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Course Objectives:
1. To understand key developments and themes in Atlantic, North American, and United
States history from 1400 to 1877.
2. To introduce history is a question framing and a problem solving discipline by
developing critical reading skills.
Required Texts:
The following books can be purchased at the UTD bookstore or at Off Campus Books,
581 W. Campbell Road, #201. All additional weekly readings are available on Web
CT.
1. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America, Colin G.
Caloway, ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, first edition (paperback)
3. Mary Beth Norton, et al. A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Vol. I
to 1877 (Brief Seventh Edition)
Assignments:
1. Assigned readings must be completed before the first class meeting of each week.
2. There will be two examinations during the semester. The first will take place on
September 21, 2010 and the second will take place on October 28, 2009.
3. The final exam will take place on December 9, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.
Academic Lecture Topics Readings
Calendar **All readings must be completed
by the first meeting of the week
they are assigned**
Week 1. Introduction
Thu. Aug. 19 What is history? No Reading
Week 2. Cultures Apart … at Least Partly: The Atlantic World after 1400
Tue. Aug. 24 Africa, Europe, and North America Reading:
-Norton, et al., 1-19
Thu. Aug. 26 Europe and North America Discover -Requerimiento, 1510
Each Other -Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan,
Chapter 13
-Calloway, 23-41
Week 3. Saved By Tobacco: Chesapeake Colonies
Tue. Aug. 31 Dying and Living in the Chesapeake Reading:
-Norton, et al., 20-56
-Richard Frethorne, letter to his
parents (1623)
Virginia Laws of Servitude and
Thu. Sep. 2 Tobacco and Slaves Slavery (1643-1691)
Week 4. Seeking God’s Salvation: Greater New England
Tue. Sep. 7 Varieties of New England Puritanism Reading:
-Calloway, 46-65
-John Winthrop, “A Modell of
Christian Charity” (1630)
Thu. Sep. 9 Film: Black Robe -The Trial of Bridget Bishop, an
Accused Witch, Salem (1692)
-Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity
Narrative (1676), excerpt
Week 5. Changing Puritanism and Quaker Settlements: New England, continued, and the
Middle Colonies
Tue. Sep. 14 Puritanism and Social Change Reading:
- The Infortunate, 1-62
-William Penn, “Frame of
Thu. Sep. 16 Pennsylvania Government for Pennsylvania”
Preface (1682)
Week 6. Caribbean Connections: The Lower South
Tue. Sep. 21 Exam One Reading:
-Norton, et al., 57-73
Thu. Sep. 23 Carolina and Georgia - The Infortunate, 63-108
-South Carolina Slave Codes
-“Some Account of the Designs of
the Trustees for Establishing the
Colony of Georgia in America”
(1733)
Week 7. The Expansion, Maturation, and Integration of 18th Century British America
Tue. Sep. 28 Politicking and Praying Reading:
-Norton, et al., 74-91
Thu. Sep. 30 Living and Buying -Calloway, 125-144
-Jonathan Edwards
-Charles Woodmason
Week 8. Imperial Wars and the Unanticipated American Revolution
Tue. Oct. 5 King George the II’s Royal Commode Reading:
-Norton, et al., 92-108
-Virginia Resolves (1765)
-Resolves of the First Continental
Thu. Oct. 7 Tensions in the Empire Congress (1774)
-Thomas Paine, Common Sense
(1776)
Week 9. The Revolution Wants You!
Tue. Oct. 12 Becoming a Revolutionary: Lessons Reading:
from Boston and Beyond -Calloway, 146-169.
-“Dunmore’s Proclamation” (1775)
Thu. Oct. 14 Accepting and Rejecting Independence -Petitions by African Americans
-Declaration of Independence (1776)
Week 10. How Revolutionary Was The Revolution?
Tue. Oct. 19 Social and Cultural Answers Reading:
-Norton, et al., 109-141
Thu. Oct. 21 Constitutional and Political Answers -James Madison, “Memorial and
Remonstrance” (1785)
-United States Constitution (1787)
-Declaration of the Rights of Man
(1789)
-Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
(1794) Introduction
-The Key of Liberty: The Life and
Democratic Writings of William
Manning (1799)
Week 11. Democracy and its Discontents: The United States in the 1830s
Tue. Oct. 26 The Market Revolution and the Reading:
Redefinition of Democracy -Norton, et al., 142-180
-Northern Working Men’s
Thu. Oct. 28 Exam Two Declarations (1829-1844)
-Calloway, 170-183
Week 12. The Short Decline and Rapid Rebirth of American Slavery
Tue. Nov. 2 Cotton and the Creation of the “South” Reading:
-Norton, et al., 218-235
-David Walker, “Appeal to the
Coloured Citizens of the World”
(1830)
-John C. Calhoun, “Slavery a
Thu. Nov. 4 Southern Cultures: Black and White, Positive Good” (1837)
Enslaved and Free
Week 13. Reforming the Republic
Tue. Nov. 9 Evangelical Protestantism and Religious Reading:
Culture in the Antebellum United States -Norton, et al., 181-217
-Free Love Theology
Week 16. Ending Civil War and Beginning Reconstruction: Looking Ahead to the Modern
State
Tue. Nov. 30 The Fractured Nation State and the -Reconstruction Era Political
Course of War Cartoons
Sharecropping Contract, (1886)
Thu. Dec. 2 Uneven Emancipation: The Rise and -Minor v. Happersett, 21 Wallace,
Fall of Reconstruction 162 (1875)
FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, December 9, 2010 at 11:00 A.M. in JO 4.614
Grading and Important Dates:
** The professor reserves the right to amend this syllabus as needed throughout the
semester. Any changes made to this syllabus will be announced in class.**