National Humanities Center
____ALL SUGGESTED TEXTS____
PREDICAMENTS OF EARLY REPUBLICAN LIFE pages* ____ 1 Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 1771-1788, first two thirds 54 ____ 2 Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, 1798 15 ____ 3 Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” from The Sketch Book, 1819-1820 12 ____ 4 Royall Tyler, The Contrast, 1787 67 ____ 5 Benjamin Rush, “Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic,” 1786 7 ____ 6 Noah Webster, “An Oration on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,” 1802 18 ______PREDICAMENTS: Total Pages 173
RELIGION ____ 1 Online Exhibition: Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Sections VI and VII online ____ 2 Jefferson, Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia, 1779 7 Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance to the General Assembly of . . . Virginia, 1785 ____ 3 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Correspondence, 1812-1823, excerpts of ten letters 6 ____ 4 Constitution of the American Bible Society, 1816, excerpts 2 ____ 5 Forks of Elkhorn Baptist Church, Kentucky; Minutes, 1801-1817, excerpts 4 ____ 6 Peter Cartwright, Autobiography: The Backwoods Preacher, 1856, excerpts 13 ____ 7 Richard Allen, The Life, Experience . . . of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen, 1833, excerpts 13 ____ 8 Background. TeacherServe: three online essays in Divining America: -- “Evangelicalism, Revivalism, and the Second Great Awakening” “Evangelicalism as a Social Movement” “African American Religion in the 19th Century” ______RELIGION: Total Pages 45
POLITICS ____ 1 The Anti-Federalist Papers, #1, 1787 10 The Federalist Papers, #51, 1788 ____ 2 Jefferson, “Manufactures,” in Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787 6 Hamilton, Report to Congress on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791, excerpts ____ 3 Washington, Farewell Address, 1796 8 ____ 4 Virginia Resolutions of 1798 5 Counter-Resolution of Massachusetts, 1799 ____ 5 Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801 4 Jefferson, Letter to John Holmes, 1820 ____ 6 Forging a National Identity: Six Patriotic Pieces 7 ____ 7 Foreign Affairs: Five Cartoons 8 ______POLITICS: Total Pages 48
EXPANSION ____ 1 Northwest Ordinance, 1787 6 ____ 2 Harriet Noble, on emigrating from New York to Michigan in 1824, 1856, excerpt 14 Gideon Lincecum, on settling throughout the South, Autobiography, 1904, excerpts ____ 3 Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VI, 1787, excerpt 6 ____ 4 Hugh Henry Brackenridge, “The Trial of Mamachtaga,” in Incidents of the Insurrection, 1785 8 ____ 5 Seneca Chief Cornplanter, Speech before President Washington, 1790 4 George Washington, Response to Seneca Indians, 1790 ____ 6 Messages between the Western Indian Confederacy and U.S. Commissioners on the issue of the 4 Ohio River as the boundary of Indian lands, August 1793 ____ 7 Elias Boudinot, “An Address to the Whites,” 26 May 1826 7 ____ 8 Lewis Cass, “Removal of the Indians,” North American Review, January 1830, excerpts 8 ____ 9 Background. TeacherServe: two online essays: -- “The Effects of Removal on American Indian Tribes” in Nature Transformed “Native American Religion in Early America” in Divining America ______EXPANSION: Total Pages 57
EQUALITY ____ 1 The Founding Fathers on Equality 12 George Washington to/from the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, 1790 James Wilson, Of Man, as a Member of Society, 1791 Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 28 Oct. 1813 James Madison, Note to His Speech on the Right of Suffrage, 1821 ____ 2 The Founding Fathers on Slavery 6 Benjamin Franklin, An Address to the Public, 1789 George Washington, Last Will & Testament, Item #2, 1799 John Adams to George Churchman and Jacob Lindley, 1801 Thomas Jefferson to Henri Grégoire, 1809 ____ 3 African Americans on Equality 6 Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, correspondence of August 1791 Memorial of [Free-Men of Colour] to the South Carolina Senate, 1791 ____ 4 Women’s Role in the Republic 10 Abigail Adams, corresp. to/from John Adams & John Quincy Adams, 1776, 1780, 1783 Samuel K. Jennings, The Married Lady’s Companion, 1808, excerpt ____ 5 Women on Equality 9 Poem, “Let Democrats . . . ,” Newark Centinel of Freedom, 1797 “A Lady,” The Female Advocate, 1801, excerpts Abigail Adams to Judge F. A. Venderkemp, 3 Feb. 1814
____ 6 Summing Up: Frances Wright, Views of Society and Manners in America, 1821, excerpts 7
EQUALITY: Total Pages 50
______SEMINAR TOTAL 373
*Note: − Page totals given here are the total printout pages of the texts (minus lengthy intro material, in some cases, and excluding the online exhibition in Religion). − Factors such as margin width, line spacing, and point size vary widely among the websites.