American History, 1607-1877, Honors
Dr. Patrick D. Reagan

          
History 201-001 (#11182-001)                             Dr. Reagan
2-2:50 MWF                                               Fall 1998
HH 108                                                   HH109

Instructor Information

Office: Henderson Hall 109
Office Hours: 1-2 p.m. MWF and by appointment
Telephone: 372-3342 (office), 372-3332 (message), 528-3998 (home)
E-mail: preagan@tntech.edu
Professional experience of Dr. Reagan

Course Requirements

Read section below on Study Tips for History Classes first week and before examinations.

Log into your computer account in a computer lab, click on Netscape icon to get to the TTU home page of the World Wide Web. Click on Departments under Academics and Research, then click on History under College of Arts and Sciences, then click on Studying and Teaching History, then click on History 201-202. Read the information carefully, then be sure to review the materials in the Studying and Teaching History section for excellent, practical study tips. As you become more familiar with using Netscape, come back to the history web site and look around while developing Internet skills required for future employment.

  1. E-mail about yourself due by twelve noon on August 28th
  2. Attendance and active class participation including in-class presentations.
    (50 points--25 % of final course grade)
  3. Everyone will write a trial first paper on life in colonial America (due August 31). On five topics of eight available, you will write five 3-5 page, double-spaced typed papers on the following subjects:
    Essays will be worth 10 points each (50 points for 25% of final course grade)
  4. Final essay examination-- December 10
    (two essays, 50 points each for 100 points for 50% of final course grade)
  5. Final Grade based on total points earned:
    180-200 points= A
    160-179 points= B
    140-159 points= C
    120-139 points= D
    below 120 points= F
  6. To pass course, you must complete oral presentations, write the six required essays, and complete the final examination on the dates assigned. As an illegal, unacceptable, and unethical practice, plagiarism will not be tolerated.

    Disability Accommodations

    Students with a disability requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Disability Services (ODS). An Accommodation Request (AR) should be completed as soon as possible, preferably by the end of the first week of classes. The ODS is located in the Roaden University Center, Room 112, telephone 372-6119.

    Study Tips for History Classes

    Required Books

    Course Themes

    Reading Assignments with
    Lecture and Discussion Schedule

    Readings should be completed in time for class discussions.

    From Colonies to Nation, 1607-1776

    Assignment: D/W, pp. 1-15 and Text, pp. 5-64; e-mail message and begin Internet tutorial
    Internet Resources:
    European History
    Columbus and the Age of Discovery
    Native American History and Studies
    In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
    (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
    The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
    Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (PBS)
    African-American History and Studies
    Colonial Williamsburg
    Charleston Multimedia Project (Charleston County Library)
    August 17--Syllabus and course responsibilities
    August 19--Discussion: Historical Interpretation based on D/W, pp. 1-15
    August 21--Slavery and Colonial Virginia

    Assignment: Text, pp. 65-159 and D/W, pp. 19-61
    Internet Resources:
    Mayflower Web Page (C. Johnson)
    Official Tourguide and Historical Reference for Plymouth, Massachusetts
    A Midwife's Tale: Eighteenth-century America through a woman's eye (American Experience, PBS)
    Benjamin Franklin: An Extraordinary Life, An Electric Mind (PBS)
    The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Yale University Library)
    August 24--Puritan New England
    August 26--Pluralism in the Middle Colonies
    August 28--Discussion: Colonial America based on D/W, pp. 19-61

    (paper due August 31)

    Assignment: Text, Chapters 4-6 and D/W, pp. 64-111
    Internet Resources:
    Seven Years War Website (The Discriminating General)
    Patriots Day: Lights! Camera! Revolution! [battles of Lexington and Concord] (American Experience, PBS)
    Thomas Jefferson (PBS/American Experience)
    The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
    Liberty! The American Revolution (PBS)
    The American Revolution (H-Net site to accompany PBS series)
    The American Revolution HTML Project
    American Revolutionary War (Northeastern University)
    The American Revolution: The Struggle for Independence (R. Brainard)
    August 31--The Rise of the Assemblies, 1689-1763

    Creating a Republic, 1776-1815

    September 2--Origins of The American Revolution
    September 4--Discusion: the Revolution based on D/W, pp. 64-111

    (Paper due September 9)

