ASH 3002y Class Notes
March 8, 1999

Whose Revolution Anyway? The Rhetoric of Revolution

Present projects: 

• We were so pleased with the projects that this took the whole class.   We will catch up next time.  See the projects here.

Discussion of texts:

• Thomas Paine, From Common Sense [1776]and The Crisis, No. 1 (1777), pp. 691-705.
• Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (1776) in The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, pp. 714-719.
• J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, "Letter III:  What Is an American" (1782), pp.641-659

Electronic, Web-Based Resources

• For searchable electronic versions of some of the principal revolutionary and constitutional documents, including The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States and The Federalist Papers:
  • The Yale Law School Avalon Project -- http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/lawschool/webtfp.htm
  • Emory Law School Page -- http://www.law.emory.edu/Federal
  • Oklahoma Law School Page -- http://www.law.uoknor.edu/hist/
  • Docments from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention in American Memory -- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html
• For an excellent bibliography of published accounts and interpretations of the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1790:  Mighigan State,PBS and OIEAHC --http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/
• For some maps of the Revolutionary Era, see the University of Georgia's Hargrett Collection:
  http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/revamer.html