HIST 225 Course Schedule

Last updated: November 26, 2018

 

	Topic	To Read Before Class	To Do Before Class
Weds., Sept. 5	Introduction
Thurs., Sept. 6	Why study history?	Thomas Andrews and Flannery Burke, “What Does It Mean to Think Historically?” Perspectives on History, Jan. 2007 W. Caleb McDaniel, “How to Read for History”	Blog post (Required)
Mon., Sept. 10	The American Revolution: A Brief Narrative	American Yawp, ch. 5	Complete Skills Module: Understanding Secondary Sources
Weds., Sept. 12	The Early Republic: A Brief Narrative	American Yawp, ch. 6
Thurs., Sept. 13	Classic Interpretations, Classic Questions	Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967), ch. 3. [password protected]	Blog post (Optional)
Mon., Sept. 17	Journals, Books, and Databases I	Class meets today in Whittemore Library, Room UM-14
Weds., Sept. 19	Journals, Books, and Databases II
Thurs., Sept. 20	Changing the Scholarly Conversation	T. H. Breen, “Ideology and Nationalism on the Eve of the American Revolution: Revisions Once More in Need of Revising,” The Journal of American History 84, no. 1 (1997): 13–39.	Blog post (Optional)
Mon., Sept. 24	How to Read for Argument	Katherine Carté Engel, “Revisiting the Bishop Controversy,” in The American Revolution Reborn, ed. Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman, Early American Studies (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), 132–49.
Weds., Sept. 26	How to Read a Book
Thurs., Sept. 27	Geographical Frameworks	DuVal, Independence Lost, Parts I and II	Blog post (Optional) Submit notes after class
Mon., Oct. 1	Citation: Showing Your Work	Browse Chicago Manual of Style	Complete Skills Module: Citing Sources Using Chicago Manual of Style
Weds., Oct. 3	How to Prepare for a Book Discussion
Thurs., Oct. 4	New Views of the Revolution	DuVal, Independence Lost, Parts III and IV	Blog post (Optional)
Mon., Oct. 8	COLUMBUS DAY	No class meeting
Weds., Oct. 10	How to Read a Book Review	Susanah Shaw Romney, Arkansas Historical Quarterly 75, no. 2 (2016): 165-167 James F. Brooks, William and Mary Quarterly 74, no. 3 (2017): 533-541. Woody Holton, New York Times, July 5, 2015 Christopher F. Minty, The Junto, August 27, 2015
Thurs., Oct. 11	Charters of Freedom?	Declaration of Independence (1776) Constitution of the United States (1787)	Blog post (Required)
Mon., Oct. 15	Methods: Gender	Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Chapel Hill, N.C.: IEAHC, University of North Carolina Press, 1980), ch. 4.
Weds., Oct. 17	Historical Revision
Thurs., Oct. 18	Women in the Revolution	Sara T. Damiano, “Writing Women’s History Through the Revolution: Family Finances, Letter Writing, and Conceptions of Marriage,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., vol. 74, no. 4 (2017): 697–728.	Blog post (Optional)
Mon., Oct. 22	Anatomy of an Article I	Primary sources as assigned from Damiano article	Complete Skills Module: How to Read a Primary Source
Weds., Oct. 24	Anatomy of an Article II	Secondary sources as assigned from Damiano article
Thurs., Oct. 25	The Research and Writing Process	Sources as assigned from Damiano article	Blog post (Required): Due by 8:30 a.m.
Mon., Oct. 29	Methods: What Counts as Politics?	Joanne B. Freeman, “Slander, Poison, Whispers, and Fame: Jefferson’s ‘Anas’ and Political Gossip in the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic 15, no. 1 (1995): 25–57.	Submit review essay proposal
Weds., Oct. 31	How to Make an Oral Presentation
Thurs., Nov. 1	Historiographical Questions	Catherine O’Donnell, “Literature and Politics in the Early Republic: Views from the Bridge,” Journal of the Early Republic 30, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 279–92. Duncan Faherty and Ed White, eds., Amelia: Or the Faithless Briton, Just Teach One (1789).
Mon., Nov. 5	Careers for History Majors	Visit by Career Services and Employer Relations	Blog post (Required): Due by 8:30 a.m.
Weds., Nov. 7	Historiography and Recent Scholarship		Bring notes for group presentation
Thurs., Nov. 8	Methods: Cultural History	David Waldstreicher, “Ancients, Moderns, and Africans: Phillis Wheatley and the Politics of Empire and Slavery in the American Revolution,” Journal of the Early Republic 37, no. 4 (2017): 701–33. Mitch Kachun, “Crispus Attucks: American Revolutionary Hero?,” Age of Revolutions (blog), March 5, 2018.
Mon., Nov. 12	Veterans Day	No class meeting
Weds., Nov. 14	Historiography and Recent Scholarship		Submit annotated bibliography Bring notes for group presentation
Thurs., Nov. 15	Historiography and Recent Scholarship	Presentations in-class
Mon., Nov. 19	Anatomy of a Review Essay	Ronald Angelo Johnson, “Not Your Fathers’ Revolution: Internationalizing American Independence,” Reviews in American History 46, no. 1 (2018): 14–20. Julia Gaffield, “Race and Nation During the Age of Revolution,” Reviews in American History 45, no. 3 (2017): 404–9.	Blog post (Optional)
Weds., Nov. 21	Review Essays and Scholarly Engagement		Bring three articles related to your essay topic to class
Thurs., Nov. 22	Thanksgiving	No class meeting
Mon., Nov. 26	Methods: Atlantic History	Maya Jasanoff, “The Other Side of Revolution: Loyalists in the British Empire,” William and Mary Quarterly 65, no. 2 (2008): 205–32.
Weds., Nov. 28	Laboratory Day	TBD
Thurs., Nov. 29	Historians and the American Revolution	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “‘Pursuits of Happiness’: Dark Threads in the History of the American Revolution,” in The Harvard Sampler: Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century, ed. Jennifer M. Shephard, Stephen Michael Kosslyn, and Evelynn Maxine Hammonds (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011), 341–66. Ken Owen, “Was The American Revolution A Good Thing?,” The Junto (blog), September 4, 2013.	Blog post (Required)
Mon., Dec. 3	Laboratory Day	TBD	Submit at least 1,000 words of review essay
Weds., Dec. 5	Editing and Revision	No class meeting—see schedule of individual meetings
Thurs., Dec. 6	Editing and Revision	No class meeting—see schedule of individual meetings
Mon., Dec. 10	Laboratory Day	TBD
Weds., Dec. 12	Laboratory Day	TBD
Thurs., Dec. 13	Writing Workshop		Bring complete draft of review essay to class