HIST-6000
First Summer Session 2004
Garinger 123, Mondays and Thursdays, 6:00 – 9:30 PM
PROFESSOR: Dr. James K. Hogue
Department of History Tel: 704-547-4823 (Work)
137 Garinger Hall 704-367-1647 (Home)
UNC-Charlotte Fax: 704-547-3218 (Work)
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001 email: jhogue@uncc.edu
Summer Session Office Hours: Mondays and Thursdays, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Course Objectives:
Using both primary and secondary sources as the basis for discussions, this readings-based graduate seminar will examine a series of key issues in American history from the first colonization by European settlers through the American Civil War.
Course Requirements:
Oral Students are expected to have completed the assigned reading and to be prepared to discuss it in the appropriate class period. All students will lead class discussions and prepare outlines for at least one class. Participation in class discussions will account for one-fourth of the final course grade.
Written Students will submit two papers:
A 15-page essay--which may be either a historiographical analysis of secondary literature or a research paper based at least partly on primary sources--is due on or before 6 August 2004.
A 5-page critical review of any of the assigned monographs for this course is due as listed below:
Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the “Massacre.” 7 June
A Devil of A Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens 10 June
The Radicalism of the American Revolution 14 June
Black Rice: African Origins of Rice Cultivation 24 June
Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War 28 June
Mary Chesnut’s Civil War 29 June
Written
work will account for a total of three-fourths of the final grade for this
course, with the major worth one-half and and lesser essays one-fourth of the
final grade for this course. Please note that all late papers will be penalized
one letter-grade.
Course Outline:
Class 1. Monday 31 May: Introductory Meeting—film, “Last of the Mohicans.” For the next class meeting, write a two to three page critical essay analyzing the interactions of Native Americans, colonists, and European imperial officials based on your understanding of the film.
Class 2. Thursday 3 June: Britain’s American Empire, 17th Century
Ch 1 of LEP: When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, and Catastrophe
Ch 2 of LEP: The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America
The Constitution of the Iroqouis Nations (ca. 1600)
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/constitution/iroq_const.htm
John Winthrop's City upon a Hill, 1630
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/winthrop.htm
Gottlieb Mittelberger, “On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants” http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1601-1650/mittelberger/servan.htm
[No mongraph; read ahead]
Class 3. Monday 7 June: Britain’s American Empire, 18th Century
Ch 3 of LEP: England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion
Ch 4 of LEP: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent
Samuel Davies and Gilbert Tennent, “A General Account of the Rise and State of the College” http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/princeton.html
King George III, Proclamation of 1763
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/treasures1.html
Steele, Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the “Massacre.”
Class 4. Thursday 10 June: Revolution and War
Ch 5 of LEP: Reform, Resistance, Revolution
Ch 6 of LEP: The Revolutionary Republic
Paul Revere, “The Boston Massacre”(1770)
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/treasures1.html and http://www.bostonmassacre.net/
Richard Furman, “Address to the Residents Between the Broad and Saluda River (1775)
http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/furman1.htm
Babits, A Devil of A Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens.
Saturday 12 June: Optional Field Trip to Kings Mountain and Cowpens Battlefields
Kings Mountain National Military Park http://www.nps.gov/kimo/
Cowpens National Battlefield http://www.nps.gov/cowp/
Class 5. Monday 14 June: The Early Republic and the Market Revolution
Ch 7 of LEP: The Democratic Republic, 1790-1820
Ch 8 of LEP: Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815
Ch 9 of LEP: The Market Revolution, 1815-1860
“On Time” (Smithsonian Virtual Exhibit) http://americanhistory.si.edu/ontime/index.html
Horace Mann, “Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board” http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/16.htm
Canal Era advertisements http://www.clevelandmemory.org/SpecColl/canal/sec4a.htm
Class 6. Thursday 17 June: The Age of Reform
Ch 10 of LEP: Toward an American Culture
Ch 11 of LEP: Society, Culture, and Politics, 1820- 1840
“American Citizens!” http://loc.harpweek.com/LCPoliticalCartoons/IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.asp?SourceIndex=Topics&IndexText=Nativism&UniqueID=26&Year=1852
Class 7. Monday 21 June: The Age of Jackson
Ch 12 of LEP: Jacksonian Democracy
Andrew Jackson, “Bank Veto” (1832) http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/ajveto.htm
Lewis Cass, “Removal of the Indians” http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/triumphnationalism/expansion/text4/text4read.htm
Class 8. Thursday 24 June: Liberty-- or Slavery?
Ch 13 of LEP: Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty-- or Slavery?
Carney, Black Rice: African Origins of Rice Cultivation.
Anonymous, “Managing Slaves,”
http://condor.depaul.edu/~history/webresources/usprimary/DeBow.htm
Class 9. Monday 28 June: A Decade of Crises
Ch 14 of LEP: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860
Ch 15 of LEP: Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862
Clinton and Silber, Divided Houses.
James Henry Hammond, “The ‘Mudsill’ Theory,” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3439t.html
Roger B. Taney, Dred Scott Decision http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933t.html
Abraham Lincoln, “House Divided” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2934t.html
Class 10. Tuesday, 29 June: Secession and Civil War [NOTES SPECIAL DATE!]
Ch 16 of LEP: A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865
Ch 15 of B&R: The Soldier’s Civil War
Ch 16 of B&R: Reconstruction and Free Plantation Labor
Abraham Lincoln, “First Inaugural Address,” http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/linc_a73.htm
Jefferson Davis, “Inaugural Address,” http://douglassarchives.org/davi_b16.htm
Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address,” http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/linc_a74.htm
Robert E. Lee, “Farewell Address” http://www.civilwar.si.edu/appomattox_lee_farewell.htm
Woodward, ed., Mary Chesnut’s Civil War.
***In-class oral progress reports on major essays***
Directions for Written Assignments
Critical reviews: Choose one of the assigned monographs, and write a critcal essay that includes (as a minimum) the following: a summary of the author’s thesis and supporting evidence; your evaluation of the persuasiveness of the thesis (or lack thereof); discussion of the book’s strengths and weaknesses (at least two of each).
Major essay: You may do either a historiographical essay—comparing historians’ interpretations of an issue or event—or a research paper. Each student must arrange to meet with me at least once during the first summer session to discuss possible topics. Papers are due on 6 August 2004.
Students must use standard historians’ citation format in their major essays. While I will supply an example, students may also wish to consult Kate Turabian’s Manual for Writers, in book form or online at http://www.isr.bucknell.edu/research/turabian.pdf or consult the History Department webpage and click on “Student Help.”
The following are the prescribed texts for this course:
Narrative Text:
Murrin, Johnson, McPherson, et. al., Liberty, Equality, and Power: A History of the American
People, 4th ed., (cited as LEP). ISBN: 0534627307
Monographs:
Babits, Lawrence E. A Devil of A Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN: 080784926X
Carney, Judith A. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0674008340
Clinton, Catherine and Silber, Nina, eds., Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0195080343
Steele, Ian K. Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the “Massacre.” New York: Oxford
University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0195084268
Woodward, C. Vann, ed. Mary Chesnut’s Civil War. New Haven, CN: Yale University
Press, 1983. ISBN: 030002979
Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Vintage, 1993.
ISBN: 0679736883
Texts will be made available through the UNC-C bookstore. They may also be ordered on-line, in hardback, paperback, and used copies at www.amazon.com as of 3.30.04.