WEEK 1
(readings in bold are required of everyone; others will be divided among participants, 2 each per week) |
Sunday, June 19 |
Gather in Philadelphia, evening reception 7:30 pm
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Monday, June 20 |
9:00 seminar: Introductions and discussion of individual research projects
1:30 orientation tour of Library Company of Philadelphia
2:30 field trip to National Constitution Center, Independence Park, American Philosophical Society |
Tuesday, June 21 |
9:00 seminar
Countryman, What Did the Constitution Mean, 1-67, 89-164 |
Wednesday, June 22 |
9:00 seminar
Zagarri, “Rights of Man and Woman”
--------, “Women’s Citizenship in the Early Republic”
Larson, Internal Improvement, Intro-chap 1
Murrin, “The Great Inversion”
Holton, Forced Founders, chaps 5-6 |
Thursday, June 23 |
9:00 seminar
Larson, Internal Improvement, chaps 2-4
1:30 progress reports |
Friday, June 24 |
Free for research and study |
WEEK 2 |
Monday, June 27 |
Free for research and study
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Tuesday, June 28 |
9:00 seminar
Tocqueville, vol. 1, part 1, chaps 4, 8 (founding)
Vol. 1, part 2, chaps 1-4 (political practice)
Wood, “Interests and Disinterestedness”
Skeen, “VOX POPULI, VOX DEI”
Taylor, “From Fathers to Friends of the People”
Ketcham, Presidents Against Party. Chaps 5-8 |
Wednesday, June 29 |
9:00 seminar
Tocqueville, vol 1, part 2, chaps 5-6 (practice, majoritarianism), vol 2, part 2, chaps 1- (individualism)
Clark, Roots, chaps 3-5
---------, Social Change, chaps 3-4
Breugel, Farm, Shop Landing, chaps 5-6
Novak, People’s Welfare, chap 3, 5
Gilje, Wages of Independence, intro.
Thornton , “Great Machine or Beast of Prey” |
Thursday, June 30 |
9:00 seminar
Tocqueville, vol 1, part 2, chaps 7-9
Larson, Internal Improvement, chaps 5-end
Watson, Liberty and Power, chap. 2
Feller, Jacksonian Promise, chaps 2-3
Larson, Market Revolution, chaps 2-3
1:30 progress reports
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Friday, July 1 |
Free for research and study
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WEEK 3 |
Monday, July 4 |
Free –holiday
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Tuesday, July 5 |
9:00 seminar
Tocqueville, vol 2, part 2, 10-20 (comfort and indulgences), vol 2, part 3, 1-7 (mores and expectations)
Johnson, A Shopkeeper’s Millennium, chaps 1-2
Anbinder, Five Points, chaps 3,4,6
Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront, chap 6
Gilfoyle, City of Eros, chaps 4-5
Cohen, Murder of Helen Jewitt, chaps 2, 5, 11 |
Wednesday, July 6 |
9:00 seminar
Tocqueville, vol. 1, part 2, chap 10 (races)
Melish, Disowning Slavery, chap 4
Stewart, “Modernizing ‘Difference’: The Political Meanings of Color in the Free States”
Horton, “From Class to Race in Early America”
Johnson, Soul by Soul, chap 3
Huston, “Abolitionists, Political Economists, and Capitalists”
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Thursday, July 7 |
9:00 seminar
Tocqueville, vol. 2, part 3, chaps 8-12 ( family)
Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army, Chapters 1-3
Bynum, Unruly Women, chap 4
Boydston, Jeanne, “The Woman Who Wasn’t There”
Wood, “One Woman So Dangerous to Public Morals”
Varon, We Mean to Be Counted, chap 2
1:30 progress reports |
Friday, July 8 |
Free for research and study
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WEEK 4 |
Monday, July 11 |
Free for research and study
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Tuesday, July 12 |
9:00 seminar
Morrison, Slavery and the American West, chaps 1-4
Earle, Jacksonian Politics, “Introduction, Chapter 7, “Conclusion”
Silbey, “To One or Another of these Parties Every Man Belongs”
Stampp, “Irrepressible Conflict”
Foner, “Causes of the American Civil War”
Fehrenbacher, “New Political History and the Coming of the
Civil War”
Holt, “Problem of Civil War Causation”
---------, “Mysterious Disappearance of the Whig Party” |
Wednesday, July 13 |
9:00 seminar
Morrison, Slavery and the American West, chaps 5-8
Varon, Disunion! Chapter 4.
Gienapp, “‘No Bed of Roses’: James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln,
and Presidential Leadership in the Civil War Era”
Freehling, “Divided South, Democracy’s Limitation, and the
Causes of Peculiarly North American Civil War”
Thornton, “Ethic of Southern Subsistence and the Origins of
Southern Secession”
Holt, “Two Roads to Sumter”
Foner, “Politics, Ideology, and the Origins of the American Civil
War”
Donald, “An Excess of Democracy: The American Civil War and
the Social Process” |
Thursday, July 14 |
9:00 seminar
Research presentations—all day |
SHEAR Conference July 15-17. |
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