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American
Studies
Barnard College, Columbia
University
AMS 3002y Lecture/Lab Calendar
Introduction
January 21 : "In the beginning, all was America" -- John Locke
I. The European Beginnings of America 1524 - 1700
January 26: Approached by Sea: The Atlantic Context
January 28: Lab #1 -- Newsgroups and Websites
February 2: Theological Givens, Social Departures in 17thC New England
February 4: Lab #2 -- The Web as Resource: Maps 'n Stuff
February 9: The Chesapeake: Tobacco and the Resort to Slavery
February 11: Apologies to the Pequots: Puritan Encounters with Indians
February 16: Lab #3 -- New York City as a Cultural Resource
February 18: The Witches of Salem, the Magistrates of Boston
II. Settling In 1700 - 1775
February 23: Provincial Profiles: Ben Franklin and Jonathan Edwards
February 25: Imperial Bonds: The Case of King's College
March 2: Lab # 4 -- Colonial Arts and Material Culture
March 4: Mobs and Scribblers: The Backdrop of Rebellion
III. Breaking Out 1775 - 1800
March 9th: Whose Revolution, Anyway?
March 11: Republican Women
Spring Break
March 23: Making Constitutions and Taming Factions
March 25: Lab #5 -- The Founding Fathers in Cyberspace
March 30t: Jefferson and the Fateful Turn West
April 1: The Vanishing Indian: Rhetoric and Policy
IV. An American Renaissance 1835 - 1855
April 6: Transcendental Biographies: Emerson & Douglass
April 8: Lab # 6 -- Jacksonian Architecture
April 13: Transcendental Landscapes/Luminous Seascapes
April 15: Walt Whitman's New York
V. Mid-Century Crisis: Melville, Stowe & Lincoln
April 20: Whaling as Work, Whaling as Metaphor
April 22: Lab #7 -- Melville's Wooden World
April 27: Harriet Beecher Stowe's War Against Slavery
April 29: Lab # 8 -- TBA
May 4: Abraham Lincoln's War for the Nation's Soul
Final Exam as per University Schedule