DOCSLIB.ORG

Literature of American History I to 1865

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Literature of American History I to 1865 Hist. 80010 Literature of American History l GC: R, 2:00-4:00 p.m., 5 credits Prof. David Waldstreicher Office Hrs: Thursdays 1-2pm, 4-5pm, Room 5114.09 ext. 8450 This course introduces Ph.D. students to the historiography of the U.S. through the Civil War and is intended to prepare students for the First Written Examination. One of our primary concerns will be periodization. To what extent should the colonial period be considered a prologue to U.S. history? And on the other side of the nationhood divide, are there analyses that suggest a coherence or continuity to U.S. history beyond the peculiarities of the early republic or Civil War periods? What is the status of the Revolution and the Civil War, and the political history that drives or used to drive the narrative of U.S. history, amid transformations that might otherwise be seen as social, cultural, economic? Are there explanations that that cut across centuries, or stories that hold up in our time? What are the most important achievements of recent US historians, and what are the trends in the field now? The books and articles we shall discuss include prizewinning narratives, monographs born as dissertations, and historiographical essays. An important part of what we will be doing is attempting to read these in light of each other. Be forewarned: the reading is extensive, in recognition of the five credits this course carries and its status as required preparation for qualifying examinations. My goal is to prepare you for the exam, of course, but also to prepare you to teach this period at the college level and to lay a substantial foundation for future research and teaching in any period of U.S. history. Instead of a seminar paper or historiographical essay, your written work for the course will consist of weekly short (2-3 page) responses to the readings. Each week I will provide prompting questions that will help us work toward the kinds of writing and analysis the faculty will expect for the examination in December. These short essays, while relatively informal, will be due Thursday mornings at 10am, will be shared with the seminar, and may serve as jumping off points for our Thursday discussions. Aug. 28 Introduction 9/4 American History in 1948, 1998 and beyond: Origins, Celebration, Criticism, and the Big Story Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition and the Men who Made It (1948), introduction and ch. 1-5 (pp. v-163) Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom (1998), Introduction and Chapters 1-5 (pp. xiii-113). Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace, “Introduction,” Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1999), xi-xxiv. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Prologue” and Introduction,” The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (2001), 3-40 Fred Anderson and Andrew R. L. Cayton, “Introduction: A View In Winter,” The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 (2005), ix-xxiv. Thomas Bender, “Introduction,” A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (2006), 3-14. Jill Lepore, “Introduction,” The Story of America: Essays on Origins (2012) 1-14 9/11 Revisions, I: America’s Virginian (and Atlantic, and European, and Enslaved) Origins Staughton Lynd, “On Turner, Beard and Slavery,” Journal of Negro History 48 (Oct. 1963), 235-50. David Brion Davis, “The Historical Problem: Slavery and the Meaning of America,” ch. 1 of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1967), 3-28 Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975) Nathan Irvin Huggins, “The Deforming Mirror of Truth” (1990) in his Revelations: American History, American Myths (1995), 252-83. Barbara Fields, “Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America” in New Left Review 181 (May-June, 1990), 95-118 or in B. Fields and Karen Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (2012), 111-48 Alden T. Vaughan, “The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia,” Roots of American Racism (1995), 136-75. Thomas Bender, “The Ocean World and the Beginnings of American History,” A Nation Among Nations, ch. 1, pp. 3-60 9/18 War, Land, Ideas, and Empires J. H. Elliott, “Britain and Spain in America: Colonists and Colonized” (1994) in Elliott, Spain, Europe, and the Wider World, 1500-1800 (2009), 149-72. Andrew R. L. Cayton and Fred Anderson, “Champlain’s Dream” and “Penn’s Bargain,” The Dominion of War, ch. 1-2, pp. 1-103. Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (2004) Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 (2006) Eliga H. Gould, "Entangled Histories, Entangled Worlds: The English-Speaking Atlantic as a Spanish Periphery," American Historical Review 112 (June 2007), 764-86; Jorge Canizares- Esguerra, "Entangled Histories: Borderlands Historiographies in New Clothes?," Ibid. 787-99 and responses in AHR, Dec. 2007. [9/25 no class – Rosh Hashanah] 10/2 Colonization on the Ground in New England: Still the Exception or Still the Rule? Perry Miller, “Errand into the Wilderness,” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 10 (Jan. 1953), 3-19. Kenneth Lockridge, “Land, Population, and the Evolution of New England Society, 1630-1790,” Past and Present 39 (1968), 62-80 Ulrich, The Age of Homepsun, chapters 1-3 (pp. 41-141) David D. Hall, A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England (2011) Barry Levy, Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from its Founding to the Revolution (2009) Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Subjects Unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England (2005) 10/9 Zooming In on Colonial Development: Commerce and People in New York Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, ch. 1-12 (pp. 3-190) Simon Middleton, From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City (2006) Serena Zabin, Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York (2009) 10/16 Zooming Out: From Revision to Synthesis Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, ch. 1-12 (pp. 3-190) Daniel Richter, Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts 10/23 The American Revolution: liberation from what and for whom ? (inspiration from where?) Edmund S. Morgan, “The American Revolution: Revisions In Need of Revising” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Ser. 14 (Jan. 1957), 3-15 Bernard Bailyn, “The Central Themes of the American Revolution” in Stephen Kurtz and James Hutson eds., Essays on the American Revolution (1973), 3-31. Barbara Clark Smith, The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America (2010) Ulrich, The Age of Homespun, chapters 4-6 (pp. 142-247) Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, ch. 13-19 (pp. 191-298) Cayton and Anderson, “Washington’s Apprenticeship” and “Washington’s Mission,” The Dominion of War, ch 3-4 (pp. 104-206) T. Bender, “The ‘Great War’ and the American Revolution,” A Nation Among Nations, ch. 2 (pp. 61-115). William W. Freehling, “The Founding Fathers, Conditional Antislavery, and the Nonradicalism of the American Revolution,” The Reintegration of American History (1994), 12-33. Staughton Lynd and David Waldstreicher, “Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery: Toward An Economic Interpretation of American Independence,” William and Mary Quarterly,3rd Ser. 68 (Oct. 2011), 597-630, and responses, 631-56. 10/30 The Early Republic and the Public: Democracy, Nationalism, Postcolonialism, Empire? Sean Wilentz , The Rise of American Democracy, Part I (pp. xi-178) Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, ch. 20-26 (299-408) Andrew W. Robertson, “’Look on This Picture. And on This!’: Nationalism, Localism, and Partisan Images of Otherness in the United States, 1787-1820,” American Historical Review 106 (Oct. 2001): 1263-80. Jeffrey L. Pasley, “The Cheese and the Words: Popular Political Culture and Participatory Democracy in the Early American Republic” in Pasley, Robertson and Waldstreicher eds., Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic (2004), 31-56. Rosemarie Zagarri “The Significance of the Global Turn for the Early American Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic 31 (Spring 2011), 1-37. Nicole Eustace, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism (2012) “Interchange: The War of 1812,” Journal of American History 99 (Sept. 2012), 520-55. 11/6 The Early Republic at home: women and governance Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello (2008) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun, ch. 7-12 (pp. 248-417) Laura Edwards, “Enslaved Women and the Law: The Paradoxes of Subordination in the Post-Revolutionary Carolinas,” Slavery & Abolition 26 (August 2005), 305-323. 11/13 Capitalism Revisited, Slavery Revisited Edward E. Baptist, The Half has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (2014) Rosanne Currarino, “Toward a History of Cultural Economy,” Journal of the Civil War Era 2 (December 2012), 564-585 Seth Rockman, “What is Newsworthy about the History of Capitalism?” Journal of the Early Republic, forthcoming Dec. 2014 11/20 The West, the Frontier: Colonization and Empire 19th Century Style? Pekka Hamalainen, The Comanche Empire (2009) Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations and Families: A New History of the American West, 1800-1860 (2011) [11/27 no class – Thanksgiving] 12/4 1815-1848: Was it “Jacksonian”? Was it “Democracy”? Wilentz, Rise of American Democracy, ch. 6-20 (pp. 181-632) Daniel Walker Howe, What God Hath Wrought: The Transformation of the United States, 1815-1848 (2007) Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, chapters 27-45 (pp. 429-820) Cayton and Anderson, “Jackson’s Vision,” The Dominion of War, ch. 5 (pp. 207-46) 12/11 “Antebellum America” and The Coming and Fighting of the Civil War: A field taking stock William W. Freehling, The Reintegration of American History (1994), chapters 6-12 (pp.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • FALL LECTURES Graphs Sarah Weatherwax Was Pleased That They Been Used Only Infrequently by Scholars
