Hope Greenberg:
Graduate Portfolio
HST 296A: Community in Early America
Professor Jacqueline Carr
211Wheeler
House
Tel: 656-3533
E-mail:
jacqueline.carr@uvm.edu
Course
Description:
"This course examines the formation, development and nature of
community in pre-Civil War America. We will study the foundation and
development of specific communities and the evolution of community
institutions. Issues concerning family, gender, ethnicity, race,
deviancy, consumption and material culture, rural life, urban life, and
town planning will also be considered. The readings for this course
span almost forty years of scholarship beginning in the 1960s when the
study of community became a scholarly concern and pursuit, moving it
from a field of antiquarian local and genealogical history."
- Complete Syllabus
- Course Bibliography (plus paper
bibliography)
- Notes/Weekly Questions
- 1/19/05: Introduction (class
notes)
- 1/26/05: Powell, Puritan
Village (reading notes, class notes)
- 2/2/05: Sundry
articles (reading, class)
- 2/9/05: Wall, Fierce
Communion (reading, class)
- 2/16/05: Witchcraft: Demos, Nissenbaum, (reading, class)
- 2/23/05: Nash, Forging
Freedom, Chaps 1-4 (reading)
- 3/2/05: Nash, Forging Freedom,
Chaps 5-8 (reading)
- 3/9/05: Meet in Special Collections (a few leads)
- 3/16/05: Carr, After the
Siege (reading)
- 3/30/05: Tolbert, Constructing
Townscapes, Pt. I, (reading,
class)
- 4/6/05: Tolbert, Constructing
Townscapes, Pt. II (reading)
- 4/13, 20/05: Work on research
- 4/27/05: Schuyler, New Urban
Landscape
- Essay 1 (doc, html draft)
- Essay 2 (doc, html draft)
- Research Paper (Final: doc, pdf) (misc. materials)
Additional daily work, musings, questions, comments, resources:
(keyword: HST296A)
http://hopegreenberg.blogspot.com