Georgia History (HIST 3711) GR University-Augusta MW 4:00-5:15, AH E259 John R. Barney, Professor Fall Semester 2014
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) Fall Semester 2014
IV. Course Calendar:
Monday, August 18: Introduction, distribute syllabus, assign presentations
Wednesday, August 20: Two “Forgotten” Centuries(GASH), Pain and the Native Americans: The Guale Revolt, 1597(COGH).
Monday, August 25 and Wednesday August 27: The Colony Under the Trustees(GASH), Cherokees and Creeks: Traditional Cultures and the Anglo- Saxon Encounter and Trustees and Malcontents: The Colonial Controversy over Slavery and Georgia’s Future(COGH). Presentations: James Oglethorpe, Chief Tomochichi.
Monday, September 1: Labor Day Holiday.
Wednesday, September 3: A Royal Province(GASH). Presentations: John Reynolds, Henry Ellis, Sir James Wright, Mary Musgrove.
Monday, September 8 and Wednesday, September 10: The American Revolution and Statehood(GASH),Patriots and Loyalists: Georgia on the Eve of the Revolution (COGH). The Declaration of Independence (find online). Presentations: John Abbot, William Bartram, Nancy Hart, Elijah Clarke.
Monday, September 15 and Wednesday, September 17: 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.
Monday, September 22 and Wednesday, September 24: The Rise of King Cotton and the Railroad(GASH), Slavery in Antebellum Georgia(COGH). From: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Chapter XXXIV, The Quadroon’s Story”(found online). Presentations: Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman, Benjamin Harvey Hill, John Forsyth, Crawford W. Long.
Georgia History (3711) Fall 2014
Monday, September 29: The Politics of Secession(GASH), Secessionists and Cooperationists: The Decision to Leave the Union(COGH). Presentations: Alexander H. Stephens, Howell Cobb, Father Abram Joseph Ryan.
Wednesday, October 1, Monday, October 6 and Wednesday, October 8: 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.
Monday, October 13: Midterm.
Wednesday, October 15 and Monday, October 20: The New South(GASH), Reconstruction in Georgia(COGH). Presentations: Sidney Lanier, Lucy Craft Laney, Joel Chandler Harris, Henry Grady, John Pemberton, Martha Berry.
Wednesday, October 22 and Monday, October 27: 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.
Wednesday, October 29, Monday, November 3 and Wednesday, November 5: 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, Margaret Mitchell, Stephen Vincent Benet.
Monday, November 10 and Wednesday, November 12: Turbulent Times: Mid-Century(GASH), Moving toward the Mainstream: Georgia in the 1940s(COGH). Presentations: Aquilla J. (Jimmy) Dyess, Ralph McGill, Flannery O’Connor.
Georgia History (3711) Fall 2014
Monday, November 17, Wednesday, November 19 and Monday, November 24:To the New Millennium: Civil Rights and the Emergence of Modern Georgia(GASH), The Integration of Public Schools and Colleges and The Rise of a Future President: The Gubernatorial Inauguration of Jimmy Carter and Economic Development and Quality of Life: 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, Bennie Andrews, Eliot Wigginton, Edward J. Cashin, Susan Still.
Wednesday, November 26: Thanksgiving Holiday.
Monday, December 1: Conclusions. Wednesday, December 3: Last Day of Class. Monday, December 8: Final Examination.