MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

 

History 1011                                                           Fall, 2004

Development of America I                                       Mr. Bowling

                                                                               T. Resch

Books:

Pauline Maier et alia, Inventing America, vol 1 (New York, 2003).

Patrick Griffen, The People With No Name; Ireland’s Ulster Scots,

    America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British

     Atlantic World, 1689-1764 (Princeton, 2001).

Francis S. Fox, Sweet Land of Liberty; The Ordeal of the

     American Revolution in Northampton County,  Pennsylvania

    (University Park, 2000).

Bernard Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew; The Genius and

     Ambiguities of the American Founders (New York, 2003).

Christohper J. Olsen, Political Culture and Secession in

     Mississippi (New York, 2000).

Tom Chaflin, Fatal Glory; Narcisco Lopez and the First

    Clandestine U.S. War against Cuba  (Baton Rouge, 1996).

Steven E. Woodworth, While God is Marching On; The Religious

    World of Civil War Soldiers (Lawrence, 2001).

 

Requirements:

1.  Attendance.

2.  Participation.

3.  Readings.

4.  Successful completion of three examinations.

 

Schedule:

                   Topics                                       Readings

Sept. 2                  The New Worlds                        Maier, chs. 1, 2

 

Sept. 6                  L A B O R   D A Y

 

Sept. 9                  Virginia                                      Maier, ch. 3

                             The Puritan Experiment              Maier, ch. 4

Sept. 13-16            The Great Awakening                         

                   The Colonial Economy               Griffen

Sept. 20-23            “Salutary Neglect”                      Fox

                              Origins of the Revolution

                   Birth of a Nation                         Maier, ch. 5

Sept. 27-30            The Critical Period                    

                   The New Constitution

                             The Indispensable Man               Maier, ch. 6

 

Oct. 4                   F I R S T   E X A M I N A T I O N

 

Oct. 7                   Jefferson vs. Hamilton               

                             The Revolution of 1800

 

Oct. 11                  C O L U M B U S   D A Y

 

Oct. 13-14             Jeffersonianism in Practice         Maier, chs. 7, 8      

                   Why the War of 1812?                        

Oct. 18-21             The Lessons of “Victory”          Bailyn 

                   Farmers and Others

Oct. 25-28             Andrew Jackson, Symbol           Maier, chs. 9, 10 

                   Prelude to Civil War                                    

Nov. 1-4                Two-Party Politics                     Maier, ch. 11

                   The Peculiar Institution               Olsen

Varieties of Anti-Slavery             Maier, chs. 12, 13 

 

Nov. 8                   S E C O N D   E X A M I N A T I O N

 

Nov. 11                 The First Age of Reform            Maier, ch. 14

                   Going West                              

Nov. 15-18            The 1850s: Crises                        Maier, ch. 15

Nov. 22                 The Crisis of ‘60-’61                   Chaflin

 

Nov. 25                 T H A N K S G I V I N G

 

Nov. 29-Dec. 2     Civil War: Order of Battle            Maier, ch. 16

Dec. 6-9                The Union Preserved                   Woodsworth