History

History 2123 [233] American Society in the New Nation, 1763-1840

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• Week 1
  • Introduction
• Week 2
  • Regional Variations: Economic and Social Structure of Eighteenth-Century American Society
  • Discussion:  Provincial Mentality in the Eighteenth Century
• Week 3
  • Unrest: Imperial Decisions and Colonial Reactions
  • “Origins” of the American Revolution
• Week 4
  • Discussion: Rebellion—Revolution
  • Gun Culture, Historical Methods, and Academic Honesty/Dishonesty
• Week 5
  • Framing the New Republic: Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and the Constitution
  • Jeffersonian America:  Toward a “Republican” Vision
• Week 6
  • Discussion: The Revolutionary Generation
  • American Society in Transition: Changing Systems of Hierarchy and Association
• Week 7
  • Fall break
  • TBD
• Week 8
  • The War of 1812 and the Era of Good Feelings: American Identity, Economic Nationalism, Regional Economic Specialization
  • The Northeast: Changing Spatial Relationships and the Rise of the City
• Week 9
  • The Rise of the Urban, White, Native-born “Middle Class” Family
  • Republican Religion: The Evangelical Age and the Second Great Awakening
• Week 10
  • Discussion:  Native American Religion and Culture in the New Republic
  • Industrialization and the Industrial Community
• Week 11
  • The Opening of the Trans-Appalachian West
  • TBD
• Week 12
  • Southern Economy and the Plantation System
  • Discussion: Slave Communities and African-American Culture
• Week 13
  • The Reform Impulse:  Old Ideals and New Realities
  • Thanksgiving break
• Week 14
  • The Perfectionist Impulse in Antebellum Reform:  Utopian Alternatives
  • Discussion:  Inheriting the Revolution
• Week 15
  • The Jacksonian Persuasion:  Abolitionism, Feminism, and Jacksonian Politics as Responses to American Society
  • Jacksonian “Democracy”:  Toward Mid-Nineteenth-Century America