| COURSE SYLLABUS |
| WEEK ONE |
| August 24 |
Course Introduction I — Course Logistics and Conditions of Learning |
| August 26 |
Course Introduction II — Collective Mission |
| › student profile |
• What Is a University and Why Are You Enrolled in One?
• What Is a Public University and Why Are You Enrolled in One?
• What Is a Research University and Why Are You Enrolled in One?
• Why Study the Humanities?
• Why Study History?
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| WEEK TWO |
| August 31 |
Lecture 1: European Invasion of the Americas and a New Atlantic World |
| › response sheet 1 |
Reading Guide for Week 2 |
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Documents:
Columbus, Letter (1493)
Requerimiento (1513)
Video:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story” (TEDGlobal 2009)
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| September 2 |
Lecture 2: European Moral Dissension; Native American Moral Resistance |
| › response sheet 2 |
Reading Guide for Week 2 |
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Documents:
Sepulveda, Democrates Alter (1547)
Las Casas, Brevissima Relacion (1552)
Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590)
Video:
Rockman, Seth. “What Is Historical Reasoning?” Brown University, August 2014. [up to 2:32]
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| WEEK THREE |
| September 7 |
Lecture 3: Achieving Stability and Dominance in the Chesapeake |
| › response sheet 3 |
Reading Guide for Week 3 |
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Document:
Richard Frethorne, letter to his parents (1623)
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| September 9 |
Lecture 4: From White Servitude to Black Slavery in the Chesapeake |
| › response sheet 4 |
Reading Guide for Week 3 |
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Documents:
Virginia laws of servitude (1643-1691)
Robert Beverley, The History and Present State of Virginia (1705)
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| WEEK FOUR |
| September 14 |
Lecture 5: Social Utopia and Confronting Dissent in New England |
| › response sheet 5 |
Reading Guide for Week 4 |
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Documents:
John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630)
John Winthrop, “Reasons to be considered for justifying....” (ca. 1629)
Reading:
Victoria Freeman, “Not-So-Distant Relations?” (common-place.org 3:1, October 2002)
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| September 16 |
Lecture 6: Social Hierarchy and Confronting Disorder in New England |
| › response sheet 6 |
Reading Guide for Week 4 |
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Documents:
Thomas Shephard II, letter to his son Thomas Shepard III at college (1672)
Increase Mather, An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing (1684)
Nicholas Noyes, “Reasons against Wearing of Periwiggs” (ca. 1703)
Reading:
Elizabeth Reis, “The Trouble with Angels” (common-place.org 1:3, April 2001)
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| WEEK FIVE |
| September 21 |
Lecture 7: Social Expansion — Migration and Consumerism |
| › response sheet 7 |
Reading Guide for Week 5 |
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Documents:
William Byrd, diary extracts (1709-1712)
George Washington, “Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation” (ca. 1744-1748) [see Files in Canvas]
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| September 23 |
Lecture 8: Cultural Diversity — Enlightenment and Awakening |
| › response sheet 8 |
Reading Guide for Week 5 |
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Document:
Charles Woodmason, diary and sermon notes (1767-1768)
Reading:
John Murrin, “Beneficiaries of Catastrophe: The English Colonists in America,” in The New American History, Eric Foner, ed. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990), pp. 3-23. [see Files in Canvas]
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| September 23-26 |
Lotus World Music Festival, Bloomington IN |
| WEEK SIX |
| September 28 |
Lecture 9: Global War and Imperial Crisis |
| › response sheet 9 |
WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1 DUE |
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Reading Guide for Week 6 |
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Documents:
Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. (1751)
John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law (1765)
Writing Exercise #1:
Working Hypothesis
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| September 30 |
Lecture 10: Local Resistance and the Politicization of Everyday Life |
| › response sheet 10 |
Reading Guide for Week 6 |
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Documents:
Continental Association (1774)
Continental Congress, Tory acts (1775-1776)
Continental Congress, negotiations with King George III (1775-1776)
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| WEEK SEVEN |
| October 5 |
Lecture 11: Independence and War — Dilemmas of Choosing Sides |
| › response sheet 11 |
Reading Guide for Week 7 |
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Documents:
Connecticut slaves’ petition for freedom (1779)
“The Sentiments of an American Woman” (1780)
Writing Exercise #2:
Thesis Statement and Topic Sentences
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| October 7 |
Lecture 12: Revolutionary War — Creating International Alliances, Creating New Identities |
| › response sheet 12 |
Reading Guide for Week 7 |
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Documents:
Appeals for religious freedom (1783, 1786)
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)
Benjamin Rush, “An Address ... on the Defects of the Confederation” (1787)
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| WEEK EIGHT |
| October 12 |
Lecture 13: Confederation and Constitution — Creating a New Government, Creating a New Nation |
| › response sheet 13 |
Reading Guide for Week 8 |
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Documents:
United States Constitution (1787-1789)
Bill of Rights (1789-1791)
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| October 14 |
