Class Schedule
Week 1 (January 22-26)
Tuesday,
January 22
Topics of Discussion:
What This Class is
About
The Political Foundations
of the United States
Readings:
James M. McPherson,
"If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862"
The
Declaration of Independence (1776)
The
Constitution of the United States of America (1787)
The
Bill of Rights (1791)
Thursday, January 24
Topics of Discussion:
A Sketch of Sectionalism
from the Constitutional Convention to the Missouri Compromise
Northern Modernization
and Sectionalism
Readings:
William Freehling,
"The Founding Fathers and Slavery"
Thomas
Jefferson's "Firebell in the Night" Letter (1820)
Edward Pressen, "How
Different from Each Other Were the Antebellum North and South?"
James M. McPherson,
"Southern Exceptionalism: A New Look at an Old Question"
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 5-26
Food
for Thought for Week 1
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by Hugh Dubrulle, 2002
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