Lawson Bowling

Professor

Lawson Bowling has taught history at Manhattanville College since 1984.  A Philadelphia native, he graduated from Lakeside High School in Atllanta, where he was the recipient of the Atlanta Journal Cup as the Best All-Around Senior.  He went on to attend Emory University in Atlanta on a four-year National Merit Scholarship,, there  majoring in History and English. He then returned to Philadelphia to earn a Master of Science degree in Education at the University of Pennsylvania.  For three years he taught European history and economics at Forest Park (Ga.) Comprehensive Senior High School.  After that, he moved to Manhattan to study United States history at Columbia University, eventually earning a Ph.D. in History there.  He teaches courses on the twentieth century, the United States, Italy, economic history, California, World War II, and the history of sports.  He has published articles on such figures in American sports history as John Wooden and is the author of Shapers of the Great Debates: The Great Society (Greenwood, 2005).  He currently serves as Manhattanville's Faculty Athletics Representative for the National Collegiate Athletic Association.  He is a member of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the New-York Historical Society, the California Historical Society, the North American Society for Sport History, the Historical Society, the Society for Military History, the Morgan Library (New York), and the Penn Club of New York. 

 Spring Semester, 2012 Courses:

• HIS 1012, Development of America II  (S.I.:  Craig Augustine '12)
• HIS 2024, American Sports History (S.I.:  Armani Blackmon '12)
• HIS 3093/5093, The U.S. in the 1950s & the 1960s
• FYP 100, Sport, Play, & the Good Life 

 Spring Semester, 2012 Office Hours, Founder's G-25-C
    (or, weather permitting, on the top of the Quad):

• Monday, 3:00-4:00 P.M.
• Tuesday, 3:00-4:30 P.M.
• Thursday, 3:00-4:00 P.M.
• And by appointment ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) 

 Summer School, 2012, Session II Course:

• HIS 3071/5071, World War II

 Fall Semester, 2012 Courses: 

• HIS 1011, Development of America I

• HIS 2024, American Economic History

• HIS 3006/5006, Post-Sixties America

• HIS 3067/5067, Topics in the History of American Sports

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The 7th Annual Gregg Reidy Classic 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament happened on Saturday, March 24th, 2012.  Thanks to the 14 BA, History alumni, the 6 History minor alumni, and all others for participating in this great tradition.  Congratulations to the winning team:  the "Few, the Proud, the Literate," led by senior History major and Captain Armani Blackmon '12, with Trevoy Pointer '12, Angelo LaRoche '10, and DeVon Barnett '10.

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The 14th Annual History Alumni BBQ is coming in just a couple of weeks, this year on SATURDAY, APRIL 14th.  Save the date & spread the word.  Register and pre-order your t-shirts here:

https://community.mville.edu/historybbq2012

L.B. with the FOUNDER of the History Alumni BBQ, Pete Rotolo '00.