MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

 

History 1011                                                                   Fall, 2005

Development of America I                                               Mr. Bowling

                                                                                      T. Resch

Books:

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

Judith L. Van Buskirk, Generous Enemies; Patriots & Loyalists in
            Revolutionary New York (Philadelphia, 2002).

John Ferling, A Leap in the Dark; The Struggle to Create the 
            American Republic (New York, 2004).

Andrew S. Trees, The Founding Fathers & the Politics of
            Character (Princeton, 2003).

Andres Resendez, Changing National Identities at the Frontier;
            Texas & New Mexico, 1800-1855 (Cambridge, 2004).

Richard Franklin Bensel, The American Ballot-Box & the Mid-19th
            Century  (Cambridge, 2004).

Richard Moe, The Last Full Measure; The Life & Death of the
            First Minnesota Volunteers (Minneapolis, 2001).

Requirements:

1.  Attendance.

2.  Participation.

3.  Readings.

4.  Successful completion of three examinations.

 

Schedule:

                   Topics                                               Readings

Aug. 29-               The New Worlds                                Maier, chs. 1, 2  
   Sept. 1  

Sept. 5                  L A B O R   D A Y

 

Sept. 8                   Virginia                                             Maier, ch. 3

                             The Puritan Experiment                      Maier, ch. 4

Sept. 12-15            The Great Awakening                        

                   The Colonial Economy                       Van Buskirk

Sept. 19-22            “Salutary Neglect”                             

Origins of the Revolution

                   Birth of a Nation                                 Maier, ch. 5

Sept. 26-29            The Critical Period                   

                   The New Constitution

                             The Indispensable Man                      Maier, ch. 6

 

Oct. 3                   F I R S T   E X A M I N A T I O N

 

Oct. 6                    Jefferson vs. Hamilton                       Ferling                                                    

                             The Revolution of 1800

 

Oct. 10                  C O L U M B U S   D A Y

 

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

                   Why the War of 1812?                       

Oct. 17-20             The Lessons of “Victory”                  Trees

                   Farmers and Others

Oct. 24-27             Andrew Jackson, Symbol                   Maier, chs. 9-10

                   Prelude to Civil War                                    

Oct. 31-                Two-Party Politics                              Maier, ch. 11  
   Nov. 3

                   The Peculiar Institution                       

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

 

Nov. 7                   S E C O N D   E X A M I N A T I O N

 

Nov. 10                 The First Age of Reform                    Maier, ch. 14

                   Going West                                       Resendez                             

Nov. 14-17            The 1850s: Decade of Crises              Maier, ch. 15

Nov. 21                 The Crisis of ‘60-’61                         Bensel

 

Nov. 24                 T H A N K S G I V I N G

 

Nov. 28-Dec.1       Civil War: Order of Battle                   Maier, ch. 16

Dec. 5                   The Union Preserved                          Moe