History 4620/6620: Colonial America

Fall 2008

Suggested Background Readings (optional)

As noted in the Course Requirements there are no required textbooks or supplementary readings. If you feel the need for more factual material than is being provided by the lectures or your class projects, you may read from several works that have been placed in the Reserve Room of McWherter Library. One is a standard textbook: David Hawke, The Colonial Experience. The other two are collections of documents: Jack P. Greene, Settlements to Society: 1584-1763, and Jack P. Greene, Colonies to Nation: 1763-1789. The readings suggested below are designed to parallel closely the material presented in the lectures.

August 26, 28

Hawke: pp. 1-121
Greene/1: 1, 2, 3A, 5, 6, 7; 3C, 8, 9

September 2, 4

Hawke: pp. 123-164
Greene/1: 4A, 10; 3B, 11, 12, 13; 4B, 14, 15, 16

September 9, 11

Hawke: pp. 207-274, 315-333, 361-398
Greene/1: 20, 21; 18B, 22; 18A, 19, 23, 24, 26; 35; 30; 58, 59

September 16, 18

Hawke: pp. 353-358, 398-414
Greene/1: 17, 27, 40, 41; 28, 29, 31, 32; 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57

September 23, 25

Hawke: pp. 517-531
Greene/2: 1, 2A, 2B

September 30, October 2

Hawke: pp. 531-567
Greene/2: 2C, 2D, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

October 7, 9

Hawke: pp. 568-596
Greene/2: 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

October 16

[October 14 is Fall Break - no class that day]

Hawke: pp. 599-640
Greene/2: 42, 43, 44, 45, 46

October 21, 23

No reading assignment

October 28, 30

Hawke: pp. 288-291
Greene/1: 33, 34, 36, 37, 42, 43

November 4, 6

Hawke: pp. 301-305, 417-437
Greene/1: 48, 49, 50

November 11, 13

Hawke: pp. 277-285, 291-293, 437-442; 469-496; 293-296; 442-447; 305-309, 453-458; 298-301, 447-453
Greene/1: 45, 46, 47

November 18

Hawke: pp. 285-288, 458-463

November 20, 25; December 2

[November 27 is Thanksgiving - no class that day]

No reading assignment