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Academic Year 2002/2003
American Intellectual History: 1600-1865
HIST 235 FA
This course offers an introduction to the cultural and intellectual traditions that helped shape America between the 17th-century and the Civil War. The course will introduce students to a range of primary sources,
including
objects, paintings, and photographs. Among the topics to be considered: Indian-white relations, family life, gun culture, the domestication of the wilderness, religious revivals, slavery, the rise of the city, and the
Civil
War. There will be two film screenings (THE SCARLET LETTER and Ken Burns's THE CIVIL WAR) and one field trip (to view a Colt firearms collection in Hartford).
MAJOR READINGS
Nina Baym et al., eds., THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1865, 2 vols., 6th ed. (2002)
Alexander Gardner, GARDNER'S PHOTOGRAPHIC SKETCHBOOK OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 (orig. pub.
1866)
Thomas Hariot, A BRIEF AND TRUE REPORT
OF THE NEW FOUND LAND OF VIRGINIA (orig. pub. 1598)
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnutt and C. Vann Woodward, eds., THE PRIVATE MARY CHESNUTT: THE UNPUBLISHED CIVIL WAR DIARIES 1985)
Caryl Phillips, CAMBRIDGE: A NOVEL
(1991)
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Several short papers, one in-class exam, and a take-home final.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Students who have questions about the course should email kirk.swinehart.@yale.edu.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Swinehart,Kirk Davis
- Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC107
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 50)
- SR. major: 8 Jr. major: 8
- SR. non-major: 8 Jr. non-major: 8 SO: 8 FR: 10
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Speaking, Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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