Dr. Paul Rich: Silabus RI 355



  

Syllabus: RI 355 - UNITED STATES: STATE AND SOCIETY -- Beginnings to Reconstruction

SPRING TERM, 1999.

DR. PAUL RICH

TEACHING ASSISTANT: YASED RAMIREZ

Tues. 6:30 pm.


This syllabus is a contract between Dr. Rich and you as a student. You agree that all work you do will be your own, that you will not plagarize. You further agree that you will keep up with the readings so the class meeting will be discussions and not just repetition of material covered in the readings. Evaluation: There will be two in-term tests for 1 point each and an end of term test for 3 points, and an end of term paper for 5 points. Any doubts about evaluation will be resolved by reference to the term paper. The three tests may be take-home or in-class, as Dr.Rich announces. You must present your term paper topic for approval at the third class. Dr. Rich is freely available to students. He enjoys contact with students, does not bite, and would like to hav e you drop in on him for a talk about the course, your graduate plans, or anything else. You may visit his office without having an appointment. The teaching assistant is also available to answer questions. Think seriously about developing one of your papers for Dr. Rich into a thesis topic or conference paper. US 335 — I covers the United States in the period from pre-colonial to the end of Reconstruction (c.1880). Papers must fall in that time zone. NB that a separate list of lectures is in an adjunct handout. Books, articles, disks, videos are on library reserve. Tell course assistant if you have any troubles in accessing materials. There are many attractive web sites that will add to your research papers and general appreciation of this period. Some choice sites will be discussed in class.

I. Introduction to American Studies. Social Science Sees North America.

Over America. Video.

Mark C. Carnes and John A. Garraty, Mapping America´s Past, Henry Holt, 1996, 5-29, 30-59, 60-99, 100-142.

Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, McGraw Hill, New York 1993. Chapter One: "The Meeting of Cultures", 1-24. To facilitate use of Brinkley, Dr. Rich has placed the chapters in individual envelopes so you can ask for a specific chapter. There are also reserve copies of the entire book.

Frances R. Aparicio, "On Multiculturalism and Privilege: A Latina Perspective", American Quarterly, Vol.46 No.4, December 1994, 575-589.

Maurice Rickards, Collecting Printed Ephemera, Phaidon, Oxford, 1988, 13-37.

  1. Pre Colonial and "Discovered America". Cave Men & English women.

    2. Eviatar Zerubavel, Terra Cognita: The Mental Discovery of America, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick (New Jersey), 1992, 1-35.

    P.E.H. Hair, Adam Jones and Robin Law, Barbot on Guinea: The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa, 1678-1712, The Hakluyt Society, London, 1992,548-553, 778-783.

    Enrique Dussel, The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of "the Other" and the Myth of Modernity, Continuum, New York, 1995, 27-48.

    The Ancestors. Video.

    Brian Swann, Native American Songs and Poems, Dover, 1996.

    Charlesfort, South Carolina. Folder on library reserve.

  2. Colonial America and the American Revolution World Upside Down
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    Brinkley, Chapter Two: "The English Transplantations". Chapter Three: "Life in Provincial America". Chapter Four: "The Empire Under Strain". Chapter Five: "The American Revolution. 25-146. Remember you can ask library reserve for individual chapters. Alternatively there are copies of the entire book..

    John M. Murrin, Beneficiaries of Catatrophe; The English Colonies in America, American Historical Association, 1990.

    Invasion of the Coast. Over New England. Old Sturbridge Village. Colonial Williamsburg. Cauldron of War. The Madness of King George. War of Independence. Videos.

     

  3. The Constitution and Creating America. Inherent Natural Rights.

    4. Brinkley, Chapter Six: "The Constitution and the New Republic". 147-170.

    The Building of the Capitol. First Ladies. The Congress. Videos.

    Declaration of Independence. Constitution of the United States. Available at many web sites.

    Daniel J. Boorstin, The Exploring Spirit: America and the World Experience, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1976. Remember, when no page numbers are listed, as in this case, the article or book, as with this one, is to be read in its entirety.

     

  4. The Jeffersonian Era. The Democrats Emerge.
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    Brinkley, Chaper Seven: "The Jeffersonian Era". Chapter Eight: "War and Expansion". Chapter Nine; "A Resurgence of Nationalism". 171-243

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    Old Ironsides. Mississippi. Lewis & Clark. War of 1812. Thomas Jefferson. (Two videos.) Videos.

  5. The Jacksonians. Annexation of Texas Divine Destiny?.
    6.

    Brinkley, Chapter Ten: "Jacksonian America". Chapter Eleven: "The North and the South". Chapter Twelve: "An Age of Reforms". 242-324.

    Michael A. Morrison, "Martin Van Buren, the Democracy, and the Partisan Politics of Texas Annexation", The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXI No.4, November 1995, 695-724.

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol 1, The New York Times, New York, 1969, (reprint of 1881 Fowler & Wells edition), 63-87.

    Andrew J. King, "Constructing Gender; Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century America", Law and History Review, Vol.13 No.1, Spring 1995, 63-110.

    Paul Rich and Guillermo De Los Reyes, "California Freemasonry: Early Masonic Lodges of California", Popular Culture Review, Vol.VII No.1, 17-28.

  6. Leading to and Enduring the Civil War. Bloody Kansas!
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    Roots of Resistance: the Underground Railroad. The Civil War. Videos.

    Brinkley, Chapter Thirteen: "The Impending Crisis". Chapter Fourteen, "The Civil War". 325-401.

    Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden, Harper´s Pictorial History of the Civil War, Gramercy, New York, 1996 (c.1919), 122-132, 29-208, 654-669, 781-788.

    Seymour Martin Lipset, Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, rev.ed., Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1988, 372-386 ("The Emergence of the One-party South — The Election of 1860").

    T.L. Frantzmann, "Civilized Tribes and Savagery", The Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol.LXXVI No.2, Summer 1998, 140-159.

    Alan Wellikoff, Civil War Supply Catalogue, Crown, New York, 1996.

     

  7. Reconstruction.

Brinkley. Chapter Fifteen: "Reconstructing the Nation". 402-430.

 

[Dr. Rich received his AB and EDM from Harvard cum laude and PhD from the University of Western Australia, where later he was research professor and member of the governing board. In 1981-1991 he was head of supervisory programs for the Ministry of Education and Culture in the Arab shakihdom of Qastar and an adviser to the Crown Prince. In addition to being titular professor at UDLA and member of the Mexican National System of Researchers, he is a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His books include Chains of Empire, a study of British imperialism, and Invasions of the Gulf, a definitive account of colonialism in the Persian Gulf. His current research includes secret societies in Mexico, particularly the Freemasons.]

  
 

Last updated 02 Feb 1999 by Christian Steimel.