    ALMANAC SEPTEMBER 2010 A MERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY NUMBER 80 IN THIS ISSUE THE REGISTERS OF PHILADELPHIA DAGUERREOTYPISTS IMONS OLLINS • R ECENT ACQUISITION S & C , 1845-1854 • F ALL LECTURES The opportunity to acquire business phia, more distant locations, • A NNUAL MEETING records for American daguerreotype op - such as Memphis, Tenn., erators is rare, so when curators at AAS Shrewsbury, Mass., and Tri - – W ORCESTER IN 1910 were contacted by our member David este, Austria, are also • B ARON LECTURE Doret about a pair recorded. Often, as is the • W IGGINS LECTURE of truly remark - case with the sitter from Tri - able customer reg - este (Stephen Chase), one • R ECOMMENDED READING isters being offered family member arrived for a • S UMMER SEMINARS by a Pennsylvania session and the next day re - dealer, we acted turned with other family – P ROGRAM IN THE HISTORY quickly. The regis - members – in this case Mrs. OF THE BOOK ters consist of a Chase, who, like her hus - – C ENTER FOR HISTORIC volume for the band, sat for a half plate AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE firm Simons & image. Occasionally, the en - Collins (Mont - tries can be frustratingly un - • CHAV IC C ONFERENCE gomery Simons specific, for example, mentioning only “A Lady,” • N EW MEMBERS and the Collins “An Irish Girl,” or “Child of the Hill family.” The brothers, Thomas information about cases and plate size is often • M ELLON DISTINGUISHED and David C.), and scratched hurriedly in the margin, along with notes SCHOLARS , 2010-2011 a second volume for its subsequent incarnation, about whether payment was owed.
    [Show full text]
  • Department of History University of New Hampshire
    DRAFT DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE History 939 Professor Eliga Gould Fall 2015 Office: Horton 423B T 8:40-9:30 Phone: 862-3012 Horton 422 E-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: T 9:30-11:30 and by appointment Readings in Early American History Assigned Readings. (Unless otherwise noted, all titles are available at the University Bookstore and the Durham Book Exchange.) Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (2005) Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (2000). Bushman, Richard. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (1992). Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (1983) Gould, Eliga H. Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (2012) Greene, Jack P., and Philip D. Morgan. Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (2008). Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (1989). Johnson, Walter. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (2013). Lepler, Jessica. The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis (2013). McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988). Morgan, Edmund S. and Helen M. The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (1953). Richter, Daniel. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (2001). Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990). Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1993).
    [Show full text]
  • The Gotham Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Awarded $250,000 for Writing Fellowships
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Tanya Domi, [email protected], 212-817-7283 The Gotham Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY, Awarded $250,000 for Writing Fellowships NEW YORK, Dec. X, 2018 – The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation has awarded $250,000 to The Gotham Center for New York City History at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, to establish a writing fellowship program. It is the center's first such grant. Four one-year grants of $40,000 will be conferred in 2020 and 2021 to scholars with promising book manuscripts near completion. "As the only university center devoted to New York City history, The Gotham Center has long been a vibrant nexus for promoting this critical field of study,” said Peter-Christian Aigner, the deputy director of The Gotham Center. “With this fellowship, we are going beyond that founding mission, directly underwriting the production of knowledge, with the goal of making the center a headquarters for not just education but research on the history of the metropolitan area." Recognizing a logical but excessive fixation on Manhattan in chronicling the history of New York, the fellowship hopes to encourage new topics of research, by supporting works that investigate the history of the region at large, with favor given to projects that explore the under-researched boroughs of the city, investigate the historical relationship between the urban core and Long Island, and examine the latter's history in the development of the metropolitan region. The fellowship program hopes to not only expand the history of New York City, but integrate it with the history of Long Island, building on more than a generation of scholarship challenging the popular distinction between city and suburb, and taking up the call by leading practitioners of urban and suburban history to integrate the fields with a metropolitan approach that recognizes the deep, co-dependent relations between such areas.
