***Reading Assignments in Red Font
August 27 : Introduction and Syllabus -- all professors
September 1: "The Invention of America" - Oman 
Read Oman's O' Gorman text
Read in Hollinger: Winthrop (6-15)
September 3: "The Invasion Of America" - Craig
Read in Hollinger (Just skim these for main issues): Anne Hutchinson (29-39) and Roger Williams (40-47)
September 8: Puritan Era Poetry and Song: Bradstreet and the Aztecs - Permenter
Read handouts: Aztec ("Two Songs," "Like Flowers Continually Perishing") & Inuit ("Song," "Moved") poems; Bradstreet's "The Prologue" ("I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits")
Read (from link): Bradstreet's "Meditations" (notice also Rousseau and Edward Taylor on this page)
Read (from link) Bradstreet's poems "The Vanity of All Worldly Things" and "A Dialogue Between Old England and New"
September 10: A Model of Christian Charity
: A Natural Law Document - OmanYou will have read Winthrop (see Sept. 1 above).
September
15: Breakout Sessions The Crucible and Black RobeSeptember 17: "European Roots of American Liberalism" - Martin
Read Locke Second Treatise on Government, Chap. 1-5 (*5) on above link ----Locke as Whig
September 24: "The Weeping Cries of Nature": The American Revolution - Craig
Read in Hollinger: Jefferson (128-131) and List of Grievances (website), Paine (119-127)
Declaration Assignment Due (Take-Home Paper #1)
September 29: Paine v. Madison - Martin
Read in Hollinger: Madison (138-146), Hamilton (132-137), Adams (160-170), and Jefferson's letters (171, 184, 188, 191)
October 1: Breakout Session
October 6: Breakout Session See Oman's Review Questions
October 8: 1st Exam (Out-of-class Essay - literature exam component - Due)
October 13: The "Peculiar Institution" of Slavery - Craig
Read in Hollinger: Fitzhugh (416-426), Garrison (427-444), and Douglass (445-460)
Begin reading Lincoln at Gettysburg
October 20: Madison's Victory - Martin
Read in Hollinger: Warren (147-159), Calhoun (392-402)
October 22: "To Whom the Earth Belongs" - Oman
October 27: Rough and Tumble, Sam Patch, and Treasure Seeking - Craig
October 29: Breakout Session Amistad Quiz
November 3: "To `Live Deliberately' in Transcendental America" - Permenter
Read: Thoreau handout from Walden
Read in Hollinger: Emerson (291-301, 302-307, 316)
November 5: "Self-Reliance and a Night in Jail" - Martin ; "Nature and Experience" - Oman & Permenter
Read in Hollinger: Thoreau (350-362)
Check out this information on The Transcendentalists (Thanks, Z. Cooley)
Read Intro and Chapter 1 from Nature
November 10: Breakout
Session (Take-home Paper #2 Due)
(Begin reading Billy Budd)
November 12: The First Radical Reformers - Craig
November 17: "El Grito de Libertad":Mexico - Oman
November 19: "Struck Dead by an Angel: American Innocence" - Permenter
**You will have read Billy Budd
November 24: Breakout Session
Glory Quiz**You will have read Lincoln at Gettysburg
December 1: "This Fiery Trial - The Civil War in American Letters" -- Craig
Take-home Paper #3 (Billy Budd) Due
December 3: "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" - Permenter
Read in Hollinger: Fuller (333-348), Grimke (220-237), McCord (403-408, 415)
Read from website: Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman" and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions"
December 8: "The Words that Remade America - The Gettysburg Address" - Craig et.al.
Read in Hollinger: Lincoln (475 and 476-477)
December 10: Last class, all professors
Final Exam during the regularly scheduled final exam period; make no other plans.
No early Final Exams will be given.
Last updated by M.Blazic, Oct. 1, 1998
