HIST2111 AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1865 Spring Semester 2003

General Information

Call # 39-781 MWF 10:10-11:00 AM Journalism 404A Note New Location!

Call # 29-545 MWF 12:20-1:10 PM Caldwell 203

Instructor: Michael Gagnon

Phone	Office	Office Hours	Email
542-2510	334 LeConte Hall	Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30- 2:00 PM	mgagnon@arches.uga.edu

Required Texts James L. Roark, et al, The American Promise: A History of the United States to 1877, Compact Second Edition, Vol. 1, (Boston: Bedford Books, 2003) ISBN: 0–312–40359–3 James W. Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, After the Fact: the Art of Historical Detection, Vol. 1 (New York: McGraw Hill, 2000) ISBN: 0-07-229427-2 Jules R. Benjamin, A Student's Guide to History 8th edition. (Boston: Bedford Books, 2001) ISBN: 0-312-24765-6 Course Requirements

General Goals: This is a lecture course with 2 tests, a five page interpretive paper, and a grade based on your performance on quizes. The first test will count 25% of the final grade. The final exam IS cumulative and will count 35% of the final grade. The paper constitutes 20% of the final grade. The remaining 20% of the final grade will be derived from quizes and classroom exercises. Students are expected to attend class regularly, to come prepared for class, and to participate in class discussions. While the content of this course is central, other goals include raising students' critical thinking skills, and introducing them to historiography and historical methods. So we will read, think about what we read, and discuss what we thought about.   Grading Summary Assignment Percentage of Final Grade Midterm Test 25% Final Exam 35% Interpretive Paper 20% Quizes 20% Total: 100% Attendance & Preparation: Coming to class prepared is essential to learning. Although I will not grade your attendance, I expect you to attend class regularly. If a student misses more than six classes, I will withdraw the student from the course. I will not check excuses.If tardiness becomes a problem, I will bar the door to tardy students. Interpretive Paper: Each student will write an 5-7 page paper based upon a secondary text (one written by a professional historian) chosen from the lists of readings at the end of each chapter of the Roark textbook. First make sure it is about a topic you are interested in. If you don't find the topic interesting, I won't either and your grade will reflect it. Secondly, you should choose one that is currently available at UGA, or one that you are willing to purchase. I will not adjust deadlines due to your inability to obtain a book.   Click Here for the website that contains the lists of possible texts. Remember that you CANNOT use primary texts (like autobiographies) or collections of essays. When in doubt, ask me.   After choosing a book, your job is to analyse it to discover the principle methods of historical detection used by its author, and to assess the book's place in the historiography (that is, what do historians think about it). First consult A Student's Guide to History for a description of how to approach and format a book review for history. Next you will use the After the Fact text to determine the methods of analysis the your book's author used in coming to his or her conclusions. To assess where your book fits in the historiography, you will research scholarly history reviews of your book to discover what professional historians think about it. The best scholarly reviews can be found in H-Net Reviews, Reviews in American History or the New York Review of Books. You should aim for using a minimum of three, if not more, such reviews written by historians.   