MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

 

History 1011                                                                           Fall, 2006

Development of America I                                                       Mr. Bowling

                                                                                              J. Tellier

Books:

Pauline Maier et alia, Inventing America, v. 1 (New York, 2006).

Stephen Brumwell, Redcoats; The British Soldier & War in the Americas, 1755-1763
    (Cambridge, 2001).

Patricia Brady, Martha Washington; An American Life (New York, 2006).

Richard Buel, Jr., America on the Brink; How the Political Struggle Over the War of

    1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic (New York, 2005).  

David Dary, The Oregon Trail; an American Saga (New York, 2004).

Ernest B. Furgurson, Freedom Rising; Washington in the Civil War (New York, 2004).

Louis Gerteis, Civil War St. Louis (Lawrence, 2001).  

Requirements:

1.  Attendance.

2.  Participation.

3.  Readings.

4.  Successful completion of three examinations.

 

Schedule:

                   Topics                                               Readings

Aug. 28-               The New Worlds                                Maier, chs. 1, 2  
   31  

Sept. 4                  L A B O R   D A Y

 

Sept. 7                  Virginia                                             Maier, ch. 3

                            The Puritan Experiment                      Maier, ch. 4

Sept. 11-14           The Great Awakening                        

                   The Colonial Economy                       Brumwell

Sept. 18-21           “Salutary Neglect”                             

Origins of the Revolution

                   Birth of a Nation                               Maier, ch. 5

Sept. 25                The Critical Period                             Brady

                   The New Constitution

                             The Indispensable Man                       Maier, ch. 6

 

Sept. 28                F I R S T   E X A M I N A T I O N

 

Oct. 2-5                Jefferson vs. Hamilton                                                                           

                             The Revolution of 1800

 

Oct. 9                  C O L U M B U S   D A Y

 

Oct. 12                 Jeffersonianism in Practice                 Maier, chs. 7-8      

                   Why the War of 1812?                       

Oct. 16-19            The Lessons of “Victory”                   Buel

                   Farmers and Others

Oct. 23-26            Andrew Jackson, Symbol                   Maier, chs. 9-10

                   Prelude to Civil War                                    

Oct. 30-                Two-Party Politics                             Maier, ch. 11  
   Nov. 2                                                                       Dary

                   The Peculiar Institution                       

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

 

Nov. 6                  S E C O N D   E X A M I N A T I O N

 

Nov. 9                 The First Age of Reform                      Maier, ch. 14

                   Going West                                       

Nov. 13-16           The 1850s: Decade of Crises               Maier, ch. 15

Nov. 20                The Crisis of ‘60-’61                          Furgurson

 

Nov. 23                T H A N K S G I V I N G

 

Nov. 27-Dec.4      Civil War: Order of Battle                   Maier, ch. 16

Dec. 7                  The Union Preserved                         Gerteis

 

Dec. 11                F I N A L   E X A M I N A T I O N,   P A R T   O N E

Dec. 14                F I N A L   E X A M I N A T I O N,   P A R T   T W O