Reading Schedule

History 156

Reading Schedule

Overview

Topic 1: The New World

Topic 2: The Settlements

Topic 3: The Ideas

Topic 4: The Revolution

Topic 5: The New Nation

Topic 6: Midterm Review

Topic 7: The Age of Jackson

Topic 8: The Movements

Topic 9: The Institution

Topic 10: The Civil War

Reading Schedule

Reading Activity

Assignments Overview

Please note that the following Course Schedule is tentative. All schedule changes will be posted to WebTycho. Watching online video is not a course requirement. I have, however, added links to audio visual material that will make your journey through history more exciting. Watching videos at the Annenberg site, such as America's History in the making is free, but you must register by creating a user name and password.

Week	Session Dates	Readings, Assignments, and Due Dates
1		Boyer, "The Enduring Vision," Chapter 1& 2. If you don't have a book, read the section on the First Americans at Digital History. Also you can explore the PBS program New World Encounters Links of Interest The Portuguese in Africa, 1415-1600 Doctrine of Discovery Environmental History Resources
2		Boyer, Chapter 3. Review the Online Learning Activity as well as English Settlement Links of Interest Convict Servants in the American Colonies (NPR) Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820 Africans in Colonial America (NPR) Native American Slave Trade in New England (WGBH) Transatlantic Slave Trade
3		Boyer, Chapter 4. Review the PBS program Growth and Empire Links of Interest Daniel S. Murphree, " Constructing Indians in the Colonial Floridas: Origins of European-Floridian Identity, 1513-1573" The Florida historical quarterly Vol. 81 Issue 2 (Fall 2002): 133-154. Close Encounters of the First Kind, 1585-1767 (Maryland State Archives) Video/Audio links (not required) Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom (Video Lecture MIT) American Indians and the French & English Wars for more lectures see WGBH On line Lectures Kathleen Burk, The War of American Independence 1765 - 1783
4		Boyer, Chapter 5 & 6. Read the Declaration of Independence, Appendix, A1-A2 and review the PBS program The Coming of Independence and A New System of Government. Also, check out American History in the Making: Unit 4. If you are interested in literature, see American Passages: Unit 4. Links of Interest Constitutional Thought of the Anti-Federalists America's Founding Principles Boston King (For more, browse the Memoirs of Boston King) Remembering Black Loyalists
5		Boyer, Chapters 7 & 8. Review the PBS program Westward Expansion Links of Interest A History of Treaty Making City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation (03-0855) Browne, Stephen H. "The Circle of Our Felicities": Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address and the Rhetoric of Nationhood," Rhetoric & Public Affairs Volume 5, Number 3 (Fall 2002): 409-438. Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820). Also see "On the Equality of the Sexes" The Long Road to Justice
6		Proctored Midterm Exam Week
7		Boyer, Chapter 9. (Primary Source Analysis Due) Links of Interest Campaign History Tales of the Early Republic Lincoln Net: Women and Gender (short videos on various topics, not required for course) History of Ideas: Nationalism American Nationalism Carp, Benjamin L. "Nations of American Rebels: Understanding Nationalism in Revolutionary North America and the Civil War South," Civil War History Volume 48, Number 1 (March 2002): 5-33. Worker Worlds in Antebellum America
8		Boyer, Chapters 10-11. Links of Interest Theodore, Alisse. "'A Right to Speak on the Subject': The U.S. Women's Anti-removal Petition Campaign, 1829-1831," Rhetoric & Public Affairs Volume 5, Number 4 (Winter 2002): 601-623. Patrick Minges, "Beneath the Underdog: Race, Religion, and the Trail of Tears" The American Indian Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (Summer 2001), pp. 453-479.
9		Boyer, Chapters 12-13. Links of Interest The Geography of Slavery The Differences Slavery Made The Frederick Douglas Papers Voices of the Slave Days
10		Boyer, Chapters 14 -16 Links of Interest Digital History Multimedia Without Sanctuary Articles Civil War History Vol 51.4 (several articles on Reconstruction that analyze this era from the 'what-if' perspective) James M. McPherson, "No Peace without Victory, 1861-1865," The American Historical Review Vol. 109 No. 1 (Feb, 2004): 1-18. History, Democracy, and Citizenship
11		Online Final Exam Week

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