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Academic Year 2002/2003


Colonial American History, 1492 - 1783
HIST 237 SP

Crosslistings:
AMST 226

This course surveys American history from Columbus's "discovery" of 1492 through the American Revolution; a course epilogue will treat the rise of the Early Republic. Emphasis will be given to secondary as well as primary source readings; images and objects will be discussed, too. Foremost among the themes to be considered: New World exploration, native-white contact, witchcraft, the slave trade, relations between the genders, the American origins of the British Empire, the canonization of the Founding Fathers, the rise of American commercialism, and dueling culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

MAJOR READINGS

Tentative List of Readings

Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel Jr., THE WAY OF DUTY: A WOMAN AND HER FAMILY IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA
Richard L. Bushman, THE REFINEMENT OF AMERICA: PERSONS, CITIES, HOUSES
Alfred W. Crosby, THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE: BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES OF 1492
John Demos, A LITTLE COMMONWEALTH: FAMILY LIFE IN PLYMOUTH COLONY
_____, REMARKABLE PROVIDENCES: READINGS ON EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
_____, THE UNREDEEMED CAPTIVE: A FAMILY STORY FROM EARLY AMERICA
David Hackett Fischer, PAUL REVERE'S RIDE
Benjamin Franklin, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Thomas Hariot, A BRIEF AND TRUE REPORT OF THE NEW FOUND LAND OF VIRGINIA
Carol F. Karlsen, THE DEVIL IN THE SHAPE OF A WOMAN: WITCHCRAFT IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND
Susan E. Klepp and Billy G. Smith, eds., THE INFORTUNATE: THE VOYAGE AND ADVENTURES OF WILLIAM MORALEY, AN INDENTURED SERVANT
Edmund S. Morgan, THE PURITAN DILEMMA: THE STORY OF JOHN WINTHROP
Barry Unsworth, SACRED HUNGER

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Active participation, attendance; mid-term and final exams, plus a research paper of eight to ten pages.

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: PAC001
Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 50)
SR. major: 6   Jr. major: 4
SR. non-major: 6   Jr. non-major: 4   SO: 10   FR: 10

Special Attributes:
Curricular Renewal:    Reading Non-Verbal Texts, Writing
Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003


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