Seminar: American Colonial History



HISTORY 5010


AMERICAN COLONIAL HISTORY


SPRING 1999 - DR. SCHMITT


OBJECTIVES

1. Sample a variety of topics in the history of the American colonies.
2. Closely examine some particular aspects of American colonial history.
3. Conduct an individual research project in American colonial history.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
1. Class Participation (15%)

Each week there will be a general discussion of the topic listed for the week. Each class member will be expected to participate.

2. Article Reviews (15%)


A written review will be due each day a topic is listed. It must follow the specific form outlined. You may substitute articles with similar approaches.

3. Book Reviews (15%)

Two book reviews of 4-5 typed pages will be due during the semester. Spelling and grammar should be perfect. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. The due dates and specific requirements will be announced in class.

4. Examinations (15%)

March 3 and May 5 have been reserved for examinations

5. Research Project (40%)

An individual project equivalent to a 20 page research paper will be due by May 1. Topics must be approved in advance by the instructor. The SCHEDULE:

January 27 - Present topic to class; outline your approach

February 24 - Preliminary bibliographies due; give brief update of research to class

April 21 & 28 - Give formal presentation to class

April 30 - Final written copy due to instructor

HISTORY 5010

AMERICAN COLONIAL HISTORY SPRING 1999

1. Introduction and Resources for Research (January 11)

2. Natives and the Encounter (January 18)

James Axtell, "Columbian Encounters: Beyond 1992," WMQ 49(1992): 335-360.

John D. Daniels, "The Indian Population of North America in 1492," WMQ 49(1992): 298-320.

James Merrell, " Some Thoughts on Colonial Historians and American Indians," WMQ 46(1989): 94-119.

William Hamlin, " Imagined Apotheoses: Drake, Harriot, and Ralegh in the Americas," Journal of the History of Ideas 57(1996): 405-428.,br>
James Merrell, " The Indians' New World: The Catawba Experience," WMQ 41(1984): 537-565.

3. Frontier Communities (January 25)

Irma Wawrzyczek, "The Women of Accomack versus Henry Smith: Gender, Legal Recourse, and the Social Order in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," VMHB 105(1997): 5-26.

Alan Watson, "Women in Colonial North Carolina: Overlooked and Underestimated," NCHR 58(1981): 1-22.

John Faragher, "Old Women and Old Men in Seventeenth Century Wethersfield, Conn.," Women's Studies 4(1976), 11-31.

Virginia Bernhard, "'Men, Women, and Children' at Jamestown: Population and Gender in Early Virginia, 1607-1610," JSH 58(1992): 599-618.

4. Frontier Communities (February 3)

Cornelia Dayton, "Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village," WMQ 49(1991): 19-49.

Lilian Handlin, "Dissent in a Small Community," NEQ 58(1985): 193-220.

David Ransome, " Wives for Virginia, 1621," WMQ 48(1991): 3-18.

Mary Beth Norton, " Gender and Defamation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," WMQ 44(1987): 3-39.

Elizabeth Reis, "The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England," JAH 82(1995): 15-36.

5. Slavery (February 10)

Alden Vaughan, "The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth- Century Virginia," VMHB 97(1989): 311-354.

Warren Billings, " The Law of Servants and Slaves in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," VMHB 99(1991): 45-62.

Joan Gunderson, " The Double Bonds of Race and Sex: Black and White Women in a Colonial Virginia Parish," JSH 52(1986): 351-372.

Woody Holton, "'Rebel against Rebel': Enslaved Virginians and the Coming of the American Revolution," VMHB 105(1997): 157-192.

Russell Menard, "Slave Demography in the Lowcountry, 1670-1740: From Frontier Society to Plantation Regime," SCHistMag 96(1995): 280-303.

6. Individual Reports, Bibliographies Due (February 17)

7. Intellectual and Cultural History (February 24)

Jack Greene, "Interpretive Frameworks: The Quest for Intellectual Order in Early American History," WMQ 48(1990): 515-530.

David Lovejoy, " Roger Williams and George Fox: The Arrogance of Self- Righteousness," NEQ 66(1993): 199-225.

Rosa Lockwood, "The Scientific Revolution in Seventeenth-Century New England," NEQ 52(1980): 76-95.

Alison Olson, "Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and the Question of Religious Diversity in Colonial New England," NEQ 65(1992): 93-116.

Carla Pestana, "The Quaker Executions as Myth and History," JAH 80(1993): 441-469.

Michael Zuckerman, "Tocqueville, Turner, and Turds: Four Stories of Manners in Early America," JAH 85(1998): 13-42.

