MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
History 1011
Fall, 2007
Development of America I
Mr. Bowling
D. Smith
Pauline Maier et
alia, Inventing America, 2nd ed., v. 1 (New York, 2006).
Philip
Otterness, Becoming
German;
The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York
(Ithaca, 2004).
Edmund
S. Morgan, Benjamin Franklin (New
Haven,
James
G. Cusick., The
Other War of 1812; The Patriot War & the American
Invasion of Spanish East Florida (Athens, 2003).
Joel
H. Silbey, Storm
Over Texas; The Annexation Controversy & the Road to
Civil War (New York, 2005).
John
Bowles, Exiles & Pioneers; Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West
(Cambridge, 2007).
Ernest
B. Furgurson, Chancellorsville,
1863 (New
York, 1993).
Requirements:
1. Attendance.
2. Participation.
3. Readings.
4. Successful
completion of three examinations.
| Topics | Readings |
|
| Aug. 27- 30 | The New Worlds | Maier,
chs. 1, 2 |
| Sept. 3 | L
A B O R D A Y |
|
| Sept. 6 | Virginia | Maier,
ch. 3 |
| The Puritan Experiment | Maier, ch. 4 | |
| Sept. 10-13 | The Great Awakening | |
| The Colonial Economy | Otterness | |
| Sept. 17-20 | "Salutary Neglect" | |
| Origins of the Revolution | ||
| Birth of a Nation | Maier, ch. 5 | |
| Sept. 24 | The Critical Period | Morgan |
| The New Constitution | ||
| The Indispensable Man | Maier, ch. 6 | |
| Sept. 27 | FIRST EXAMINATION | |
| Oct. 1-4 | Jefferson vs. Hamilton | |
| The Revolution of 1800 | ||
| Oct. 8 | COLUMBUS DAY | |
| Oct. 9-11 | Jeffersonianism in Practice | Maier, chs. 7-8 |
| Why the War of 1812? | ||
| Oct. 15-18 | Lessons of "Victory" | Cusick |
| Farmers & Others | ||
| Oct. 22-25 | Andrew Jackson, Symbol | Maier, chs. 9-10 |
| Prelude to Civil War | ||
| Oct. 29-Nov. 1 | 2-Party Politics | Maier, chs. 11-13 |
| The Peculiar Institution | Sibley | |
| Varieties of Anti-Slavery | ||
| Nov. 5 | SECOND EXAMINATION | |
| Nov. 8 | The First Age of Report | Maier, ch. 14 |
| Going West | ||
| Nov. 12-15 | 1850s: Decade of Crises | Maier, ch. 15 |
| Nov. 19 | Crisis: 1860-61 | Bowles |
| Nov. 22 | THANKSGIVING | |
| Nov. 26-29 | Civil War: Order of Battle | Maier, ch. 16 |
| Dec. 3-6 | The Union Preserved | Furguson |
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