Week 1 \u2013 Introduction to the Course \/ Introduction to the Atlantic<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 8\/24\/16 \u2013 Thinking digitally and Atlantically Week 2 \u2013 Conceptualizing Atlantic Peoples<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 8\/31\/16 \u2013 What\u2019s in a name? Friday \u2013 9\/2\/16<\/em> Week 3 \u2013 Atlantic Imaginations<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 9\/7\/16 \u2013 An Atlantic of the Mind (and whose mind?) Friday \u2013 9\/9\/16<\/em> Week 4 \u2013 Ships<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 9\/14\/16 \u2013 Spaces, ships and slavery Week 5 – Islands<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 9\/21\/16 \u2013 Sugar Islands Friday \u2013 9\/23\/16<\/em> Week 6 \u2013 Coasts and Rivers<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 9\/28\/16 \u2013 Liminal Spaces in European Empires Week 7 – Colonies<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 10\/5\/16 \u2013 Colonial Failures and Successes Friday \u2013 10\/7\/16<\/em> Week 8 – MIDTERM<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 10\/12\/16 \u2013 Midterm exam (in class)<\/p>\n Download the midterm from the course Titanium site.\u00a0 It is listed under October 10-October 16 and is labeled midterm.\u00a0 Answer the questions in a SEPARATE document.\u00a0 You can use whatever word processor you wish, but you MUST upload a .doc file.\u00a0 Make sure to upload your answer file by 11:20 on Wednesday the 12th.<\/p>\n During the exam, I will be in my office, and can be reached by phone – (657) 278-4940<\/p>\n Week 9 \u2013 Plantations \/ Public facing scholarship<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 10\/19\/16 \u2013 Experiencing Slavery Week 10 \u2013 Cities \/ Locating secondary sources<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 10\/26\/16 – What is an Atlantic City? Friday \u2013 10\/28\/16<\/em> Due on Titanium (click here to submit)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Week 11 – Empires \/ Locating primary sources<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 11\/2\/16 – Revolutions \/ locating primary sources \/ embedding primary sources in websites In-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n Week 12 – Households \/ Digital Exhibits<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 11\/9\/16 \u2013 The Atlantic and everyday lives \/ Omeka Friday \u2013 11\/11\/16<\/em> Due on Titanium (link here) by 5 PM on Friday<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Week 13 – Industry \/ Digital Maps<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 11\/16\/16 \u2013 Commodities \/ Mapwarper Friday \u2013 11\/18\/16<\/em><\/a> Week 14 \u2013 FALL BREAK \u2013 NO CLASS<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 15 \u2013 Ethnic Identities \/ Planning an Project<\/strong> Wednesday \u2013 11\/30\/16 \u2013 Ethnic Enclaves \/ Timeline Week 16 – Theories<\/strong> BY THE TIME WE MEET THIS WEEK<\/em> Wednesday \u2013 12\/7\/16 \u2013 Looking forward Week 1 \u2013 Introduction to the Course \/ Introduction to the Atlantic Monday \u2013 8\/22\/16 \u2013 Introduction to the course \/ What is the Atlantic? Readings due: Syllabus (in class) In-class assignment: Timeline Wednesday \u2013 8\/24\/16 \u2013 Thinking digitally and Atlantically Readings due: Audrey Watters. \u201cI Love My Label\u201d [T] AND Martha Hodes. \u201cFour Episodes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190299,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/190299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist410-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMonday \u2013 8\/22\/16 \u2013 Introduction to the course \/ What is the Atlantic?
\nReadings due: Syllabus (in class)
\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: Audrey Watters. \u201cI Love My Label\u201d<\/a> [T] AND Martha Hodes. \u201cFour Episodes in Re-Creating a Life\u201d<\/a> [T]\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n
\nMonday \u2013 8\/29\/16 \u2013 Setting the Scene
\nReadings due: The Atlantic World \u2013 Chapters 1 and 2
\nIn-class assignment: Timeline
\nReclaim Hosting Demo (bring computers to class)<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: James Merrell. \u201cSecond Thoughts on Colonial Historians and American Indians.\u201d The William and Mary Quarterly, 2012<\/a> [T]\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n
\n Assignment due: Have signed up for a domain through reclaim hosting<\/a>.
