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Department of History  

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J. Holt Merchant
Newcomb Hall, Office No. 1
Office Hours:  1:30-3:00 MTWTF and by appointment

Required Reading:

George B. Tindall and David E. Shi, America, 5th ed., vol. 1
Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma
Mary Beth Norton, Liberty’s Daughters
Arnold A. Rogow, A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
John F. Marszalek, The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny and Sex in Andrew Jackson’s White House
Melton A. McLaurin, Celia, A Slave
Paul Finkelman, Ed., Dred Scott v. Sandford
T. Harry Williams, McClellan, Sherman and Grant

Lectures and Assigned Readings:

September 8:   Introduction to the Course

September 11, 13 & 15: The Evolution of Colonial America

September 18 &d 20:  The Uneasy Connection

September 22 & 25:  The Logic of Rebellion

September 27 & 29:  Problems of War and Confederation

October 2 & 4:  The Great Convention

By October 6, read: 
     Tindall and Shi, ch. 1- 7
     Morgan, complete 
     Norton, complete

October 6:   HOUR TEST

October 9 & 11:  Launching the Ship of State 

October 16 & 18:  The Fall of the Federalists

October 20:   The Revolution of 1800

October 23:   Impressments and Embargoes

 October 25:   The Era of Mixed Feelings

October 27 & 30:  Aristocrats and Agrarians

November 1 & 3:  ABiddled, Diddled and Undone!@

November 6:   The Peculiar Institution

November 8:   The Search for Utopia

by Nov 10, read: 
     Tindall and Shi, ch. 8-13 
     Rogow, complete
     Marszalek, complete

November 10:   HOUR TEST

November 13 & 15:  The Transformation of American Politics

November 17 & 27:  Bleeding Kansas and Bleeding Sumner

November 29 & December 1: Dred Scott, John Brown and the Crisis of Fear

December 4 & 6:  Lincoln, Johnson and Reconstruction

December 8:   Radical Success, Radical Failure

by December 9 read: 
     Tindall and Shi, ch. 14-18
     McLaurin, complete
     Finkelman, complete
     Williams, complete

December 9 - 15:  EXAMINATION