HIST 2010

Readings & Assignments

Readings are taken from the textbook and this website. The chapter numbers in the schedule are from your textbook ( Nash, The American People) . The textbook readings are required, as are all of the Internet linked primary sources.

Weeks	Dates	Lecture Topic	Reading
1	Aug 25-29	Ancient America and Africa Three Worlds Collide	Carson, Chapter 1; Nash Chapter 1 Thomas Morton: Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England), 1637
2	Sep 1-5	Africa and the Atlantic World Three Worlds Collide	Nash, Chapter 2; Carson Chapter 2 Thomas Morton: Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England), 1637
3	Sep 8-12	Colonization in Early America Early Colonization Reading Reaction #1 Due Sep 11 Essays #1, 2, and 3 Due Sep 11	Nash, Chapter 3; Carson Chapter 3 William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation, c. 1650
4	Sep 15-19	Eighteenth Century Colonial Society: Slavery and Empire Indentured Servitude Origins of Slavery Slave Life and Resistance Changing Values Essay #4 Due Sep 18	Nash, Chapter 4-5; Carson Chapter 4 Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage, 1788 Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune of indentured Servants, 1754
5	Sep 22-26	The Revolutionary Era Defending the Empire Revolutionary Ideas Background to the Revolution The Growing Conflict War and the Creation of the American Republic What is a Revolution, Anyway? Revolutionary Changes Consequences of the Revolution ID Quiz #1 Sep 23 Reading Reaction #2 Due Sep 25 Essay #5 Due Sep 25	Nash, Chapters 6; Carson 5 Patrick Henry: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, March 23, 1775 Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766) Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crèvecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer ("What is an American?") 1782
6	Sep 29-Oct 3	A Post-Revolutionary People Nation Building and the Constitution Washington, Hamilton, and the Creation of American System Jefferson, Adam, and the Development of Political Parties Jeffersonianism and Early Expansionism I Id Quiz #2 Sep 30 Essay #6 Due Oct 1	Nash, Chapter 7; Carson Chapter 6 George Washington The Farewell Address
7	Oct 6-10	Creating a Nation for Whom? War of 1812 and Rise of U.S. Nationalism Race and the Early Republic The Missouri Compromise Id Quiz # 3 Oct 7 Essay #7 Due Oct 9	Nash, Chapter 8 John L. O'Sullivan: On Manifest Destiny, 1839 Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, 1832 Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls, 1834-1848
8	Oct 13-17	Society and Politics in the Early Republic The Missouri Compromise	Nash Chapter 9
9	Oct 20-24	Economic Transformations in the Northeast The Market Revolution Midterm Examination Oct 23	Nash Chapter 10
10	Oct 27-31	Slavery in the Old South Slavery and the South Essay #8 Due Oct 30	Nash, Chapter 11; Carson Chapter 7 George Fitzhugh, "The Blessings of Slavery" 1857 Benjamin Drew (ed): The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada Related by Themselves (selections)
11	Nov 3-7	Era of Reform Andrew Jackson and Politics in the Age of Reform Religion and Reform Abolitionism and Reform Essay #9 Due Nov 6	Nash, Chapter 13 Thomas Corwin, Against the Mexican War (1847) John L. O’Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity" (1845)
12	Nov 10-14	Manifest Destiny and Territorial Expansion Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion Supplemental Terms Essay #10 Due Nov 13	Nash, chapter 14; Carson, chapter 9 John C. Calhoun, The Southern Address, 1849; Abraham Lincoln: "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand," June 1858
13	Nov 17-21	The Impending Crisis - Territorial Expansion and The Sectional Crisis The Growing Crisis The Election of 1860 The South Secedes ID Quiz #4 Nov 18 Reading Reaction #3 Due Nov 18 Essays #11, 12 Due Nov 20	Nash Chapter 15; Carson, Chapter 15
14	Nov 24-28	Crucible of Freedom: The American Civil War The Agony of War Emancipation and the Impact of War ID Quiz #5 Nov 25 Reading Reaction #4 Due Nov 25 Essays #13, 14 Due Nov 25	Nash, Chapter 16; Carson. Chapter 11 Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address, 1865 The Christian Recorder, 1864
15	Dec 1-4	Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution D Quiz #6 Dec 2 Reconstruction	Nash, Chapter 16; Carson. Chapter 11
Finals	Dec 5-12	Final Study Guide - Thursday, May 1, 12-30-2:30 pm

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