Dr. Kathryn H. Braund

 

 

   Office Hours: T & TH: 11:00 - 12:00

308A Thach Hall

 

 

                or by appointment

braunkh@auburn.edu

 

 

   Office Phone: (334) 844-6649

 

 

 

HIST 5000/6000

 American Colonial History

 

Thurs and Thus. 2:00 - 3:15,   Lowder 4

Fall Semester 2009

Syllabus available on-line: http://www.auburn.edu/~braunkh/hist5000.htm

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Course Goals:

 

*  To introduce students to the major themes in colonial American history.

*  To introduce students to the methodology employed by historians, including ethnohistory,   historical geography and archaeology

*  To expose students to the craft of historical research and writing by analyzing documents, images, and maps and producing book reviews and composing essays based on primary sources.

 

Student Requirements:

 

Students are expected to attend class regularly, participate in class discussion, keep up with reading material and complete assignments on time. Reading assignments should be completed before class.  It is impossible to derive full benefit from this class without regular and active reading and classroom participation.  Most of the articles listed will be available through JSTOR.  The rest will be available on e-reserve.  You should download and print them out and bring them to class.

 

Grades will be assigned on the following formula:

 

Class Requirement

Date Due 5000

Percent 5000

Date Due 6000

Percent 6000

Book Review Picks

Sept. 9

---

Sept. 9

---

Exam One

Sept. 29

25%

Sept. 29

25%

Book Review

Oct. 13

10%

Oct. 13

  5%

Exam Two

Oct. 27

20%

Oct. 27

20%

2nd Book Review

n/a

n/a

Dec. 1

  5%

Newspaper Project

Nov. 19

20%

Nov. 19

20%

Final Exam

Dec. 11

25%

Dec. 11

25%

 

90% and above = A; 80-89=B, 70-79=C, 60-69=D, below 60=F

           

Tests will be IDs, short discussion/essay.  The final will include some general questions that span the entire course, but will focus on material from the last third of the class.

 

Book Review: Each student will write a critical review of an approved book.  Graduate students are required to provide two book reviews.  The book must be approved by me.  For ideas, consult the list at the end of the syllabus.  This list is far from complete, and if you will e-mail me as to a topic that you would like to read about, I will help you find a suitable book.  The book review should be typed and be approximately four pages.  You are also required to find and turn in with your own review, two reviews of the book from major journals (Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, American Historical Review).  Ask the librarians for help if you need it.  You are required to notify me in writing as to which book/s you will be reading no later than Sept 9.  A style guide and specific instructions will be provided in class. 

 

Pennsylvania Gazette Project:  Students will analyze two months (8 consecutive issues) of the Pennsylvania Gazette (1729-1763) in a six to eight page paper. Each student may pick the time period of their choice, but no two may be the same.  A sign-up sheet will be passed around in class. In reading the newspapers,  note the lead stories, news items (foreign as well as local and colonial news) essays and advertisements.  What are the major themes?  What bias and point of view is evident in the news and general interest stories?  What can you deduce about colonial culture, customs, social habits, economic life?  What crimes are mentioned?  Games and sports?  After reading the papers, decide what the newspapers can tell us about the colonial period (or at least an English colonial town).  Papers should be typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins. You will need to do additional research on a topic or theme contained in the papers that is of interest to you to form a thesis, with a minimum of three secondary sources consulted.  Suitable themes and sources will be discussed in class.  Your paper should include citations to both secondary and primary references to the topic you choose.  Also include a bibliography.  Papers will be graded on form and well as the manner in which you approach your analysis.  The more thoughtful, informed the analysis, the better the score.  Graduate student papers should be at least twelve pages in length. Those who have not taken a historical methods class can find assistance in Mary Lynn  Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing History, 4th Edition.  This book can be obtained through any bookseller and is highly recommended to all history students.  Outstanding papers will be considered for the annual Colonial Dames Award, which is awarded in the spring.  In addition, students may wish to consult the following web site for guidance on composition and organization as well as citation matters: : http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/index.html

 

Special Accommodations

Students who need special accommodations in class, as provided for by the Americans with Disabilities Act, should make an individual appointment with me as soon as possible. 

