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Department of History  

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Required Reading:
     David Potter, The Impending Crisis
     William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion
     Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
     Stephen B. Oates, To Purge This Land With Blood
     Kenneth M. Stampp, America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink
     Robert W. Johannsen, ed., The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
     William W. Freehling and Craig W. Simpson, Eds., Secession  Debated: Georgia’s Showdown in 1860

Required Writing:

Four short (approximately 3 typed pages) papers on specific topics assigned by the professor.

One longer (approximately 15 typed pages) paper on a topic chosen by the student from the following list.  Footnotes, bibliography et cetera for the longer paper must conform to the dictates of Kate Turabian set forth in her Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations.  Bibliographies must be annotated.

     John Blassingame, ed., Slave Testimony
     Carol Bleser, ed., Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond
     John C. Calhoun, Disquisition on Government
     Thomas R. Dew, A Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832
     Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom
     George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All 
     George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South
     Hinton R. Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South
     Daniel R. Hundley, Social Relations in Our Southern States
     Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark, eds., No Chariot Let Down
     Francis Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation
     John Pendleton Kennedy, Swallow Barn
     Frederick Law Olmsted, Journey to the Seaboard Slave States
     Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey in the Back Country
     Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Required Cognate Course:

Students who have not already received credit for History 190: Bibliographical Resources must complete the course designed to complement History 344.  The course consists of seven one-hour sessions.  It will meet at 12:00 noon on September 12, 14, 19, 21, and 26, and October 3 and 5.
 

Tentative Schedule:

Week 1: Introduction to the Course
The Nature of Sectionalism
Sectionalism before 1845
Read: Potter, ch 1-2

Week 2:  Manifest Destiny: Texas, Oregon, Mexico
Read: Freehling, pp 353-458
Paper #1

Week 3:   The Battle for the Territories I : Unstable Compromise
Read: Potter, ch 3-5; Freehling, 458-535
 

Week 4: Slavery: Attack and Defense
Romantic Reform
Fire Eaters North & South
Read: Jacobs; Stampp, ch 5
Paper #2:

Week 5:  Battle for the Territories II: Bleeding Kansas
Read: Potter, 7-9; Oates, pp 1-273; Stampp, ch 1-3, 6; Freehling, ch 30-31

Week 6: Politics in Transition
Scott v. Sandford
Reading: Potter, 10-11; Stampp, ch 4, 7-9
Paper #3:

Week 7: Battle for the Territories III: Lecompton
Read: Potter, 12; Stampp, ch 10-12

Week 8: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
John Brown at Harpers Ferry
Reading: Potter, 13-14; Johannsen; and Oates, 274-361
Paper #4:

Week 9:  The Crisis of Fear
The Election of 1860
Attempts at Compromise
Reading: Potter, 15-18

Week 10: Secession
Reading: Potter, 19-20; Freehling and Simpson, complete 
 

Weeks 11 and 12:  Present and Evaluate Papers