    Assignment: Text, Chapter 7; Constitution in back of Text; begin D/W, pp. 113-168
    Internet Resources:
    Declaration of Independence Road Trip
    The Papers of James Madison (University of Virginia)
    Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (U.S. Government Printing Office)
    Constitution Day, September 17, 1787 (National Archives and Records Administration)
    The Annotated Constitution (GPO/Congressional Record Service)
    The National Constitution Center (U.S. Constitution information)
    "Special Issue on the Constitution," Common-Place: A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice, July 2002
    Words and Deeds in American History (Library of Congress)
    September 7--Labor Day holiday, no class September 9--From Confederation to Constitution, 1781-1787
    September 11--Discussion: the Constitution based on the document

    Assignment: D/W, pp. 113-168; Text, Chapters 8-9 and D/W, pp. 171-207
    Internet Resources:
    The Papers of James Madison (University of Virginia)
    Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America (New York Historical Society)
    Thomas Jefferson (PBS/American Experience)
    The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
    Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia
    Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
    The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Constitution Society)
    Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
    September 14--Discussion: the Constitution based on D/W, pp. 113-168

    (Paper due September 21)
    September 16--The First Party System
    September 18--Discussion: the first parties based on D/W, pp. 171-207
    (Paper due September 25)

    National Expansion, 1790-1840's

    Assignment: Text, pp. 396-417, 469-496
    Internet Resources:
    Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Inc.
    Lewis and Clark Bicentennial (official site)
    War of 1812 Website (MilitaryHertiage.com)
    The Oregon Trail (M. Trinklein and S. Boettcher)
    September 21--Early Economic Growth
    September 23--The Significance of the Frontier
    September 24--TTU Office of Career Services: Go and Take a Look!
    September 25--Discussion: The Human Impact of Economic Change

    Assignment: Text, pp. 445-449, 417-466 and D/W, pp. 210-244
    Internet Resources: The Cherokee Nation
    September 28--Indian Removal
    September 30--Jacksonian Society
    October 2--Discussion: Jacksonian politics based on D/W, pp. 210-244

    (Paper due October 7)

    Assignment: Text, 496-510, 550-557 and D/W, pp. 247-280
    Internet Resources:
    Views of the Famine (Emory University)
    Interpreting the Irish Famine, 1846-1850 (University of Virginia)
    The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (PBS)
    Immigration History Research Center (University of Minnesota)
    Tangled Roots: A Project Exploring the Histories of Americans of Irish Heritage and Americans of African Heritage (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Abolition, Resistance, and Slavery, Yale University)
    Women's Rights National Historical Park (Seneca Falls, NY)
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online (Rutgers University)
    The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (University of South Carolina)
    American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (American Memory, Library of Congress)
    Gender History and Studies
    Communal Studies Association
    October 5--Immigration in Antebellum America
    October 7--Women and the Family in Early America
    October 9--Discussion: Antebellum women based on D/W, pp. 247-280

    (Paper due October 14)

    Slavery, Reform and Sectionalism, 1830-1860

    Assignment: Text, pp. 602-631 and D/W, pp. 283-333

    Internet Resources:
    Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience
    in 19th Century America (University of North Carolina)
    Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (PBS)
    The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
    Museum of Slavery in the Atlantic (Penn. State University)
    In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
    (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
    Voices from the Days of Slavery (American Memory, Library of Congress)
    WPA Life Histories (Federal Writers' Project, 1936-40)
    Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
    (American Memory, Library of Congress)
    "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
    American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)
    American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography [from WPA slave narratives collected in the 1930s] (Greenwood Publishing Group)
    North American Slave Narratives (Documenting the American South)
    Tangled Roots: A Project Exploring the Histories of Americans of Irish Heritage and Americans of African Heritage (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Abolition, Resistance, and Slavery, Yale University)
    Darrell Reeck, "The Spirit of the Amistad in the United Methodist Church," (New World Outlook magazine of the United Methodist Church)
    The Amistad Case (teaching materials from the National Archives)
    La Amistad Links (New World Outlook magazine of the United Methodist Church)
    Amistad Research Center (Tulane University)
    Frederick Douglass Papers (American Memory, Library of Congress)
    Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University)
    Taking the Train to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (National Park Service)
    The Underground Railroad (National Geogaphic Online)
    October 12--The Old South
    October 14--The Institution of Slavery
    October 16--Discussion: blacks and slavery based on D/W, pp. 283-333

    (Paper due October 21)

    Assignment: Text, Chapter 13, pp. 631-640 and D/W, pp. 336-379
    Internet Resources:
    Mormon History Resource Page
    The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History
    Influence of Prominent Abolitionists (African-American Mosaic, Library of Congress)
    October 19-20--Fall break, no classes
    October 21--Antebellum Reform
    October 23--Discussion: the Abolitionists based on D/W, pp. 336-379