8. MIDTERM EXAM (March 3)

9. Wars and Violence (March 10)

Wilcomb Washburn, "Stephen Saunders Webb's Interpretation of Bacon's Rebellion," VMHB 95(1987): 339-352.

E. Wayne Carp, " Early American Military History: A Review of Recent Work," VMHB 94(1986): 259-284.

Steven Katz, "The Pequot War Reconsidered," NEQ 64(1991): 206-224.

Steve Brumwell, "'A Service Truly Critical': The British Army and Warfare with the North American Indians, 1755-1764," War in History 5(1998): 146-175.

J. Frederick Fausz, "An 'Abundance of Blood Shed on Both Sides': England's First Indian War, 1609-1614," VWHB 98(1990): 9-16.

10. Spring Break - No Class (March 17)

11. The End of the Seventeenth Century (March 24)

Bernard Rosenthal, "Tituba's Story," NEQ 71(1998): 190-203.

Ann Kibbey, "Mutations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft, Remarkable Providences, and the Power of Puritan Men," AQ 34(1982): 125-148.

David Hall, "Witchraft and the Limits of Interpretation," NEQ 58(1985): 253-281.

Philip Ranlet, "Another Look at the Causes of King Philip's War," NEQ 61(1988):
79-100.
12. The Negelected Era (March 31)

Richard Warch, " The Shepherd's Tent: Education and Enthusiasm in the Great Awakening," AQ 30(1978): 177-198.

James Cooper, Jr., "Enthusiasts or Democrats? Separatism, Church Government, and the Great Awakening in Massachusetts," NEQ 65(1992): 265-283.

Elizabeth Dunn, "'Grasping at the Shadow': The Massachusetts Currency Debate, 1690-1751," NEQ 71(1998): 54-76.

Rodger Payne, "New Light in Hanover County: Evangelical Dissent in Piedmont Virginia, 1740-1755," JSH 61(1995): 665-694.

Christine Daniels, "Gresham's Laws: Labor Management on an Early-Eighteenth- Century Chesapeake Plantation," JSH 62(1996): 205-238.


13. Appalachian Frontiers (April 7)

Gregrory Nobles, " Breaking into the Backcountry: New Approaches to the Early American Frontier, 1750-1800," WMQ 46(1989): 641-670.

Albert Tillson, "The Southern Backcountry: A Survey of Current Research," VMHB 98(1990): 387-422.

Martin Crawford, "Mountain Farmers and the Market Economy," NCHR 71(1994): 430-450.

Ned Irwin, "The Lost Papers of the 'Lost State of Franklin,'" Journal of East Tennessee History 69(1997): 84-96.

Darlene Wilson, "Multicultural Mayhem and Murder in Virginia's Backcountry: The Case of Pierre-Francois Tubeuf, 1792 to 1795," Journal of Appalachian
Studies 4(1998): 57-86.

Peter Kastor, "'Equitable Rights and Privileges': The Divided Loyalties in Washington County, Virginia, during the Franklin Separatist Crisis," VMHB 105(1997): Monday, 12/7/98 193-226.


14. The British Empire and the Revolution (April 14)

15. Presentation of Papers (April 21)

16. Presentation of Papers (April 28)

17. FINAL EXAM (May 5)

SAMPLING OF JOURNAL

AMERICAN COLONIAL HISTORY


GENERAL
REGIONAL
TOPICAL

Selected Readings
Berkin, Carol. First Generations: Women in Colonial America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.

Breslaw, Elaine. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. New York: NYU Press, 1996.

Clinton, Catherine and Michele Gillespie, eds. The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.

Demos, John. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Demos, John. Entertaining Satan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Erikson, Kai. Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance. New York: John Wiley, 1966.

Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Fischer, David Hackett, Albion's Seed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1975.

Karlsen, Carol. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987.

McManus, Edgar J. Law and Liberty in Early New England: Criminal Justice and Due Process, 1620-1692. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.

Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975.

Moseley, James. John Winthrop's World: History as a Story; the Story as History. Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

Richter, Daniel. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1992.

Rountree, Helen. The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

Rutman, Darrett and Anita Rutman. A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650-1750. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.

Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

Thompson, Roger. Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.

Ulrich, Laurel. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. New York: Knopf, 1982.


OLD STANDARDS Bailyn, Bernard. The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955.

Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The Colonial Experience. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.

Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in the Wilderness: Urban Life in America 1625-1742. New York: The Ronald Press, 1938.

Brinton, Crane. The Anatomy of Revolution. New York: Random House, 1952.

Demos, John. A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Jordan, Winthrop. White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1968.

Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province. Boston: Beacon Press, 1953.

Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth- Century New England. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, 500-1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Washburn, Wilcomb. The Governor and the Rebel. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1957.

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