 

Academic Honesty

The Department of History does not tolerate violations of the university's academic honesty policy and all instructors report and pursue all such cases according to the procedures outlined in the Tiger Cub. It is the responsibility of the student to know what these policies and procedures are and to know what constitutes academic dishonesty.  Your work may be checked by software designed to detect plagiarism. Link: http://media.cla.auburn.edu/history/ug/academic_honesty.cfm

 

Mid-Term

The mid-term of Fall Semester 2009 is October 7.  Mid-term is the last date students are allowed to withdraw from courses without penalty.

 

Deadlines and Absences

All work is due in class on the date listed, unless you have an excused absence.  Excused absences, as defined by the University, are illness of the student, serious illness or death of a student's immediate family member, participation in University-sponsored activities (with appropriate official notification no later than one week after the absence), religious holidays, military orders to report for duty,  subpoena for court appearances or other special circumstance.   Except for exceptional circumstances or excused absence as listed above, there is no extension on deadlines for papers and other required coursework.  In the event of an excused absence, the student should notify the instructor at the earliest opportunity, either in person, by phone, or e-mail, and arrange a time to turn the work in.  There will be no extensive extension of deadlines.  In the event your sob story is sufficient to move me into agreeing that you have an exceptional circumstance, I reserve the right to deduce at least one letter grade from the project and require substantial additional work (which will be graded as Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory).  The additional work will have to be completed to my satisfaction before I will grade the required work. 

 

E-mail

E-mail is considered an official medium for communicating with students.  All students are responsible for checking their Auburn University issued  e-mail account in a timely fashion and on a regular basis. I respond to e-mails within twenty-four hours (usually much sooner).

 

Required Texts:

 

Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World

 

Other required readings are available through AubieCat e-reserves or JSTOR.  Students who feel they need a good general text to help sort things out will find Alan Taylor's American Colonies a good general reference text.  It is available through any bookstore.

 

Direct Link to AubieCat E-Reserves: http://www.lib.auburn.edu/reserves/

Direct Link to  JSTOR:http://www.jstor.org.spot.lib.auburn.edu/

 

 

LECTURE AND READING SCHEDULE

 

Tues    8/18     Introduction 

 

Thurs   8/20     The Indians were here First

            Reading: Neal Salisbury, "The Indians Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans," William and Mary Quarterly 53(1996):435-58. JSTOR.

                        Alfred Crosby, "Ecological Imperialism" on e-reserve.

 

Tues    8/25     Lecture: European Expansion into a New World: the Creation of an Atlantic World

 

Thurs   8/27     The Atlantic World, Continued

 

Tues    9/1       Lecture: A chronological overview of settlement and development    

                        On-line Maps: Virginia   and   Puritan Migration

 

Thurs   9/3       Migration and Motives:  1635 as a case study

                        Reading: Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World, pp. 1-71.

 

Tues    9/8       Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World, pp. 72-131.                    

 

Thurs   9/10     Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World, pp. 132-216

                        Reminder: Book Review Picks

           

Tues    9/15     Color and Culture: Red Indians and the Strangers     

                        Reading: Joyce Chaplin, "Natural Philosophy and an Early Racial Idiom in North America: Comparing English and Indian Bodies," William and Mary Quarterly 54(1997):229-52 and Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "Presentment of Civility: English Response to American Self-Presentation in the Early Years of Colonization," William and Mary Quarterly 54(1997):193-228. JSTOR.

 

Thurs   9/17     Indians and English: Understanding and Trading

                        Reading: Nancy Shoemaker, "How Indians got to be Red," American Historical Review 102(1997): 265-44 and Christopher L. Miller and George R. Hamell, "A New Perspective on Indian-White Contact: Cultural Symbols and Colonial Trade," Journal of American History 73(1986):311-28. Both are available on JSTOR.

