Professor Thomas J. Humphrey
Email tom.humphrey@csuohio.edu
Phone: 216.523-7183
Office hours: MWF 11:00 to noon, and by appointment

Syllabus:

Weekly Schedule:

Week One: Indians and Colonists

30 August: Introduction
1 September: European Society and Colonization
3 September: The Chesapeake Bay Colony

Week Two: Colonization and Conquest

8 September: Religious Dissenters
10 September: Discussion of Black Robe.

Week Three: The Coalescence of the Colonies

13 September: The Motley Middle Colonies
15 September: War, Religion, and Slavery
17 September: No Class!

Week Four: The American Revolution

20 September: Origins of the American Revolution
22 September: Warfare, Tories, and Revolutionaries--Black Robe Papers Due Today
24 September: Discussion of the meanings of independence.

Week Five: The Other Revolution

27 September: Slavery and the American Revolution
29 September: Women and the American Revolution
1 October: Discussion of the Limits of Liberty.

Week Six: Founding a New Nation

4 October: The Federal Constitution
6 October: Politics and Parades in the New Nation
8 October: Discussion of Ratification and who votes in the New Nation.

Week Seven: Secruing a Republic

13 October: The Meaning of Liberty: The Haitian Revolution
15 October: Discussion of Political Liberty

Week Eight: Markets and Capitalism

18 October: Free Labor in the North
20 October: Working Women
22 October: Discussion of the Economic Limits of Capitalism

Week Nine: Democracy in America

25 October: Demoracts and Whits: Political Parties
27 October: Manifest Destiny
29 October: Discussion of Our Nig.

Week Ten: Slavery and Capitalism

1 November: Slave Labor in the South
3 November: Free Soilers and the Compromise of 1850
5 November: Discussion of the Relationship between slavery and capitalism: Our Nig Paper Due.

Week Eleven: Reforms and Utopias

8 November: Reforms and American Society
10 November: Abolitionism and Feminism
12 November: Discussion of Reform Movements

Week Twelve: Uncle Tom's Cabin

15 November: Political Instability, Lincoln, and the Republicans
17 November: Discussion of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
19 November: Discussion of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Week Thirteen: The Civil War

22 November: The Civil War, Part 1.
24 November: The Civil War, Part 2. Uncle Tom's Cabin Papers Due.

Week Fourteen: Reconstruction.

29 November: Radical Reconstruction
1 December: Conservative Reconstruction and the Rise of Capitalism
3 December: Discussion of the Second American Revolution

Week Fifteen: The Rise of Jim Crow and the Legacy of Racism

6 December: The end of Reconstruction and the Legacy of Racism
8 December: Capitalism and the New United States
11 December: Discussion of Final Papers.