Georgia History CRIST 3711) GR University-Augusta Spring Semester 2015 John R. Barney, Professor
I. Course Description:
Georgia History serves as an introduction to the various activities within Georgia from its pre-colonial period through the first decade and a half of the 21st century. This introduction addresses not only political and economic features but also cultural and demographic features.
II. Books:
Georgia: A State History, Buddy Sullivan, The Making of America Series, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, Georgia Historical Society (2003) ISBN: 978-0-7385-8589-5, Paperback.
Cornerstones of Georgia History Documents that Formed the State, edited by Thomas Scott University of Georgia Press, Athens (1995) ISBN; 13-978-08203-1743-4, Paperback
III. Evaluation:
Presentations: 30% Class Participation: 10% Midterm Examination: 30% Final Examination: 30% Georgia History (3711) Spring Semester 2015
IV. Course Calendar:
Tuesday, January 6: Introduction, distribute syllabus, assign presentations
Thursday, January 8: "Georgia" Before English Colonization. Two "Forgotten" Centuries(GASH). Spain and the Native Americans: The Guale Revolt,1597CCOGH).
Tuesday, January 13 and Thursday, January 15: The Georgia Colony at Its Inception under the Trustees. The Colony under the Trustees(GASH). Trustees and Malcontents: The Colonial Controversy over Slavery and Georgia's Future. Cherokees and Creeks: Traditional Cultures and the Anglo Saxon Encounter(COGH). Presentations: James Oglethorpe, Chief Tomochichi.
Tuesday, January 20: The Colony becomes a Royal Colony. A Royal Province(GASH). Presentations: John Reynolds, Henry Ellis, Sir James Wright, Mary Musgrove.
Thursday, January 22 and Tuesday, January 27: From War for Independence to Statehood. The American Revolution and Statehood(GASH),Patriots and Loyalists: Georgia on the Eve of the Revolution (COGH). See: The Declaration ofIndependence (find online). Presentations: John Abbot, William Bartram, Nancy Hart, Elijah Clarke, George Walton, Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett, William Few, Abraham Baldwin.
Thursday, January 29 and Tuesday, February 3: The State of Georgia and American Indians. Expansion into the Interior(GASH), The State of Georgia and the Cherokees: The Debate over Indian Removal(COGH). Presentations: Sequoyah, Alexander McGillivray, Basil Hall, George M. Troup.
Thursday, February 5 and Tuesday, February 10: The Influence of the Industrial Revolution on the Cotton Kingdom. The Rise ofKing Cotton and the Railroad(GASH), Slavery in Antebellum Georgia(COGH). Presentations: Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman, Benjamin Harvey Hill, John Forsyth, Crawford W. Long, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. Georgia History (3711) Spring 2015
Thursday, February 12: The Collapse of Compromise and the Coming of Civil War. The Politics ofSecession(GASH), Secessionists and Cooperationists: The Decision to Leave the Union(COGH) . See: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XXXIV, The Quadroon's Story(found online). Presentations: Alexander H. Stephens, Howell Cobb, Father Abram Joseph Ryan.
Tuesday, February 17, Thursday, February 19, Tuesday February 24 and Thursday, February 26: Civil War and Reconstruction. Civil War and Reconstruction(GASH), The Federal Occupation of Georgia: Perspectives of North Georgia Women(COGH). Presentations: John Brown Gordon, Robert Toombs, James Longstreet, Berry Benson, George Washington Rains, Joseph E. Brown.
Tuesday, March 3: Midterm.
Thursday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 10: "New South" Georgia. The New South(GASH), Reconstruction in Georgia(COGH). Presentations: Sidney Lanier, Lucy Craft Laney, Joel Chandler Harris, Henry Grady, John Pemberton, Martha Berry, John Henry "Doc" Holliday.
Thursday, March 12 and Tuesday, March 17: The State Enters the Twentieth Century. The Turn of the Twentieth Century and Beyond(GASH), Postwar Poverty: Fault of the North or the South? and "Jim Crow" Georgia and Its Leaders, Black and White(COGH) Presentations: Andrew and Addie Ritchie, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Ty Cobb, Juliette Gordon Low, Major Archibald Butt.
Thursday, March 19, Tuesday, March 24 and Thursday, March 26:Between the Wars: Social and Economic and Political Upheaval. The 1920S, 1930s, and the Great Depression(GASH), The Leo Frank Case and Georgia's Rejection of Woman Suffrage and Crisis in Agriculture: The Great Migration, Boll Weevil Invasion, and Great Depression(COGH). Presentations: John M. Slaton, Walter F. George, Bobby Jones, Margaret Mitchell, Lamar Dodd, Rebecca Latimer Felton, Stephen Vincent Benet, Oliver Hardy. Georgia History (3711) Spring 2015
Tuesday, March 31 and Thursday, April 2: World War II and Its Influence. Turbulent Times: Mid-Century(GASH), Moving toward the Mainstream: Georgia in the 194os(COGH). Presentations: Aquilla J. (Jimmy) Dyess, Ralph McGill, Flannery O'Connor, General Lucius Dubignon Clay.
Spring Break: April 6-10
Tuesday, April 14, Thursday, April 16, Tuesday and April 21: Challenges as Georgians Move Towards the Twenty-First Century. To the New Millennium: Civil Rights and the Emergence ofModem Georgia(GASH}, The Integration ofPublic Schools and Colleges and The Rise of a Future President: The Gubernatorial Inauguration ofJimmy Carter and Economic Development and Quality ofLife: The Debate over a Hazardous Waste Facility for Taylor County(COGH). Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail (find online). Presentations: Louise Shivers, Starkey Flythe, Ray Charles, James Dickey, James Brown, Hank Aaron, William B. Hartsfield, Jessye Norman, Ferrol Sams, Pat Conroy, Benny Andrews, Eliot Wigginton, Edward J. Cashin, Susan Still.
Thursday, April 23: Contemporary Georgia and Her Prospects for the Future.
Tuesday, April 28: Reflections, Conclusions and Observations.
Final Examinations: April30-May 5.