Required/Supplementary Texts and Syllabus
for History 2111 and English 2131


Credit Hours 3 & 3 (a total of 6)
Spring 2001
Professor: Dr. Phillip Gibbs; Office: 01 Wiggs Hall
Hours:
E-mail: pgibbs@warrior.mgc.peachnet.edu

Professor: Dr. Leslie Rampey; Office: Roberts Library
Hours:
E-mail: lrampey@warrior.mgc.peachnet.edu

Required Texts:

Highly Recommended:

Required Materials:

Reading Assignments

Please remember, there will be a quiz on each reading assignment. In the literature anthology, be sure always to read the introduction to each author, and remember that the assignments include all footnotes. The Web links are there for your convenience and to provide you with additional material for your interest. You may use them or any relevant reference book to learn about names and terms.

GETTING ACQUAINTED
TH
1/4
Read: Know:
  • Baym, et al.:
      Begin to read Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, pp. 1331-1447. (While it is not "due" until later in the semester, it is highly relevant to our first several topics.)
  • The technology of the course:
    • Internet
    • Web
    • E-mail
    • HTML
    • WebCT
    • Bulletin Board


First bulletin board post and responses due by midnight Sunday, 1/7!
(NOTE: Sunday midnight will always be the deadline.)


THE ENGLISH BACKGROUND
TU
1/9
Read: Know:
  • Baym, et al.:
    • "Early American Literature, 1620-1820," pp. 153-157.
  • Tindall & Shi, pp. 9-28.


EARLY ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS
TH, 1/11 Read: Know:
  • Baym, et al.:
    • Supplemental Notes.
    • William Bradford, pp. 164-5
    • Thomas Morton, pp. 205-213 (skim).
    • John Winthrop, p. 214 (intro) and pp. 226-234 (skim with attention to the matter of Mrs. Hutchinson).
  • Tindall & Shi, pp. 29-60.


COLONIAL WAYS OF LIFE
TU
1/16
Read: Know:


NEW ENGLAND AND THE PURITAN WORLD
TH
1/18
Read: Know:


DEVELOPMENT OF A SOUTHERN SOCIETY
TU
1/23
Read: Know:
  • Burgesses
  • lubber


THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND ITS
IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE
TH
1/25
Read: Know:
  • Baym, et al.:
    • Benjamin Franklin, pp. 491-2;
  • Tindall & Shi, pp. 95-98.
TU
1/30


TH
2/1
Term project topic choice due!


THE COMING OF INDEPENDENCE
TH
2/1
Read: Know:
  • Baym, et al.:
    • Thomas Jefferson, pp. 712-3;
      • From the Autobiography and the Declaration, pp. 714-9.
  • "The Making of 1776" by Marc Kirkeby.
  • Historical Note by the Authors of 1776, Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards (handout).
  • Tindall & Shi, chapters 3 & 4.
TU
2/6
  • 1776, the musical play on video -- watch in class.
  • Identify:
    • "Fat George"
    • F.F.V.
    • the "necessary"
    • minuet
    • gavotte
    • Triangle Trade
    • "crossed the Rubicon"
  • Note Jefferson's swivel chair and portable writing desk.
  • Note the costuming of the delegates.


THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
TH
2/8
Read: Know:
  • Baym, et al.:
    • Thomas Paine's "The Crisis," pp. 699-705.
  • Tindall & Shi, chapter 5.


TU
2/13
Preliminary bibliography due!


CREATION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
TU
2/13
Read: Know:
  • Baym, et al:
    • The Federalist, pp. 742-751.
  • Tindall & Shi, chapter 6.
  • Federalism


TH
2/15
MIDTERM EXAM


EARLY YEARS OF THE NEW NATION:
THE CONFLICTING IDEAS OF HAMILTON AND JEFFERSON and
THE TENSION BETWEEN NEOCLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM
TU
2/20
Read: Know:
  • Baym, et al.:
    • Philip Freneau, pp. 806-08;
      • "The Wild Honey Suckle," "The Indian Burying Ground," "To Sir Toby," "On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man," pp. 816-20
  • Tindall & Shi, chapter 7.


TU
2/22
Preliminary thesis statement for paper due!


A NEW NATION - A NEW IDENTITY
TH
2/22
&
TU
2/27
Read: Know:


ROMANTICISM IN AMERICA
TH
3/1
Read: Know:
  • Baym, et al.:
    • "American Literature: 1820-1865," pp. 917-31
    • Washington Irving, pp. 934-6
      • "Rip Van Winkle," pp. 936-48
      • "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," pp. 948-69
    • James Fenimore Cooper, pp. 980-2


TU
3/6
Term project option choice due!


ROMANTICISM IN AMERICA (continued)
TU
3/6
Read: Know:
  • Tindall & Shi, pp. 397-415.
  • Baym, et al.:
    • Henry David Thoreau, pp. 1749-52
      • Walden, or Life in the Woods, pp. TBA
  • Thoreau
    • Civil Disobedience, source TBA
  • Transcendentalism


THE AGE OF JACKSON
TH
3/8
Read: Know:
  • Tindall & Shi, chapter 10.


A USABLE PAST
TU
3/13
Read: Know:
TH
3/15
  • The Scarlet Letter, through Chapter 15.


TU
3/20
Thesis statement, outline of paper, and description of Web project due!


A USABLE PAST (continued)
TU
3/20
Read: Know:
  • The Scarlet Letter, to end.
  • short story


THE OLD SOUTH IN MYTH AND REALITY
TH
3/22
Read: Know:


Tu
3/27
FIELD TRIP!


SLAVERY AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
TH
3/29
Read: Know:
  • Online readings, TBA


Tu
3/27
FREE DAY!


TH
4/12
Rough draft of paper due!


SLAVERY (continued)
TH
4/12
Read: Know:
  • novelette


TU
4/17
Final Web project due!


SECTIONALISM AND THE RISE OF SOUTHERN NATIONALISM
TU
4/17
Read: Know:
  • Tindall & Shi, Chapter 15


"A WAR SO TERRIBLE"
TH
4/19
Read: Know:
  • Tindall & Shi, Chapter 16


LINCOLN AND THE MEANING OF THE CIVIL WAR
TH
4/24
Read: Know:
  • Baym, et al.:
    • Walt Whitman, pp. 2076-80
      • "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," pp. 2175-81
      • other readings, TBA
  • Leaves of Grass
  • elegy
  • pastoral elegy
  • free verse


TH
4/26
Final term paper due!
Present to class Web projects and term papers!