Class Schedule

August 23: Introduction

August 25: John Winthrop: A Model of Christian Charity; John Cotton, The Devine Right to Occupy the Land; Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

August 30:

• Bryan W Gaines: John Cotton, The Devine Right to Occupy the Land
• Stefan McBride: Adam Smith, America and the Wealth of Nations.
• Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America; Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

September 1:

· Kristen M Icenhower: Michel St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer

· Beth Maria Rowe: Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson on Slavery; Anonymous (Yates), Brutus #1.

September 6: LABOR DAY.

September 8: Foner, Chapter 1, The Birth of American Freedom.

September 13: Foner, Chapter 2, To Call It Freedom.

September 15:

• Jeff Lindsey: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Jefferson and Adams on Aristocracy (1812-1814)
• Adair Preston: Daniel Webster, Against Universal Manhood Suffrage (1820)
• Daniel Raymond, Thoughts on Political Economy.

September 20: Examination 1.

September 22: Foner, Chapter 3, An Empire of Liberty.

September 27:

• Stephen Britchett: Foner, Chapter 4, The Boundaries of Freedom in the Young Republic.

September 29:

• Marcus Ysasi: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
• Richard James: George Bancroft, The Office of the People
• Travell Green, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance.

October 4:

• Charles Neff: Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Young American
• Nikki May: Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
• Keasha Hammons: George Bancroft, The Progress of Mankind.

October 6: Foner, Chapter 5, A New Birth of Freedom.

October 11:

• Eric Minkler: B.M. Palmer, M.J. Raphall and Henry Ward Beecher, Fast Day Sermons
• Robyn Bruner: Alexander Stephens, Slavery and the Confederacy.
• Regina Latimer: Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History

October 13: Foner, Chapter 6, Liberty of Contract and Its Discontents.

October 18:

• Cherokee Turner: Horatio Storer, The Origins of Insanity in Women
• Shelly Wells: U.S. Supreme Court, Bradwell v. The State of Illinois
• Taylor Parker: William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

October 20:

• Dionnne Edwards: W.E.B. Du Bois, Strivings of the Negro People
• John Franks: Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class

October 25: Examination 2.

October 27:

• Dixie Ardwin: Foner, Chapter 7, Progressive Freedom.

November 1:

• Mary Murdock: Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life
• Courtney Ellison: U.S. Supreme Court, Lochner v. New York
• Amanda E Delaney: William James, The Moral Equivalent of War.

November 3:

• Ryan Leeper: Clarence S. Darrow and Arthur M. Lewis, Marx Versus Tolstoy
• Whitney Redd: Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery
• Karen Musgrove: Jane Addams, Social Ethics
• Christopher Shumake: Robert Frost, North of Boston

November 8:

· Tim Forrest: Foner, Chapter 8, The Birth of Civil Liberties.

November 10:

• Jennifer McLeckie: U.S. Supreme Court, Abrams v. United States
• Danette Harms: John F. Carter, Jr., Wild Young People
• Katherine Hartshorn: Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race
• Robert Alan Scates: U.S. Supreme Court, Buck v. Bell.

November 15:

• Joseph Whitecotton: Foner, Chapter 9, The New Deal and the Redefinition of Freedom.

November 17:

• Douglas Whitney: Foner, Chapter 10, Fighting for Freedom.

November 22: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS

November 24: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS

November 29:

• Tyler Beason: Foner, Chapter 11, Cold War Freedom.

December 1:

• Madonna Scott: Foner, Chapter 12, Sixties Freedom.

December 6:

• Burns Barr: U.S. Supreme Court, Engel v. Vitale
• Charles Wayne Bush: U.S. Supreme Court, Brandenburg v. Ohio.

• Steven Ellis: December 8: Foner, Chapter 13, Conservative Freedom.

December 13: FINAL EXAM