5006                                           Spring, 2005
Post-Sixties America                                      Mr. Bowling

Books to be purchased:

Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American
    Culture, Society, and Politics (New York, 2001).

Ronald A. Formisano, Boston Against Busing; Race, Class,
    and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s (Chapel Hill, 2004).

Jeremy Varon, Bringing the War Home; The Weather
    Underground, The Red Army Faction, and the
    Revolutionary Violence of the 1960s and 1970s
    (Berkeley, 2004).

Kiron K. Skinner, et al., eds., Reagan, In His Own Hand: The
    Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary
    Vision for America (New York, 2001).

James Mann, About Face; A History of America's Curious
    Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton (New York,
    1998).

Joseph B. Tamney, The Resilience of Conservative Religion;
    The Case of the Popular Conservative Protestant
    Congregation (Cambridge, 2002).

Ronald E. Powaski, Return to Armageddon; The United States
    and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999 (New York, 2003).

Martin Morley & Christ McGillion, Unfinished Business:
    America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989-2001
    (Cambridge, 2002).

Micheline Maynard, The End of Detroit: How the Big Three
    Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market (New York, 
    2003).

Robert W. McCheseney, The Problem of the Media: U. S.
    Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century (New
    York, 2004).

Mark Rectanus, Culture Incorporated; Museums, Artists, and
    Corporate Sponsorship (Minneapolis., 2002).

Carol M. Swain, The New White Nationalism in America: Its
    Challenge to Integration (Cambridge, 2004).

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 March 21st.

Schedule:

Jan. 24       Introduction:  Life After the Sixties

Jan. 31       What Were the 1970s?

                             Reading:  Schulman

Feb. 7         The "Forced Busing" Controversy

                             Reading: Formisano

Feb. 14       The Fate of the Weathermen

                             Reading: Varon

Feb. 16       Reagan in the Seventies

                             Reading:  Skinner

Feb. 21       Dealing With China

                             Reading:  Mann

Feb. 28        M I D T E R M   E X A M I N A T I O N

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

Mar. 14        Searching for the Divine

                             Reading: Tamney

Mar. 21        Whatever Happened to MAD?

                             Reading: Powaski

   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 .

Mar. 28     U.S./Cuban Cold War (cont.)

                             Reading:  Morley & McGillion

Apr. 4       The Fate of the Big Three

                             Reading:  Maynard

Apr. 11       How We Know Now

                             Reading:  McChesney

Apr. 18       Who's Driving the "Culture" Game?

                             Reading:  Rectanus

Apr. 25        "White Nationalism"--??

                             Reading:  Swain

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