Interpretive Paper Deadlines Assignment Deadlines Choose Book January 31 Bibliography of Reviews February 21 Final Draft March 14 Deadlines: I expect everyone to meet all the deadlines posted here. You may turn in work early, but everything is due by the start of class on the day it is due. I will not accept papers emailed to me without my prior permission to do so, and I will only accept it then if it attached as a Word or Word Perfect file. No other formats will be accepted.) Failure to meet any of the preliminary deadlines will deduct 1 point per day late from your research project grade. Failure to turn in the final draft on time, will cost you 10 points per day late. Also, I expect your preliminary work to reflect an honest effort, not a last second attempt to placate me. I expect the name of your book, and a note as to whether you have procured it, as the product of the first deadline. Either check it out of UGA library, or look at your own local library (or even purchase the book, if necessary.) I expect you to have looked at America: History & Life, JSTOR, Project Muse, and the New York Review of Books websites to find reviews to list in your bibliography. Your final grade on this project will reflect both how well you meet the deadlines and how much thought and effort you put into it. Plagiarism: A quick note about plagiarism. Plagiarism is the quoting or the paraphrasing of any portion of another author's words or ideas without giving full credit to the original author. In short, it is theft of intellectual property. Anyone caught plagiarizing in any part of the assignments for this class, including tests, will dealt with according to the academic integrity policy found in the student handbook. I have the same technology available to discover your plagiarism that you have to do it with. So don't do it.. Summary of Paper Project: In 5-7 pages, summarize a book, analyse the methods used by its author to come to its conclusions (using the after the Fact book), and assess how useful this book is considered by historians who know the field (using several scholarly book reviews). Papers completed in the fulfillment of my course become the property of the University of Georgia and I may mount any of those papers on a webpage, at my discretion. Research References I expect you to use these references for your research. Start with these. GIL UGA's Library Catalog America: History and Life Use these next New York Review of Books H-Net Reviews Project Muse If you are off-campus, click here to access many of the above databases. Be sure to remember the password for this semester. Galileo Databases Tests: The midterm will take one full class period. The second test will take place during finals and will receive the allotted time for a final. Approximately thirty per cent of the midterm test will be objective questions (such as multiple choice questions or completing a sequence of events) while the remainder will consist of an essay. The final exam will be half objective and half essay. Make-up Tests: All make-up tests will be essay tests and will take place on the last day of class for the semester (May 1). If you know you will miss an exam, you should let me know as soon as you know, or at least 3 class days in advance of the test. If an emergency unavoidably prevents you from attending a test, you should contact me immediately following your return to school to let me know you are interested in taking a make-up, and you should contact the Office of Student Affairs, who will verify your excuse before I will allow you to take a make-up. Final Exam Conflicts: Always check your final exam schedule before the last week of classes to determine if you will have a conflict. There are published procedures for what to do for conflicts and you should follow them. If you are going to pursue the conflict procedure, you should let me know not later than the last week of classes that you are submitting a request to student affairs. If you do not follow university procedure, I am not allowed to let you to take an exam at a special time.   Test Dates Midterm Friday February 28 Make-up Test Thursday May 1 Final Exam 10:10 AM Section Monday, May 5 8:00-11:00 AM 12:20 PM section Friday, May 9 8:00-11:00 AM.