    (Paper due October 28)

    Assignment: Text, pp. 304-307, 408-411, 438-444 and Chapters 14 and 16
    Internet Resources:
    Texas History (Kingwood College Library)
    1846: Portrait of the Nation (National Portrait Gallery)
    Remember the Alamo (American Experience, PBS)
    The Alamo
    Texas History (Kingwood College Library)
    The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848) [site to accompany PBS documentary]
    The Mexican War (Rose-Hulman Institute)
    The History Guy: The Mexican-American War (R. Lee)
    The Mexican-American War Memorial Homepage (Universidad Nacional Aut&oacutenoma de M&eacutexico)
    Mexican War Journal
    The Mexican-American War (Hillsdale College) [primary source documents]
    Descendants of Mexican War Veterans
    America in the 1850's: An Archive of E-Texts (Assumption College)
    Getting the Message Out: National Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 (Northern Illinois University)
    October 26--Sectionalism and Slavery
    October 28--The War with Mexico
    October 30--The Collapse of the Two-Party System

    Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

    Assignment: Text, Chapter 16
    Internet Resources:
    Getting the Message Out: National Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 (Northern Illinois University)
    Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Musem, and Foundation
    Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (Rutgers University)
    Crisis at Fort Sumter (R. Latner, Tulane University)
    Charleston Multimedia Project (Charleston County Library)
    Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (Rutgers University)
    James McPherson, "For a Vast Future Also: Lincoln and the Millenium," Jefferson Lecture, March 27, 2000
    November 2--Origins of the Republican Party
    November 4--Discussion: Slavery, Politics, and Sectionalism
    November 6--Overview: Two Cultures on the Eve of War

    Assignment: Text, Chapter 17 and check Internet sites on Civil War
    Internet Resources:
    Evaluating Web Sites for Quality and Reliability
    A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW (C. Branham, St. Louis University)
    Selected Civil War Photographs (American Memory, Library of Congress)
    Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (Rutgers University)
    Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (Rutgers University)
    U.S. Civil War Center (Louisiana State U.)
    The American Civil War Homepage (Sunsite at University of Tennessee)
    Civil War @Smithsonian: Collecting, Preserving, Remembering the National Experience
    (National Portrait Gallery)
    Gardner's Sketch Book of the [Civil] War (Cornell University Library)
    The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady (Library of Congress)
    American Civil War Institute (Campbellsville University)
    Poetry and Music of the War Between the States (K. Fraser)
    The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Virginia and Pennsylvania (University of Virginia)
    National Heritage Area on the Civil War in Tennessee
    (Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University)
    Save the Franklin Battlefield, Inc.
    Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, Inc.
    Military Service Records: A Select Catalog of NARA Microfilm Publications
    (National Archives and Records Administration)
    Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (National Park Service)
    United States Colored Troops in the Civil War (B.J. McRae, Jr.)
    DoD Celebrates African American History Month (U.S. Department of Defense) In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
    (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
    History of Black Military Service
    (Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
    50th Anniversary of the Integration of the Armed Forces
    (Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
    United States Colored Troops (Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System, National Park Service)
    The Civil War Preservation Trust
    Friends of the [C.S.S.] Hunley
    Reenactor.net
    Living History Association
    National Civil War Association
    Rebels with a Cause (Southern Poverty Law Center)
    November 9--The Civil War, 1861-1865
    November 11--Film on the Civil War
    November 13--Discussion: History and Film

    Assignment: D/W, pp. 381-424 and Text, pp. 751-772
    November 16--Discussion: the Civil War based on D/W, pp. 381-424

    (Paper due November 23)
    November 18--Political Reconstruction
    November 20--Economic Reconstruction: A New South?

    Assignment: Chapter 18 and D/W, pp. 426-471
    Internet Resources:
    In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
    (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
    Freedmen and Southern Society Project (University of Maryland, College Park)
    Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (American Experience, PBS)(
    November 23--Social Reconstruction: Black Culture and Social Thought
    November 25--Discussion: Reconstruction based on D/W, pp. 426-471
    November 27--Thanksgiving holiday, no classes

    Assignment: D/W, pp. 1-15
    November 30--From Colonies to Nation, 1607-1877
    December 2--Discussion: The Significance of Historical Interpretation
    December 4--Review and Questions in Class

    Assignment: Study Thematically for Final Essay Examination
    Internet Resources:Studying and Teaching History
    December 10--Thursday, Final Examination, 1-3 p.m.

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