MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
History
2005 Spring, 2003
(1945-1981) S.
Shevlin
Books
to be purchased:
*Paul S. Boyer, Promises to Keep; the United States Since World War II (New
York, 2nd Ed.
1999).
Alison J. Clarke, Tupperware; The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America
(Washington, 1999).
Pete
Daniel, Lost Revolutions; The South in the 1950s (Chapel Hill, 2000).
John A. Jackson, American Bandstand; Dick Clark & the Making of a Rock ‘n’
Roll Empire (New York, 1997).
Stephen G. Rabe, The Most Dangerous Area in the World; John F. Kennedy
Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America
(Chapel Hill, 1999).
Jonathan Schoenwald, A Time for Choosing; The Rise of Modern American
Conservatism (New York, 2001).
Mary
Ann Wynkoop, Dissent in the Heartland; The Sixties at Indiana University
(Bloomington, 2002).
*textbook
Requirements:
1. Attendance.
2. Participation.
3. Readings.
4. Successful completion of three
examinations.
Schedule:
Jan.
23
Introduction
The United States in 1945
Origins of the Cold
War
Jan.
27-30
Red Scare
Feb.
3-6
The Age of Ike
The Suburban Dream Clarke
Feb.
10-13 The Unholy Trinity
Facing an American
Dilemma Daniel
Feb.
17 F I R S T E X A M I N A T I O N
Feb.
19-20 Sputnik
Worries
“Kennedyism”
Jackson
Feb.
24-27
Cold War Crises
Making of a Counterculture Rabe
It Happened in
Berkeley
Mar.
3-6
The Great Society &
Its Critics
Making of a Quagmire
Mar.
10-13 S P R I N G B R E A K
Mar.
17-20 Long, Hot Summers
Woodstock
Nation
Mar.
24 S E C O N D E X A M I N A T I
O N
Mar.
27 1968: Everything Went
Wrong
Mar.
31-Apr. 3 The “Silent Majority” Is
Heard
Apr.
7-10 The End of the Sixties Schoenwald
The China Card and
After
Apr.
14-17 What Were the 1970s?
The Age of Inflation
Apr.
21-24 The Unmaking of a
President
Saturday Night Fever
Wynkoop
Cold War Reborn
Crisis of
Confidence
Apr.
28-May 1 1980: America is Unhappy
The Meaning of
“Reaganism”
The 1980s and After