Lecture Outlines
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These are offered "as is."  New outlines will be posted as we go through the semester, usually late the evening before class, but I reserve the right to change the lectures as necessary after these outlines are posted. Want to see how? Come to class!

FALL 2007

DATE LECTURE TOPICS
Aug. 23 Themes of the Course
Aug. 28-30  The House Divided: The Political and Cultural Crisis of the 1840s and 1850s
Sept. 4-6 Father Abraham Puts the House in Order: The Coming of Civil War
Sept. 6-11-13 Patriarchy and Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe
Sept. 13-18-25 Patriarchy, Sovereignty, and the European-Indian Encounter
Sept. 25-27 Patriarchs in the Wilderness, 1: Virginia
Oct. 2-4 Patriarchs in the Wilderness, 2: New England
Oct. 9-11-16 Pennsylvania, the Restoration Colonies, and the Origins of Modern America
Oct. 16-18-23 Stumbling Toward Liberty: The Enlightenment and the Rise of Lockean Liberalism in the 18th Century
Oct. 25-30-Nov. 1 Family Feud: The Coming of the American Revolution
Nov. 6-8-13 Killing the King: Unintended Consequences of the American Revolution (.pdf of PowerPoint slides)
Nov. 15-27 Fathers of Their Country: The Federalists
Nov. 29 Sentimental Journey:  The New Middle-Class Family
Dec. 4-6 Jeffersonian Experiment and Its Ironies (includes elements of "The Cotton Kingdom" and more than covered  in class)  
-- see below for full text from 2006
Dec. 6 A Benevolent Empire? Moral Reform and the “Feminization” of Northern Society

FALL 2006

DATE LECTURE TOPIC(s)
Aug. 22 Introduction: What History is Not
Aug. 24-29-31 Patriarchy and Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe
Aug. 31-Sept. 5-7-12 Patriarchy, Sovereignty, and the American Indians
Sept. 14-19 Patriarchs in the Wilderness: Virginia  pdf version
Sept. 19-21-26 Patriarchs in the Wilderness: New England (full lecture notes)
Sept. 28-Oct. 3-5

The Middle Colonies, Liberalism, and the Enlightenment: The Origins of “American” Culture
Oct. 10-12-17 Family Feud: The Coming of the American Revolution (includes material skipped in lecture)
Oct. 19-24-26 Killing the King: Unintended Consequences of the American Revolution
Oct. 31-Nov. 2-7-9 Fathers of Their Country: The Federalists
Nov. 14 The Jeffersonian Experiment and Its Ironies (full text)
Nov. 16-28 Sentimental Journey: Economic Change and the New Middle-Class Family
Nov. 28-30 The Cotton Kingdom,  including terms from "Africans in America"
Dec. 5 A Benevolent Empire? Religion, Moral Reform, and Domestic Politics in the Antebellum North (includes a screen we will be skipping in class)
Dec. 7 The House Divided: The Political and Cultural Crisis of Antebellum America

SPRING 2006

DATE LECTURE TOPIC(s)
Jan. 17 Introduction: What History is Not
Jan. 19-24-26 Patriarchy, Sovereignty, and the European-Indian Encounter, part 1: Europe   (full presentation: large pdf)
Jan. 31-Feb. 2-4-7 Patriarchy, Sovereignty, and the European-Indian Encounter, part 2: Native Americans (full presentation: large pdf)
Feb. 7-9-14 The 17th-Century Origins of the South and North , part 1 -- Virginia
Feb. 14-16-21 The 17th-Century Origins of the South and North, part 2 -- New England and Canada  (full lecture notes)
Feb. 21-23 Stumbling Toward Liberty: Colonial America from the Restoration to the Enlightenment (including Locke, Quakers, Pennsylvania)
Feb. 28-Mar. 2 Growing Up: American Society on the Eve of the Revolution
March 7-9 Family Feud:  The Coming of the American Revolution
March 14-16-21 Killing the King: Unintended Consequences of the American Revolution
March 23-Apr. 4-6 Fathers of the Their Country: The Federalists, part 1; part 2
Apr. 13-18 The Jeffersonian Experiment (outline goes a bit further than we did in class)
Apr. 20-25-27 The Cotton Kingdom, including terms from "Africans in America"
May 2 A Benevolent Empire? The "Feminization" of Northern Society (includes first screen skipped in class)
May 4 The House Divided: The Political and Cultural Crisis of Antebellum America