Presentation Schedule
History 419: American Social and Intellectual History, Section 01
Fall 2006
August 23
Perri: John Cotton, The Devine Right to Occupy the Land (1630); John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630) and Little Speech on Liberty(1645); The Trial Of Anne Hutchinson (1637).
August 28
Perri: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630) and Little Speech on Liberty(1645); The Trial Of Anne Hutchinson (1637); Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (1772);Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny (1772)
Gregory Titus: Thomas Pain, Common Sense (1776).
August 30:
Perri: Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America (1775); Adam Smith, America and the Wealth of Nations (1776).
September 4: LABOR DAY
September 6:
Professor Gary Bugh: James Madison, Federalist #10 (1787-1788)
Gregory Titus: Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (1776)
Justin Smith: Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson on Slavery (1784)
Perri: Michael St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
September 11:
Russell Smith: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Jefferson and Adams on Aristocracy (1813).
September 13:
Perri:Daniel Webster, Against Universal Manhood Suffrage (1820)
Clinton Brown: George Bancroft, The Office of the People (1835).
September 18:
Chastity Houck: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835);
Brandon Martindale:John O’Sullivan, Manifest Destiny (1845).
September 20: Examination 1.
September 25:
Zachery Donaldson: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1844)
Christina Butler: Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Young American (1844).
September 27:
Tonya Comer: Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849)
Philip Dossey: Ramon Alvarez et. al., The Mexican View of the War (1850).
October 2:
Jonathon Douglas:George Bancroft, The Progress of Mankind (1854)
Keitric Washington: Frederick Douglass, What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July? (1852).
October 4:
Matthew Wright: Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
Emily Wafford: Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861).
October 9:
Tonya Comer: Alexander Stephens, Slavery and the Confederacy (1861)
Zachery Donaldson: B.M. Palmer and M.J. Raphall and Henry Ward Beecher, Fast Day Sermons (1861)
Matthew Wright: Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863).
October 11:
Tiffany McGee:Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)
Russell Sands: Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life (1900).
October 16:
David Gaskin: William Graham Sumner, What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)
Amanda Mitchell:Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).
October 18:
William Hunnicutt:Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
Teresa Hinderer: Horatio Storer, The Origins of the Insanity in Women (1865).
October 23:
Chastity Houck:U.S.Supreme Court, Bradwell v. The State of Illinois (1873)
Rachel Black: Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race (1920).
October 25:
Lois Gennings: IDA B. Wells, A Red Record (1895)
Russell Smith: Brooker T. Washington, Atlantic Exposition Address (1895)
Faith Green:W.E.B. Du Bois, Strivings of the Negro People (1887).
October 30:
Perri: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Niagara Movement (1905)
Justin Smith: U.S. Supreme Court, Lochner v. New York (1905).
November 1: Examination 2.
November 6:
Rachel Black: Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery (1914)
Jonathon Douglas:U.S. Supreme Court, Abrams v. United States (1919).
November 8:
Teresa Hinderer: Herbert Hoover, Relief Efforts (1931)
Tiffany McGee:Socialist Party, Socialist Party Platform, (1932);
Amanda Mitchell: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Four Freedoms (1941).
November 13:
Lois Gennings: Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947)
Christina Butler: J. Edgar Hoover, The Communist Menace (1947).
November 15:
William Hunnicutt: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (1961).
November 27:
David Gaskin:U.S. Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Philip Dossey: Sam J. Ervin and Others, The Southern Manifesto (1956).
November 29:
Faith Green: Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail (April 16, 1963)
Keitric Washington: Patrick Moynihan, The Negro Family (1965).
December 4:
Emily Wafford: Jimmy Carter, Energy and National Goals (1979)
Russell Sands: Ronald Reagan, Support for the Contras (1984).
December 6:
Keith Rigdon:Andrew Sullivan, This Is a Religious War: September 11 was Only the Beginning (October 7, 2001)
Keith Rigdon:George W. Bush, President Says Saddam Hussein Must Leave Iraq Within 48 Hours: Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation (March 17, 2003).
Note: Keith Rigdon, Zachery Donaldson have only signed up for one presentation.