HSTA 304 Course Schedule

• Wood, American Revolution, Preface, ch. I
• 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. (Blackboard)

• Wood, American Revolution, ch. II

• George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, May 29, 1754
• Jacob Nicolas Moreau, A Memorial Containing a Summary View of the Facts (New York: Hugh Gaine, 1757), Early American Imprints, ser. 1, no. 7896, 70–86. (Blackboard)

• Find early coverage of the Stamp Act in May/June 1765
• Boston Gazette, Aug. 19, 1765
• Boston News-Letter, Aug. 29, 1765
• New-York Mercury, Sept. 9, 1765
• Pennsylvania Gazette, Oct. 31, 1765
• Georgia Gazette, Nov. 21, 1765
• Find coverage of repeal in May/June 1766

The above are all available through the America’s Historical Newspapers database via the library website.

• Wood, American Revolution, ch. III

• Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 (Chapel Hill: IEAHC, University of North Carolina Press, 1979), Prologue and Ch. 1 (3-53) (Blackboard)
• Harold Gill and George M. Curtis III, eds., A Man Apart: The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1781(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009), Ch. 3, 100-27 (Blackboard)
• Maier, American Scripture, introduction, ch. 1

• Thomas Paine, Common Sense (Philadelphia, 1776), excerpt. (Blackboard)

• Maier, American Scripture, chs. 2-3
• Declaration of Independence (1776)

• Jim Piecuch, “Incompatible Allies: Loyalists, Slaves, and Indians in Revolutionary South Carolina,” in War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts, ed. John Resch and Walter Sargent (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007), pp. 191-214. (Blackboard)
• Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (New York: Random House, 2015), ch. 12. (Blackboard)

• Wood, American Revolution, chs. IV-V

• Constitution of Massachusetts (1780)
• Constitution of Pennsylvania (1776)

• Kerber, Women of the Republic, chs. 2-4

• Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (1781)

• Holton, Unruly Americans, 3-123

• United States Constitution (1787)

• Holton,Unruly Americans, 127-223

• Holton, Unruly Americans, pp. 227-78
• Bill of Rights (1791)

• Kerber, Women of the Republic, ch. 6
• Manisha Sinha, “To ‘cast just obliquy’ on Oppressors: Black Radicalism in the Age of Revolution, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 64, no. 1 (2007): 149-60.
• Ruth Wallis Herndon & Ella Wilcox Sekatau, “The Right to a Name,” Ethnohistory 44, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 443-54.

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
• Declaration of Independence of Haiti (1804) (Blackboard)
• Address of Simón Bolivár at the Congress of Angostura (1819)

• Kerber, Women of the Republic, chs. 7-9
• David S. Shields and Fredrika J. Teute, “The Republican Court and the Historiography of a Women’s Domain in the Public Sphere,” Journal of the Early Republic 35, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 169-183

• Maier, American Scripture, ch. 4

• Zara Anishanslin, “’This Is the Skin of a Whit[e] Man’: Material Memories of Violence in Sullivan’s Campaign,” in The American Revolution Reborn, edited by Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), 187-204. (Blackboard)