HSTY 111 Course Schedule

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Last updated: August 31, 2020

Date	Format	Topic	Read to Prepare for Class	Do to Prepare for Class
Fri., Sept. 4	Zoom	Introduction to the Course

Unit 1: Contacts and Colonies

Date	Format	Topic	Read to Prepare for Class	Do to Prepare for Class
Tue., Sep. 8	Zoom	The Indigenous Americas	American Yawp, ch. 1 During class: Native American creation stories Genesis 1: 1-31	Chapter quiz; Module on secondary sources
Fri., Sep. 11	Remote	Colliding Cultures	American Yawp, ch. 2	Chapter quiz; Module on primary sources
Tue., Sep. 15	Zoom	Cultural Encounters	John Winthrop, Sermon aboard the Arbella (1630) Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588), excerpt A Gaspesian Man Defends His Way of Life (1641) Petition of William and Joseph Wannuckhow, and John Appamatahqueen to the Court of Assistants (1676) Accusations of witchcraft (1692, 1706)	Journal entry
Fri., Sep. 18	Remote	Becoming British America	American Yawp, ch. 3	Chapter quiz; Module on Writing in Your Own Words
Tue., Sep. 22	Zoom	Imperial Growing Pains	English Bill of Rights (1689) Olaudah Equiano describes the Middle Passage (1789) Francis Daniel Pastorius describes his ocean voyage (1684) Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address Rose Davis is sentenced to a life of slavery (1715)	Journal entry
Fri., Sep. 25	Remote	The Maturing Colonies	American Yawp, ch. 4	Chapter quiz; Module on Writing Effective History Papers
Tue., Sep. 29	Zoom	Society and Culture in Colonial America	Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (excerpt) Boston trader Sarah Knight on her travels in Connecticut (1704) Eliza Lucas letters (1740-1741) Jonathan Edwards revives Northampton, Massachusetts (1741) Pontiac calls for war (1763) Samson Occom describes his conversion and ministry (1768)	Journal entry

Unit 2: American Revolutions

Date	Format	Topic	Read to Prepare for Class	Do to Prepare for Class
Fri., Oct. 2	Remote	The Imperial Crisis and Independence	American Yawp, ch. 5	Chapter quiz
Tue., Oct. 6	Zoom	A War for Independence	Oneida declaration of neutrality (1775) Declaration of Independence (1776) Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) Women in South Carolina experience occupation (1780) Boston King recalls fighting for the British and securing his freedom (1798) Abigail and John Adams converse on women’s rights (1776)	Newspaper exercise due; Journal entry
Fri., Oct. 9	Remote	New Politics for a New Nation	American Yawp, ch. 6 Dunbar, Never Caught, xv–xvii, 3–32	Chapter quiz
Tue., Oct. 13	Zoom	Creating a Republic	Dunbar, Never Caught, 33–74 Massachusetts Constitution (1780), excerpt U.S. Constitution (1787)	Journal entry
Fri., Oct. 16	Remote	An Empire for Liberty?	American Yawp, ch. 7 Dunbar, Never Caught, 75–98	Chapter quiz
Tue., Oct. 20	Zoom	The Meaning of Independence	Dunbar, Never Caught, 99–134 Letter of Cato and petition by “the negroes who obtained freedom by the late act,” in Postscript to the Freeman’s Journal (1781) Thomas Jefferson’s racism (1788) Black scientist Benjamin Banneker demonstrates Black intelligence to Thomas Jefferson (1791) Tecumseh calls for Native American resistance (1810)	Journal entry
Fri., Oct. 23	Remote	Revolutions: Markets, Transportation, Communication	American Yawp, ch. 8 Dunbar, Never Caught, 135–70	Chapter quiz
Tue., Oct. 27	Zoom	Uncovering Marginalized Voices	Dunbar, Never Caught, 171–97 Caroline M. Kirkland, Memoirs of Washington (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857), excerpt “From George Washington to Joseph Whipple, 28 November 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives “To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 5 April 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives Three Poems by Chet’la Sebree, Auburn Avenue (Spring/Summer 2018)	Journal entry
Fri., Oct. 30	Remote	The Age of Jackson?	American Yawp, ch. 9	Chapter quiz
Tue., Nov. 3	Zoom	Democracy for Some	Rhode Islanders protest property restrictions on voting (1834) Black Philadelphians defend their voting rights, 1838 Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (1852)	Journal entry

Unit 3: A Growing and Divided Nation

Date	Format	Topic	Read to Prepare for Class	Do to Prepare for Class
Fri., Nov. 6	Remote	Revivals and Reform	American Yawp, ch. 10	Chapter quiz
Tue., Nov. 10	Zoom	Reform Movements in the Antebellum North	Revivalist Charles G. Finney emphasizes human choice in salvation (1836) David Walker’s “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World” (1829) Angelina Grimké, Appeal to Christian Women of the South (1836) Sarah Grimké calls for women’s rights (1838)	Revolutionary era project; Journal entry
Fri., Nov. 13	Remote	Cotton and Slavery	American Yawp, ch. 11	Chapter quiz
Tue., Nov. 17	Zoom	Manifest Destiny	American Yawp, ch. 12 John L. O’Sullivan, “The Great Nation of Futurity” (1839)	Chapter quiz; Journal entry
Fri., Nov. 20	Remote	Sections Dividing	American Yawp, ch. 13	Chapter quiz
Tue., Nov. 24	Zoom	The Final Crisis	Stories from the Underground Railroad (1855-56) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Charlotte Forten complains of racism in the North (1855) Republican Party platform (1860) South Carolina Declaration of Secession (1860)	Journal entry
Fri., Nov. 27	No class meeting	Thanksgiving Recess
Tue., Dec. 1	Zoom	The Civil War	American Yawp, ch. 14 During class: William Henry Singleton, a formerly enslaved man, recalls fighting for the Union (1922) Poem about Civil War nurses (1866) Ambrose Bierce recalls his experience at the Battle of Shiloh (1881)	Chapter quiz
Fri., Dec. 4	Remote	Reconstruction in America	American Yawp, ch. 15	Chapter quiz
Tue., Dec. 8	Zoom	A New Birth of Freedom?	Reconstruction Amendments (Amendments XIII, XIV, XV) Frederick Douglass on remembering the Civil War (1877) Charlotte Forten teaches freed children in South Carolina (1864) Jourdon Anderson writes his former enslaver (1865) Mississippi Black Code (1865)	Journal entry
Fri., Dec. 11	Remote	America in 1877	Final exam review: availability on Zoom

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