    [Show full text]
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellows-Pulitzer Prize Winners
    Woodrow Wilson Fellows—Pulitzer Prize Winners last updated January 2014 Visit http://woodrow.org/about/fellows/ to learn more about our Fellows. David W. Del Tredici Recipient of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Music In Memory of a Summer Day Distinguished Professor of Music • The City College of New York 1959 Woodrow Wilson Fellow Caroline M. Elkins Recipient of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Henry Holt) Professor of History • Harvard University 1994 Mellon Fellow Joseph J. Ellis, III Recipient of the 2001Pulitzer Prize for History Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Alfred A. Knopf) Professor Emeritus of History • Mount Holyoke College 1965 Woodrow Wilson Fellow Eric Foner Recipient of the 2011Pulitzer Prize for History The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (W.W. Norton) DeWitt Clinton Professor of History • Columbia University 1963 Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Hon.) Doris Kearns Goodwin Recipient of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Simon & Schuster) Historian 1964 Woodrow Wilson Fellow Stephen Greenblatt Recipient of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W.W. Norton) Cogan University Professor of the Humanities • Harvard University 1964 Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Hon.) Robert Hass Recipient of one of two 2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins) Distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics • The University of California at Berkeley 1963 Woodrow Wilson Fellow Michael Kammen (deceased) Recipient of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for History People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization (Alfred A.
    [Show full text]
  • Books Added to Benner Library from Estate of Dr. William Foote
    Books added to Benner Library from estate of Dr. William Foote # CALL NUMBER TITLE Scribes and scholars : a guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature / by L.D. Reynolds and N.G. 1 001.2 R335s, 1991 Wilson. 2 001.2 Se15e Emerson on the scholar / Merton M. Sealts, Jr. 3 001.3 R921f Future without a past : the humanities in a technological society / John Paul Russo. 4 001.30711 G163a Academic instincts / Marjorie Garber. Book of the book : some works & projections about the book & writing / edited by Jerome Rothenberg and 5 002 B644r Steven Clay. 6 002 OL5s Smithsonian book of books / Michael Olmert. 7 002 T361g Great books and book collectors / Alan G. Thomas. 8 002.075 B29g Gentle madness : bibliophiles, bibliomanes, and the eternal passion for books / Nicholas A. Basbanes. 9 002.09 B29p Patience & fortitude : a roving chronicle of book people, book places, and book culture / Nicholas A. Basbanes. Books of the brave : being an account of books and of men in the Spanish Conquest and settlement of the 10 002.098 L552b sixteenth-century New World / Irving A. Leonard ; with a new introduction by Rolena Adorno. 11 020.973 R824f Foundations of library and information science / Richard E. Rubin. 12 021.009 J631h, 1976 History of libraries in the Western World / by Elmer D. Johnson and Michael H. Harris. 13 025.2832 B175d Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper / Nicholson Baker. London booksellers and American customers : transatlantic literary community and the Charleston Library 14 027.2 R196L Society, 1748-1811 / James Raven.
    [Show full text]
  • 5C Texas Amicus
    Case: 21-40137 Document: 00515885219 Page: 1 Date Filed: 06/02/2021 No. 21-40137 In the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Lauren Terkel; Pineywoods Arcadia Home Team, Limited; Lufkin Creekside Apartments, Limited; Lufkin Creekside Apartments II, Limited; Lakeridge Apartments, Limited; Weatherford Meadow Vista Apartments, L.P.; MacDonald Property Management, L.L.C., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Rochelle P. Walensky, in her official capacity as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Sherri A. Berger, in her official capacity as Acting Chief of Staff for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; United States Department of Health and Human Services; Xavier Becerra, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; United States of America, Defendants-Appellants. On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division BRIEF FOR AMICUS CURIAE THE STATE OF TEXAS Ken Paxton Judd E. Stone II Attorney General of Texas Solicitor General [email protected] Brent Webster First Assistant Attorney General Lanora C. Pettit Principal Deputy Solicitor General Office of the Attorney General P.O. Box 12548 (MC 059) Austin, Texas 78711-2548 Tel.: (512) 936-1700 Counsel for Amicus Curiae Fax: (512) 474-2697 The State of Texas Case: 21-40137 Document: 00515885219 Page: 2 Date Filed: 06/02/2021 Supplemental Certificate of Interested Persons No. 21-40137 Lauren Terkel; Pineywoods Arcadia Home Team, Limited; Lufkin Creekside Apartments, Limited; Lufkin Creekside Apartments II, Limited; Lakeridge Apartments, Limited; Weatherford Meadow Vista Apartments, L.P.; MacDonald Property Management, L.L.C., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v.