Lecture 14: Citizenship in the Early Republic — Creating New (White) Women, Creating New (White) Men |
| › response sheet 14 |
Reading Guide for Week 8 |
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Documents:
United States naturalization laws (1790, 1795)
John Adams appraises the people (1765, 1776, 1790)
William Manning, “The Key of Liberty” (1799)
Writing Exercise #3:
Diagnosing a strong versus weak paper
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| WEEK NINE |
| October 19 |
Lecture 15: Transition to Capitalism — Slavery and Freedom after the American Revolution |
| › response sheet 15 |
Reading Guide for Week 9 |
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Document:
Benjamin Banneker, public exchange with Thomas Jefferson (1791)
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| October 21 |
Lecture 16: Transition to Capitalism — Industrialization in New England |
| › response sheet 16 |
Reading Guide for Week 9 |
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Documents:
John S.C. Abbott, The Mother at Home (1833)
Harriet Robinson, autobiography (1831-1836)
New England factory protest (1845-1846)
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| WEEK TEN |
| October 26 |
Lecture 17: Transition to Democracy — Male Voting and Male Violence |
| › response sheet 17 |
WRITING ASSIGNMENT #2 DUE |
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Reading Guide for Week 10 |
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Documents:
William Otter, autobiography (1807)
Northern working men’s declarations (1829-1844)
Abraham Lincoln, “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions” (1838)
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1840)
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| October 28 |
Lecture 18: Transition to Democracy — Immigration and American Identity |
| › response sheet 18 |
Reading Guide for Week 10 |
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Documents:
“Declaration of Principles of the Native American Convention” (1845)
Thomas R. Whitney, A Defence of the American Policy (1856) |
| October 29-31 |
IU Dance Marathon |
| WEEK ELEVEN |
| November 2 |
Lecture 19: Perfectionism — Religious Revival and Social Reform |
| › response sheet 19 |
Reading Guide for Week 11 |
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Documents:
Robert Owen, critique of individualism (1825-1826)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, critique of social conformity (1841-1844)
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| November 4 |
Lecture 20: Abolitionism — Politics of Race and Politics of Gender |
| › response sheet 20 |
Reading Guide for Week 11 |
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Documents:
David Walker, Appeal To the Coloured Citizens of the World (1830)
American Anti-Slavery Society, “Declaration of Sentiments” (1833)
Woman’s Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York (1848)
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| WEEK TWELVE |
| November 9 |
Lecture 21: Slavery in the Antebellum South — White Perspectives |
| › response sheet 21 |
Reading Guide for Week 12 |
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Documents:
George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or Slaves without Masters (1857)
United States Supreme Court, Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Reading:
Matthew Karp, “Arsenal of Empire: Southern Slaveholders and the U.S. Military in the 1850s” (common-place.org 12:4, July 2012)
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| November 11 |
Lecture 22: Slavery in the Antebellum South — Black Perspectives |
| › response sheet 22 |
Reading Guide for Week 12 |
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Documents:
Henry Highland Garnet, speech on slave resistance (1843)
Frederick Douglass, speech on the Fourth of July (1852)
The Narrative of James Roberts (1858)
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| WEEK THIRTEEN |
| November 16 |
Lecture 23: Westward Expansion — From Gold Rush in Georgia to Gold Rush in California |
| › response sheet 23 |
Reading Guide for Week 13 |
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Documents:
Andrew Jackson and John Ross, annual messages related to Cherokee Removal (1830)
John C. Calhoun, speech on Mexico (1848)
John C. Calhoun, speech on Oregon (1848)
William Walker, The War in Nicaragua (1860)
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| November 18 |
Special class — Stump the Chump |
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WRITING ASSIGNMENT #3 DUE |
| WEEK FOURTEEN |
| November 22-26 |
Thanksgiving break — no class |
| WEEK FIFTEEN |
| November 30 |
Lecture 24: Sectional Crisis and the Outbreak of Civil War |
| › response sheet 24 |
Reading Guide for Week 15 |
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Document:
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)
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| December 2 |
Course Conclusion I — Emancipation and the Legacies of American Identity |
| › response sheet 25 |
Reading Guide for Week 15 |
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Documents:
letter of former slave to former slaveowner (1865)
Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants” (1865)
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EXTRA CREDIT WRITING ASSIGNMENT DUE |
| WEEK SIXTEEN |
| December 7 |
Course Conclusion II — Global America? |
| › response sheet 26 |
Reading Guide for Week 16 |
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Optional Documents:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, statement on signing GI Bill (1944)
Ho Chi Minh, speech (1945)
United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Students for a Democratic Society, “Port Huron Statement” (1962)
CivWorld Citizens Campaign for Democracy, “Declaration of Interdependence” (2003)
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| December 9 |
Optional class — review session |
| WEEK SEVENTEEN |
| December 13-17 |
FINALS WEEK |
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TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAMINATION due no later than 7:30 p.m., Thursday, December 16 |
| WEEK EIGHTEEN |
| December 20-24 |
GRADING WEEK |