AMSH 3002y/Spring 1998 - April 1st Meeting/Notes
EARLY AC HOMEPAGE | LECTURE NOTES
AMSH 3002y/Spring 1998
April 1st Meeting/Notes
Lab #3 -- A
Technical Grab Bag
Final Exam -- Optional
[15%] -- 2 Hours// General Knowledge of Early American Culture
A speculative essay or two -- one on content// one on methods
(including presentational methods)
Walking Tour #1 -- Wednesday, April 15th
-- South Street
Seaport Museum and NY Digs
"Beta" Version of 2nd Presentation (all others due 4/3)
Websites for bsites for Monday meeting -- Transcendental Biographies in Cyberspace
RWEmerson -- RWE Timeline/Chronology http://www.watershed.winnipeg.mb.ca/Emersonchronology.html
Other RWE links: http://www.watershed.winnipeg.mb.ca/EMERSONlinks.html
HDThoreau -- HDThoreau website: http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwhdt/home.html
Thoreau's Cape Cod: An Interactive Tour -- http://umsa.umd.edu/thoreau/history.html#top
Thoreau Project at UCSbarbara: http://umsa.umd.edu/thoreau/history.html#top
Frederick Douglass -- FD websites: http://www.citycom.com/fddesigns/fdouglinks.html
4th of July Speech text: --http://parallel.park.uga.edu/distance/texts/douglas.html
Margaret Fuller -- http://www.arh.eku.edu/eng/KOPACZ/title.htm
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Tocqueville in America (at Uva) -- http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/toc_intro.html
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"At the end of the year 1831, while I was on the left bank of the Mississippi, at a place named by
Europeans Memphis, there arrived a numerous band of Choctaws (or Chactas, as they are called by the
French in Louisiana). These savages had left their country and were endeavoring to gain the right bank of
the Mississippi, where they hoped to find an asylum that had been promised them by the American
government. It was then the middle of winter, and the cold was unusually severe; the snow had frozen
hard upon the ground, and the river was drifting huge masses of ice. The Indians had their families with
them, and they brought in their train the wounded and the sick, with children newly born and old men
upon the verge of death. They possessed neither tents nor wagons, but only their arms and some
provisions. I saw them embark to pass the mighty river, and never will that solemn spec- tacle fade from
my remembrance. No cry, no sob, was heard among the assembled crowd; all were silent. Their
calamities were of ancient date, and they knew them to be irremediable. The Indians had all stepped into
the bark that was to carry them across, but their dogs remained upon the bank. As soon as these animals
perceived that their masters were finally leaving the shore, they set up a dismal howl and, plunging all
together into the icy waters of the Mississippi, swam after the boat.
The expulsion of the Indians often takes place at the present day in a regular and, as it were, a legal
manner."
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Census Data: Numbers in American Studies/Early American Culture
United States Census Electronic Browser -- http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~census/
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