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\nMonday \u2013 9\/5\/16 \u2013 NO CLASS \u2013 LABOR DAY<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: John R. Gillis. Islands of the Mind<\/em> (chapter 2); Richard Grove. Green Imperialism<\/em> (introduction and parts of chapter 1) [T]<\/a>
\nIn-class assignment: Timeline
\nWordpress Demo (bring computers to class)<\/p>\n
\n Assignment due: Set up a wordpress site for this class; e-mail me the URL of the site.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n[SOMETIME DURING THE FIRST THREE WEEKS, PLAN TO COME SEE ME DURING OFFICE HOURS – book at http:\/\/shrouta.youcanbook.me]<\/a><\/p>\n
\n[RESPONSE POSTS BEGIN THIS WEEK]\nMonday \u2013 9\/12\/16 \u2013 An Iberian Atlantic World
\nReadings due: The Atlantic World \u2013 Chapter 3
\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: Stephanie Smallwood. \u201cAfrican Guardians, European Slave Ships and the Changing Dynamics of Power in the Early Modern Atlantic\u201d in The William and Mary Quarterly. Volume 64, Number 4, October 2007<\/a> [T]\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n
\nMonday \u2013 9\/19\/16 \u2013 Claiming Atlantic spaces
\nReadings due: The Atlantic World \u2013 Chapter 4
\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: Alberto Vierira. \u201cThe Sugar Economy of Madiera and the Canaries\u201d in Tropical Babylons<\/em> [T]<\/a>
\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n
\n Assignment due: Identification of three possible final project topics. These should be one or two sentences each, and include a special, temporal and thematic aspect. For example: nuns and religion in early Mexico.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nMonday \u2013 9\/26\/16 \u2013 Liminal Spaces in North America
\nReadings due: Andrew C. Lipman. \u201cMurder on the Saltwater Frontier: The Death of John Oldham\u201d in Early American Studies, Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2011<\/a> [T]\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: Lauren Benton. A Search for Sovereignty. Chapter 3 [T]<\/a>
\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n
\nMonday \u2013 10\/3\/16 \u2013 Labor Regimes
\nReadings due: The Atlantic World \u2013 Chapter 5
\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: The Jamestown Project.<\/a> Introduction AND George. E Brooks \u201cEcological Perspectives on Mande Population Movements, Commercial Networks and Settlement Patterns from the Atlantic Wet Phase to the Present\u201d History in Africa. Volume 16, 1989<\/a> [T]\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n
\n Assignment due: Identification of your final project topic. This should be one robust paragraph (250-350 words) describing one of the topics you proposed in week 5. You should give a few sentences of context (even if we haven\u2019t gotten to the topic yet in the course) as well as what you find interesting about this topic.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nMonday \u2013 10\/10\/16 \u2013 Midterm review
\nDue in class: Come to class with a list of main events, people or places you expect to see on the exam
\nIn-class assignment: Consolidate timeline<\/p>\n\n
\nMonday \u2013 10\/17\/16 \u2013 The Atlantic Slave Trade
\nReadings due: The Atlantic World \u2013 Chapter 6 AND Sidney Mintz. Sweetness and Power (<\/em>excerpts)<\/a> [T]\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: Michael Gomez. Exchanging Our Country Marks<\/em>. Chapter 5<\/a>
\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n
\nMonday \u2013 10\/24\/16 \u2013 Entanglements
\nReadings due: The Atlantic World \u2013 Chapters 7 and 8
\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: Jane Mangan. \u201cPotos\u00ed,\u201d in Places of Encounter: Time, Place, and Connectivity in World History<\/em> AND Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi and Liora Bigon \u201cCity Planning: Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 City Planning\u201d<\/a> [T]\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n
\n Assignment due: Identification of FIVE SOURCES – at least one additional book and at least three additional articles – that you will synthesize for your final project literature review.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMonday \u2013 10\/31\/16 \u2013 From empires to nations?
\nReadings due: NOTE CHANGE – WATCH HAMILTON’S AMERICA (LINK HERE<\/a>)<\/strong>
\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: NOTE CHANGE – Review Primary sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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\nMonday \u2013 11\/7\/16 \u2013 Entanglements again \/ Digital Narratives with WordPress (pages, slideshow, menus)
\nReadings due: Mary Beth Norton. “White Women’s Experiences in Early America”<\/a>
\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: Caterina Pizzigoni. The Life Within<\/em> (Chapter 5)<\/a>
\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n
\n Assignment due: Identification of 3-5 primary sources that will feature in your final project.\u00a0 You must identify where the digital home of the source is (i.e. in which digital collection, from which website) and where the physical item is held.\u00a0 Not including the latter will cause you to loose points.
