manhattanville college
| History 3014/5014 |
Summer, 2002 |
| Recent American History |
Mr. Bowling |
Requirements:
| 1. Attendance. | ||
| 2. Participation. | ||
| 3. Readings. | ||
| 4. Oral reports from library research (some class time provided; longer for graduate students). | ||
| 5. Successful completion of two examinations. |
Readings:
Robert Griffith & Paul Baker, eds., Major Problems in American History Since 1945: Documents and Essays (Lexington, Mass., 2000).
Alison J. Clarke, Tupperware; The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America (Washington, 1999).
Andrew Hurley, Diners, Bowling Alleys, & Trailer Parks; Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture (New York, 2001).
Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time; Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (New York, 1955).
Curtis Peebles, Shadow Flights; America’s Secret Air War Against the Soviet Union (Novato, Cal., 2000).
Alice Echols, Shaky Ground; The Sixties and its Aftershocks (New York, 2002).
Topics to be Considered:
The United States, & the World, in 1945
Origins of the Cold War
Red Scare at Home
What Were the 1950s?
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Man of the Hour
It’s only Rock & Roll, But…
Origins of the Civil Rights Saga
The Suburban World
Getting the Country Moving Again
What Were the 1960s?
"Kennedyism”
Origins of a Counterculture
LBJ & the Hightide of Liberalism
Origins of Modern Conservatism
The New Left Critique
The Vietnam Story
“Black Power”
The Sixties Blowup
Richard Nixon, Man of the Hour
What Were the 1970s?
The Rise & Fall of Détente
“Reaganism”: Conservatism at High Tide
The Rise of a New Generation