HIST235

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HIST235

American Intellectual History: 1600-1865 HIST235 FA

Crosslistings: AMST151, RELI235

Fall 96 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:01:13 EDT 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       40      0         40

This course will examine the intellectual currents that shaped American culture from the colonial period through the Civil War. A close reading of texts illustrative of Puritanism, the Enlightenment, Revolutionary republicanism, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, transcendentalism and reform.

MAJOR READINGS

Representative selections from the writings
of John Winthrop, John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, Mary
Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, William Byrd,
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine, James Madison,
Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Emerson, Jackson, Thoreau,
Poe, Melville, Charles Finney, Whitman, Harriet B. Stowe
and Lincoln, among others.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

One hour quiz, several short papers and a final exam.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS HIST

Prerequisites: None

Section 01: Buel, R; Times: M.W.F.. 11:00AM;; Grading Mode: A/F; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 1; No Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

About the Photo:

Thomas Jefferson, as depicted by Caleb Boyle

Reference:

Maurois, Andre. AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, New York: Viking Press, 1968

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