 

 

 

Tues    9/22     Race and Ethnicity: Black Africans

                        Reading:Winthrop Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812, pp. 3-43, 85-98, 216-65.  On e-reserve.

 

Thurs   9/24 The Slave Trade

                        Reading: Ira Berlin, "From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America," William and Mary Quarterly 53 (1996): 251-88. JSTOR.

 

Tues    9/29     EXAM ONE

 

Thurs   10/1     No formal class meeting.  Work on book reviews.

 

Tues    10/6     Lecture: An Overview of English Settlement, Eighteenth Century

                       

Thurs   10/8     Lecture: An Overview of New France

                       

Tues    10/13   Making Settlements: Mobile as the case study in historic archaeology, historical geography, and ethnohistory

                        Reading: Plantation Archaeology, Chapters 3 & 4      On e-reserve

                        On-line Maps: Louisiana and  Zones of Encounter

                        Web Site: Dog River/Old Mobile Web Site 

                        Reminder: Book Review Due

 

Thurs   10/15   Colonial Settlements along Mobile Bay & Material Culture of a Gulf Coast Plantation

                        Discussion and examination of artifacts continues

                        USA Dog River Project: Photos of Artifacts

                        Web Site: Artifacts of Colonial Mobile

                        Reading: Craig T. Sheldon et al, "French Habitations at the Alabama Post, ca. 1720-1763," on e-reserve.

 

Tues   10/20   Slave Communities

                      Reading: Klaus, Starika, and Taylor, eds., "Johann Martin Bolzius Answers a Questionnaire on Carolina and Georgia," William and Mary Quarterly 14(1957):232-37 and Ira Berlin, "Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America," American Historical Review, 85(1980):44-78. Both on JSTOR.

 

Thurs   10/22   No class         

 

Tues 10/27      EXAM TWO

       

Thurs   10/29   Pennsylvania Gazette Projects: You should have read your issues and started forming a thesis.  Come to class with notes and ideas (and a copy of the style guidelines posted on Blackboard.

 

Tues    11/3     Eighteenth Century Colonial Culture: Everyday Life/Consumerism

                        Reading: Bushman, "Shopping and Advertising in Colonial America," on e-reserve.

 

Thurs    11/5    Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Economy 

                        Reading: Karin Calvert, "The Function of Fashion in the Eighteenth-Century," on e-reserve and Timothy J. Shannon, "Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion," William and Mary Quarterly  53(1996):13-42 on JSTOR.

 

Tues    11/10   Franklin and Philadelphia:  A look at eighteenth-century urban life

                        Reading:  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, pp. pp.100-26. On e-reserve.

 

 

Thurs  11/12    Religion and Culture

                        Reading: Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity': George Whitefield and the Great Awakening, 1737-1745," Journal of American History 77(December 1990): 812-837. JSTOR.

               

Tues    11/17   Colonial Wars:  Imperial Rivalries

                        Reading: James Adair and the Southern Indians.  Reading on e-reserve.

                       

Thurs   11/19   Discussion of Pennsylvania Gazette Projects 

                         Reminder: Pennsylvania Gazette Projects Due

 

November 23 - 27: Thanksgiving Break

 

Tues    12/1     The Cherokee War and the Seven Years War

Reading: "The Hundred Years War" on e-reserve

                        Reminder: Second Book Review Due (6000 only)

 

Thurs   12/3: The Seven Years War

                       

 

FINAL EXAM: Friday, December 11, 4:00 – 6:30

 

BOOK REVIEW SELECTIONS

 

Studies of Various Colonies/Regions

Balmer, Randall H. A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies (1989)

Billings, Warren M., Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia (2004)

Cashin, Edward J. Governor Henry Ellis and the Transformation of British North America (1994)

Chaplin, Joyce E. An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993)

Cressy, David, Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century (1987)

Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983)

Davis, Harold E. The Fledgling Province: Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia, 1733-1776 (1976)

Demos, John Putnam, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (1982)

Dunn, Richard S. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (1972)

Ekirch, A. Roger. "Poor Carolina": Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1762 (1981)

Horn, James, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (1994)

Horn, James. A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America

Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982)

Krugler, John D. English and Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century (2004)

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. Providence Island 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony.

