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Academic Year 2002/2003
Colonial American History, 1492 - 1783
HIST 237 SP
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
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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