    [Show full text]
  • AHA Colloquium
    Cover.indd 1 13/10/20 12:51 AM Thank you to our generous sponsors: Platinum Gold Bronze Cover2.indd 1 19/10/20 9:42 PM 2021 Annual Meeting Program Program Editorial Staff Debbie Ann Doyle, Editor and Meetings Manager With assistance from Victor Medina Del Toro, Liz Townsend, and Laura Ansley Program Book 2021_FM.indd 1 26/10/20 8:59 PM 400 A Street SE Washington, DC 20003-3889 202-544-2422 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.historians.org Perspectives: historians.org/perspectives Facebook: facebook.com/AHAhistorians Twitter: @AHAHistorians 2020 Elected Officers President: Mary Lindemann, University of Miami Past President: John R. McNeill, Georgetown University President-elect: Jacqueline Jones, University of Texas at Austin Vice President, Professional Division: Rita Chin, University of Michigan (2023) Vice President, Research Division: Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania (2021) Vice President, Teaching Division: Laura McEnaney, Whittier College (2022) 2020 Elected Councilors Research Division: Melissa Bokovoy, University of New Mexico (2021) Christopher R. Boyer, Northern Arizona University (2022) Sara Georgini, Massachusetts Historical Society (2023) Teaching Division: Craig Perrier, Fairfax County Public Schools Mary Lindemann (2021) Professor of History Alexandra Hui, Mississippi State University (2022) University of Miami Shannon Bontrager, Georgia Highlands College (2023) President of the American Historical Association Professional Division: Mary Elliott, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (2021) Nerina Rustomji, St. John’s University (2022) Reginald K. Ellis, Florida A&M University (2023) At Large: Sarah Mellors, Missouri State University (2021) 2020 Appointed Officers Executive Director: James Grossman AHR Editor: Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University, Bloomington Treasurer: William F.
    [Show full text]
  • Gatekeepers and Guardians: Changes in Women's Status in The
    Gatekeepers and Guardians: Changes in Women’s Status in the Era of the American Revolution. by Lindsey M. Fisher Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the History Program YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY August 2016 Gatekeepers and Guardians: Changes in Women’s Status in the Era of the American Revolution. Lindsey M. Fisher I hereby release this thesis to the public. I understand that this thesis will be made available from the OhioLINK ETD Center and the Maag Library Circulation Desk for public access. I also authorize the University or other individuals to make copies of this thesis as needed for scholarly research. Signature: Lindsey M. Fisher, Student Date Approvals: Dr. Martha Pallante, Thesis Advisor Date Dr. Donna DeBlasio, Committee Member Date Dr. L. Diane Barnes, Committee Member Date Dr. Salvatore A. Sanders, Dean of Graduate Studies Date ABSTRACT The American Revolution had a profound effect on the practical behaviors of women. Women acted economically, socially, and politically to survive the war. The most notable expression of their behavior is through legal divorce, which increased exponentially immediately after the War for Independence. This surge showed that women had not only the economic means to leave a marriage, but also that they had the legal right to do so with less social stigma. iii Table of Contents Introduction and Historiography ..........................................................................................1 Chapter One: “with the Same Care and Dispatch”:
    [Show full text]
  • Women and the American Revolution
    Women and the American Revolution Jan Lewis Downloaded from http://maghis.oxfordjournals.org/ nyone who teaches the history of power. We may ask the old questions, but tions. It was believed, for example, that A the American Revolution faces a we can address them in more inclusive gentlemen were superior to yeomen, the challenge: What do we say about the expe­ ways. We might even return to Carl free superior to slaves, and men superior rience of the fifty percent of the popula­ Becker's old question and ask how Revo­ to women. As a consequence, girls owed at OAH member access on July 2, 2012 tion that was female when we talk about lutionary the war was. How did it affect obedience to their fathers and-when they the political history of our nation? As we the half of the population that was female? married-to their husbands. Although by all know, the past several years have wit­ Focusing upon the position of women the eighteenth century family relations nessed the growing conviction that were generally affectionate, with we should teach a history that is parents doting upon their children, more inclusive, that talks about what and couples marrying not for money, the most acerbic critics of the cur­ but for love, it was everywhere be­ rent curricula describe as something Return to Carl Becker sold lieved that the father/husband was more than the history of dead white question and ask how Revo­ the head of the household. Indeed, men. Those who have heeded this when a woman married, she lost call have most often transformed lutionary the war was.