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony (1984)

Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2002)

Oatis, Steven J., A Colonial Complex: South Carolina's Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730 (2004)

Price, David A. Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation (2003)

Rink, Oliver A. Holland on the Hudson: An Economic and Social History of Dutch New York (1986)

Rountree,Helen. Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown

Salinger, Sharon V. "To Serve Well and Faithfully": Labor and Indentured Servitude in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (1987)

Shannon, Timothy J. Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (2000)

Sheridan, Richard B. Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775 (1994)

Shorto, Russell, The Island at the Center of the World (2004)

Taylor, Alan. American Colonies (2001)

Zuckerman, Michael. Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Towns in the Eighteenth Century (1970)

 

 

 

Women

Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996)

Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (1987)

Reis, Elizabeth. Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (1997)

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives : Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New  England, 1650-1750

 

Economic

McCusker, John J. and Russell R. Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 (1985)

Steele. Ian K., English Atlantic, 1675-1740 : An Exploration of Communication and Community (1986)

 

Slavery

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998)

Carretta, Vincent, Equiano: The African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (2005)

Morgan, Philip D.  Slave Counterpoint  Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

Olwell, Robert. Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790 (1998)

Smith, Mark M., ed., Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt

Wood, Betty. Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730-1775 (1984)

Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion (1974)

 

Culture

Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society and Politics in Colonial America (1986)

Brands, H. W. The First America: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2000)

 Conroy, David W.  In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial  Massachusetts (1995)

Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989)

Goodfriend, Joyce D. Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730 (1992)

Hoffer, Peter C. The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1995)

Hoffer, Peter C. Sensory Worlds in Early America (2003)

Kerrison, Catherine, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual life in the Early American South

Lambert, Frank. Pedlar in Divinity: George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-1770 (1994)

Monaghan, E. Jennifer.  Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. (2005)

Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2002)

Rath, Richard C. How Early America Sounded (2003)

 

Indians

Axtell, James. Native and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America.

Braund, Kathryn H. Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815

Cashin, Edward J. Lachlin McGillivray, Indian Trade

Cave, Alfred A., The Pequot War (1996)

Corkran, David H. The Cherokee Frontier: Conflict and Survival, 1740-62

Corkran, David H. The Creek Frontier, 1540-1783

Crane, Verner W. The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732 (A classic!)

Fabel,  Robin F. A. Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and the Caribs, 1759-1775

Gallay, Alan. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 (20002)

Galloway,  Patricia, Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 

Hatley,  M. Thomas . The Dividing Path: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution

Hudson,  Charles. Kings of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms 

Hudson, Charles  and Carmen Chaves Tesser, The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, Indians and English: Facing off in Early America (2000)

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, Settling with the Indians: The Meeting of English and Indian Cultures in America, 1580-1640 (1980)

Merrell, James H. Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (1999)

Merrell, James H. The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal

Perdue,  Theda . Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866

Perdue,  Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-7183

Reid, John Phillip A Better Kind of Hatchet: Law, Trade and Diplomacy in the Cherokee Nation during the Early Years of European Contact

Richter, Daniel. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (2001)

Rountree, Helen C. Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries

White, Richard, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991)

 

 

Military/Political History

Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (2000)

Calloway, Colin, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (2006)

Gipson, Lawrence Henry,  Zones of International Friction: North America, South of the Great Lakes Region, 1748-1754, vol. 4 of The British Empire Before the American Revolution

Leach, Douglas. Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip's War (1958)

Leach, Douglas, Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763

Lepore, Jill, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of America  Identity (1998)

Ward, Matthew C., Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765