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\nMonday \u2013 11\/14\/16 \u2013 Industrialism and global connections \/ Neatline
\nReadings due: The Atlantic World \u2013 Chapter 13
\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: Sven Beckert. \u201cEmancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Era of the American Civil War\u201d in The American Historical Review. 2004<\/a> [T]\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n
\n Assignment due: Draft of your final project historical context piece. This should be approximately 750 words, and should reference the secondary sources you identified earlier in the semester. These pieces should not summarize extant literature, but rather (I) identify the major debates within the literature, (II) explain why your primary sources help to understand some aspect of those debates and (III) make some argument about where the field needs to go next.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nMonday \u2013 11\/28\/16 \u2013 Slavery and identity \/ Twine
\nReadings due: The Atlantic World \u2013 Chapter 14
\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\n
\nReadings due: David M. Emmons. \u201cIrrepressible Conflicts\u201d in Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West<\/em>. [T]<\/a>
\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\n
\nMonday \u2013 12\/5\/16 \u2013 NO CLASS – SCHEDULE INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS<\/p>\n
\n Assignment due: Prototype of your final project (shared via the course blog)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nReadings due: Readings due: David Armitage. \u201cThree Concepts of Atlantic History\u201d<\/a> AND Bernard Bailyn \u201cThe Idea of Atlantic History\u201d <\/a>[T] AND Laurent Dubois.\u00a0 “Atlantic Freedoms”<\/a>
\nIn-class assignment: Revise timeline
\nLINK TO YOUR FINAL PROJECT MUST BE POSTED TO THE COURSE BLOG BY THE END OF FINALS PERIOD. NO LATE SUBMISSIONS OF THE FINAL WILL BE PERMITTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
![Another version of the Boston Massacre Print<\/a><\/li>\nThomas Jefferson to the Marquis de Lafayette (images of the original<\/a>) (read the text here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\nWeek 12 – Households \/ Digital Exhibits<\/strong>\nMonday \u2013 11\/7\/16 \u2013 Entanglements again \/ Digital Narratives with WordPress (pages, slideshow, menus)\nReadings due: Mary Beth Norton. “White Women’s Experiences in Early America”<\/a>\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\nWednesday \u2013 11\/9\/16 \u2013 The Atlantic and everyday lives \/ Omeka\nReadings due: Caterina Pizzigoni. The Life Within<\/em> (Chapter 5)<\/a>\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\nFriday \u2013 11\/11\/16<\/em>\n Assignment due: Identification of 3-5 primary sources that will feature in your final project.\u00a0 You must identify where the digital home of the source is (i.e. in which digital collection, from which website) and where the physical item is held.\u00a0 Not including the latter will cause you to loose points.\n<\/em><\/p>\nDue on Titanium (link here) by 5 PM on Friday<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nWeek 13 – Industry \/ Digital Maps<\/strong>\nMonday \u2013 11\/14\/16 \u2013 Industrialism and global connections \/ Neatline\nReadings due: The Atlantic World \u2013 Chapter 13\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\nWednesday \u2013 11\/16\/16 \u2013 Commodities \/ Mapwarper\nReadings due: Sven Beckert. \u201cEmancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Era of the American Civil War\u201d in The American Historical Review. 2004<\/a> [T]\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\nFriday \u2013 11\/18\/16<\/em><\/a>\n Assignment due: Draft of your final project historical context piece. This should be approximately 750 words, and should reference the secondary sources you identified earlier in the semester. These pieces should not summarize extant literature, but rather (I) identify the major debates within the literature, (II) explain why your primary sources help to understand some aspect of those debates and (III) make some argument about where the field needs to go next.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nWeek 14 \u2013 FALL BREAK \u2013 NO CLASS<\/strong><\/p>\nWeek 15 \u2013 Ethnic Identities \/ Planning an Project<\/strong>\nMonday \u2013 11\/28\/16 \u2013 Slavery and identity \/ Twine\nReadings due: The Atlantic World \u2013 Chapter 14\nIn-class assignment: Timeline<\/p>\nWednesday \u2013 11\/30\/16 \u2013 Ethnic Enclaves \/ Timeline\nReadings due: David M. Emmons. \u201cIrrepressible Conflicts\u201d in Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West<\/em>. [T]<\/a>\nIn-class assignment: Primary source<\/p>\nWeek 16 – Theories<\/strong>\nMonday \u2013 12\/5\/16 \u2013 NO CLASS – SCHEDULE INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS<\/p>\nBY THE TIME WE MEET THIS WEEK<\/em>\n Assignment due: Prototype of your final project (shared via the course blog)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nWednesday \u2013 12\/7\/16 \u2013 Looking forward\nReadings due: Readings due: David Armitage. \u201cThree Concepts of Atlantic History\u201d<\/a> AND Bernard Bailyn \u201cThe Idea of Atlantic History\u201d <\/a>[T] AND Laurent Dubois.\u00a0 “Atlantic Freedoms”<\/a>\nIn-class assignment: Revise timeline\nLINK TO YOUR FINAL PROJECT MUST BE POSTED TO THE COURSE BLOG BY THE END OF FINALS PERIOD. NO LATE SUBMISSIONS OF THE FINAL WILL BE PERMITTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Week 1 \u2013 Introduction to the Course \/ Introduction to the Atlantic Monday \u2013 8\/22\/16 \u2013 Introduction to the course \/ What is the Atlantic? 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