January 10
Course Introduction

January 13
Invasion of America
Promise: pp. 18-43

January 14
Add/Drop Ends

January 15
The Chesapeake Colonies
Promise: pp. 44-60

January 17
Discussion

	Instructions to Jamestown Colonizers
	John Whites Drawings of Native Americans in Virginia	Click on each of the last three engravings of this collection to view at full size and read their descriptions
	Indentured Servant writes home.
	Bacon's Rebellion

January 20
King Holiday - No Classes

January 22
The Southern Colonies
Promise: pp. 60-65 & 98-104

January 24
Discussion
Fact: pp. 1-22

Middle Passage

January 27
The Puritans' Errand into the Wilderness
Promise: pp. 66-79

January 29
New England's Decline
Promise: pp. 92-94

January 31 Discussion

Book Choice Due

Fact: pp. 23-47

	Model of Christian Charity
	Half-Way Covenant	Skim document up to Half-Way Covenant, and then read that paragraph closely.

February 3
Becoming American
Promise: pp. 79-92, 94-98, 104-113

February 5
Constitutions of the British Empire
Promise: pp. 114-123

February 7
Discussion

	Diverse Immigration
	Stono Rebellion	Just read the section on the Stono Rebellion
	Great Awakening	Read the section entitled "THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM"
	Albany Plan of Union

February 10
Consequences of the French & Indian War
Promise: pp. 123-138

February 12
Ideology of the Revolution
Promise: pp. 139-151 & 156-165

February 14
Discussion
Fact, pp. 48-70

	Stamp Act Congress	Skim this document
	Boston Massacre Propaganda	Read this page, then explore the link to other pictures.
	Time Line of the events leading to the American Revolution
	Loyalists	Explore this entertaining site dedicated to celebrating those Americans who chose to remain loyal to King and Country

February 17
The Revolution as a Social Revolution
Promise: pp. 151-156

February 19
Race & Gender in the Age of Revolution
Promise: 1669-174

February 21 Discussion

Review Bibliography Due

Fact: pp. x-xxix

	Religious Freedom

February 24
Confederation
Promise: pp. 174-180

Northwest Ordinance

Is this a strength or weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

February 26
Constitution
Promise: pp. 180-187

	Federalist No. 10	What is the main point of this political tract, and why do you think they bother making the point?
	Time Line of the events leading to the Constitution's Adoption

Timelines		Other Useful Data
	Colonial History		Identification Terms
	American Revolution		Maps
	Ratification of the Constitution		Essay Questions

March 3
The Federalist Era
Promise: pp. 210-231

March 5
Triumph of the Democratic-Republicans
Promise: pp. 232-255

March 7

Last day to withdraw without penalty

Discussion

	The Sedition Act
	Kentucky Resolves
	Marbury v Madison
	Hartford Convention

March 10
The Market Revolution
Promise: pp. 256-264

March 12
Industrialization
Promise: pp. 282-283, 317-328

March 14 Discussion

Final Draft of Paper Due

	Waltham-Lowell System
	Lowell Mill Girls
	Erie Canal

March 17-21 SPRING BREAK

March 24
Age of Jackson
Promise: pp. 264-267, 275-281

March 26
Nullification Crisis
Promise: pp. 284-285

March 28
Discussion
Fact: pp. 71-95

	SC Ordinance of Nullification

March 31
The Business of Slavery
Promise: pp. 286-296, 311-315

April 2
The Slave Society of the Old South
Promise: pp. 296-311

April 4
Discussion

	Northern Economic Support of Slavery
	Material Conditions of Slaves
	Slave Family Life
	Confessions of Nat Turner	Read the introduction thoroughly and then skim the rest of this document
	Abolitionism & Anti-Abolitionism	Just Briefly Browse these items

April 7
Religion & Reform
Promise: pp. 214, 247-249, 267-275, 328-332, 362-363

April 9
Manifest Destiny
Promise: pp. 332-349

April 11
Discussion
Fact: pp. 96-121

	Utopian Communities
	Women's Rights

April 14
The Failure of Compromise
Promise: pp. 350-364

April 16
The Slippery Slope
Promise: pp. 364-373;

April 18
Discussion
Fact: pp. 122-146

	Wilmot Proviso, 1846
	Interpretive Portrait of John Brown
	Northern Editorial about Dred Scott Decision in 1857
	Southern Editorial about Dred Scott Decision	Just skim this one, and then read the last paragraph thoroughly.

April 21
Secession
Promise: pp. 374-393

April 23
Civil War
Promise: pp. 393-411

April 25
Discussion

	Presidential Campaign Poster from 1860
	Emancipation Proclamation
	Political Cartoon in favor of Emancipation

April 28
Reconstruction
Promise: pp. 412-432

April 30
Redemption
Promise: pp. 433-441

Thursday! May 1

Last Day of Class

Make-up Tests

Discussion
Fact: pp. 147-177

	Black Codes
	Who in the South should be trusted?
	Klu Klux Klan Terrorism

Final Exam Study Guide 10:10 AM Section is scheduled for Monday, May 5, 2003, from 8:00 until 11:00 AM 12:20 PM section is scheduled for Friday, May 9, 2003, from 8:00 until 11:00 AM. All exams will take place in our regular class rooms.

	Timelines & Handouts		Other Useful Data
	Antebellum Politics		Identification Terms
	Bank Panics		Maps
	Political Parties		Essay Questions
	Civil War & Reconstruction