    [Show full text]
  • Education on the Underground Railroad: a Case Study of Three Communities in New York State (1820-1870)
    Syracuse University SURFACE Dissertations - ALL SURFACE 12-2013 Education on the Underground Railroad: A Case Study of Three Communities in New York State (1820-1870) Lenora April Harris Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/etd Part of the Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Harris, Lenora April, "Education on the Underground Railroad: A Case Study of Three Communities in New York State (1820-1870)" (2013). Dissertations - ALL. 30. https://surface.syr.edu/etd/30 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the SURFACE at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations - ALL by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ABSTRACT In the mid-nineteenth century a compulsory education system was emerging that allowed all children to attend public schools in northern states. This dissertation investigates school attendance rates among African American children in New York State from 1850–1870 by examining household patterns and educational access for African American school-age children in three communities: Sandy Ground, Syracuse, and Watertown. These communities were selected because of their involvement in the Underground Railroad. I employed a combination of educational and social history methods, qualitative and quantitative. An analysis of federal census reports, state superintendent reports, city directories, area maps, and property records for the years 1820–1870 yielded comparative data on households, African American and European American, in which African American school-age children resided. The nature of schooling and the manner in which the household and community advocated for school attendance during this period are also described and compared.
    [Show full text]
  • War, Women, Vietnam: the Mobilization of Female Images, 1954-1978
    War, Women, Vietnam: The Mobilization of Female Images, 1954-1978 Julie Annette Riggs Osborn A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Washington 2013 Reading Committee: William J. Rorabaugh, Chair Susan Glenn Christoph Giebel Program Authorized to Offer Degree: History ©Copyright 2013 Julie Annette Riggs Osborn University of Washington Abstract War, Women, Vietnam: The Mobilization of Female Images, 1954-1978 Julie Annette Riggs Osborn Chair of the Supervisory Committee: William J. Rorabaugh, History This dissertation proceeds with two profoundly interwoven goals in mind: mapping the experience of women in the Vietnam War and evaluating the ways that ideas about women and gender influenced the course of American involvement in Vietnam. I argue that between 1954 and 1978, ideas about women and femininity did crucial work in impelling, sustaining, and later restraining the American mission in Vietnam. This project evaluates literal images such as photographs, film and television footage as well as images evoked by texts in the form of news reports, magazine articles, and fiction, focusing specifically on images that reveal deeply gendered ways of seeing and representing the conflict for Americans. Some of the images I consider include a French nurse known as the Angel of Dien Bien Phu, refugees fleeing for southern Vietnam in 1954, the first lady of the Republic of Vietnam Madame Nhu, and female members of the National Liberation Front. Juxtaposing images of American women, I also focus on the figure of the housewife protesting American atrocities in Vietnam and the use of napalm, and images wrought by American women intellectuals that shifted focus away from the military and toward the larger social and psychological impact of the war.
    [Show full text]
  • Found, Featured, Then Forgotten: U.S. Network TV News and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War © 2011 by Mark D
    Found, Featured, then Forgotten Image created by Jack Miller. Courtesy of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Found, Featured, then Forgotten U.S. Network TV News and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mark D. Harmon Newfound Press THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE LIBRARIES, KNOXVILLE Found, Featured, then Forgotten: U.S. Network TV News and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War © 2011 by Mark D. Harmon Digital version at www.newfoundpress.utk.edu/pubs/harmon Newfound Press is a digital imprint of the University of Tennessee Libraries. Its publications are available for non-commercial and educational uses, such as research, teaching and private study. The author has licensed the work under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/. For all other uses, contact: Newfound Press University of Tennessee Libraries 1015 Volunteer Boulevard Knoxville, TN 37996-1000 www.newfoundpress.utk.edu ISBN-13: 978-0-9797292-8-7 ISBN-10: 0-9797292-8-9 Harmon, Mark D., (Mark Desmond), 1957- Found, featured, then forgotten : U.S. network tv news and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War / Mark D. Harmon. Knoxville, Tenn. : Newfound Press, University of Tennessee Libraries, c2011. 191 p. : digital, PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-191). 1. Vietnam Veterans Against the War—Press coverage—United States. 2. Vietnam War, 1961-1975—Protest movements—United States—Press coverage. 3. Television broadcasting of news—United States—History—20th century. I. Title. HE8700.76.V54 H37 2011 Book design by Jayne White Rogers Cover design by Meagan Louise Maxwell Contents Preface .....................................................................
    [Show full text]