OUT OF MANY:  HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES TO 1877
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 2311-004H
TTh 11AM-12:20—303 Virginia Snider
Prof. Andrea Hamilton—17G Dallas Hall—214-768-3808   andreah@smu.edu

This honors section of the US history survey will be small and discussion-based. We will move beyond a basic narrative of events as we examine the lives of famous and not-so famous Americans from the earliest time of contact between natives and Europeans through the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. A variety of primary and secondary sources will help us explore the political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual changes in America as it developed into a vibrant, yet divided, nation.

Readings will include: 1) Allan Greer, The Jesuit Relations:  Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America; 2) Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God; 3) Gordon S. Wood, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different; 4) Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America; 5) Louise P. Masur, 1831;
 6) Frederick Douglass, The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass; 7) Kathryn Kisch Sklar, Women’s Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870; 8) James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War.