J300, History of American Capitalisms, Spring 2022

Discussion:

• Learning in a time of crises:  pandemic, climate change, inequality, anti-democracy....

Discussion:

• 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?

Video:

Rockman, Seth.  “What Is Historical Reasoning?”  Brown University, August 2014.  [up to 2:32]

Reading:

Mitchell, Timothy.  “Economists and the Economy in the Twentieth Century.”  In The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and its Epistemological Others.  George Steinmetz, ed.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.  Pp. 126-141.

Reading:

Marks, Steven G.  “The Word ‘Capitalism’: The Soviet Union’s Gift to America.”  Society 49 (2012): 155-163.

Readings:

Postel, Charles.  Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896.  New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019.  Pp. 3-13 (Introduction).

Redman, Emily.  “Fiat Lux, or Who Invited Thomas Edison to the Tea Party?: Shedding Historical Light on the Light Bulb Controversy Dividing America.”  Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, January 2012.

Readings:

Mihm, Stephen.  “Accept No Imitations: The Campaign Against Counterfeits, Past and Present.”  Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, July 2004.

Zakim, Michael.  “Bookkeeping as Ideology”  Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, April 2006.

Edling, Max.  “When Johnny Comes Marching Home ... from the Bank.”  Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, October 2008.

Baptist, Ed.  “Toxic Debt, Liar Loans, and Securitized Human Beings: The Panic of 1837 and the Fate of Slavery.”  Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, April 2010.

Frankel, Oz.  “Hard Facts for Hard Times: Social Knowledge and Social Crisis in the Nineteenth Century.”  Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, April 2010.

Lepler, Jessica.  “Pictures of Panic: Constructing Hard Times in Words and Images.”  Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, April 2010.

Lawson, Andrew.  “Men of Small Property.”  Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, July 2010.

West, Peter.  “The City in Frames: Otis Bullard’s Moving Panorama of New York.”  Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, July 2011.

Bartram, Erin.  “Parenting for the ‘Rough Places’ in Antebellum America.”  Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, Spring 2018.

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Video:

“Riveted: The History of Jeans,” American Experience, Public Broadcasting System (2022).

Documents:

Continental Congress, land ordinance, April 23, 1784.

United States Constitution (1787-1789).

Documents:

Maheshwari, Sapna, and Corkery, Michael.  “Business Booms at Kroger-Owned Grocery Stores, but Workers Are Left Behind.”  New York Times, February 12, 2022.

Gardwell, Godek.  “Art. VIII. — Labor and other Capital.”  Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review, January 1, 1848.

Documents:

“Prospectus.”  Workingman’s Advocate, October 31, 1829.

A Working Woman.  “From the Boston Working Man’s Advocate.”  Workingman’s Advocate, August 28, 1830.

Documents:

“Connection of Learning with Commerce.”  The New-Yorker, November 14, 1840.

“The Ice Trade.”  The Rover: A Weekly Magazine of Tales, Poetry, and Engravings, November 13, 1844.

“Agricultural and Commercial Statistics.”  The Genesee Farmer, January 1846.

Document:

“Notice of the American Statistical Association.”  American Quarterly Register, May 1841.

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Document:

Lebergott, Stanley.  “Labor Force and Employment, 1800-1960” (1966).  Table 1 (The Labor Force, by Industry and Status 1800-1860); Table 2 (Percentage Distribution of the Labor Force, by Industry and Status ).

Document:

“Invention of a Slave: A new and useful machine invented by a slave cannot be patented.”  U.S. Attorney General’s Office, June 10, 1858.

Video:

“The Invasion of America, 1783-2010” (2014)

Maps:

Oberly, John H.  “Indian Territory.”  (1889).

Royce, Charles C.  “Indian Land Cessions in the United States.”  Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Americann Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-’97.”  Part 2.  Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1899.

Documents:

[Cass, Lewis.]  “Art. III. Removal of the Indians.”  North American Review, January 1830.

Images:

Currier, Nathaniel, and Ives, James Merritt.  “The Last Shot.”  (1858).

Currier, Nathaniel, and Ives, James Merritt.  “Across the Continent. Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way.”  (1868).

Reading:

Saunt, Claudio.  “Financing Dispossession: Stocks, Bonds, and the Deportation of Native Peoples in the Antebellum United States.”  Journal of American History 106 (2019): 315-337.

Reading:

Tomich, Dale, and Zeuske, Michael.  “Introduction: The Second Slavery: Mass Slavery, World-Economy, and Comparative Microhistories.”  Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 31 (2008): 91-100.

Documents:

The Southern Cultivator 1 (1843).

DeBow’s Commercial Review 1 (1846).

American Cotton Planter 1 (1853).

Brown, Aaron V.  “Thoughts on the Purposes of the Convention.”  DeBow’s Review, April 1852.

American Anti-Slavery Society.  “Franklin & Armfield’s Slave Prison.”  (broadside, 1836).

[slave coffle.]  In Featherstonhaugh, George W.  Excursion Through the Slave States: From Washington on the Potomac, to the Frontier of Mexico.  London: John Murray, 1844.  P. 1:121.

Goings, Henry.  Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery.  Stratford: Printed by J.M. Robb, 1869.

Documents:

Beecher, Catherine.  A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School.  Rev. ed.  New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1851.

Documents:

Model introduction.

Model paper.

Readings:

Frolick, Billy.  “1992 House.”  New Yorker, January 17, 2005.

Irwin, Neil.  “What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour.”  New York Times, May 13, 2016.

Website:

Wylie House Museum (1835), Bloomington IN