HIST 415 Jeffersonian-Jacksonian America
Below are the handouts and guides related to this class (left column). All online readings (left and right column) are available either through a direct link, the WSUV Library Electronic Reserves system, or America: History and Life as indicated.
Course Handouts:
Syllabus: HIST415SylS12.pdf
Writing Guide: Fountain Writing Guide vJ2.pdf
Citation Guide: Fountain Citation Guide vj2.pdf
Primary Documents:
• Alexander Hamilton, “‘In a Choice of Evils... Jefferson is in Every View Less Dangerous than Burr’: Alexander Hamilton to Harrison Gray Otis on the Deadlocked Presidential Election of 1800,” OAH Magazine of History 18, no. 5 (2004): 54-57. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Thomas Jefferson, First Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 8, 1801
• Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes, Mar. 30, 1802
• Louisiana Purchase, Apr. 30, 1803
• Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves, Mar. 2, 1807
• Amendments to the Constitution Proposed by the Hartford Convention, Dec. 1814
• Treaty of Ghent, Dec. 24, 1814
• John C. Calhoun, South Carolina Exposition and Protest, Dec. 19, 1828
• Andrew Jackson, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1829
• Andrew Jackson, Proclamation Regarding Nullification, Dec. 10, 1832
• Andrew Jackson, "Specie Circular" (Circular to Receivers of Public Money), July 11, 1836
Assigned Articles & Chapters:
• James Taylor Carson, “'The Obituary of Nations': Ethnic Cleansing, Memory, and the Origins of the Old South,” Southern Cultures 14, no. 4 (2008): 6-31. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Richard Carwardine, “Evangelicals, Whigs and the Election of William Henry Harrison,” Journal of American Studies 17, no. 1 (1983): 47-75. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Patricia Cline Cohen, "Snow in April," in The Murder of Helen Jewett (New York: Knopf, 1998), 3-19. (access via WSUV eReserves)
• Thomas P. Dunning, “The Adventures of Patriot Hunters: Danger, Memory, Place, and Virtue at the Windmill,” Canadian Review of American Studies 29, no. 1 (1999): 109-121. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Richard E. Ellis, et al, “A Symposium on Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846,” Journal of the Early Republic 12, no. 4 (1992): 445-476. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Daniel Feller, “Politics and Society: Toward a Jacksonian Synthesis,” Journal of the Early Republic 10, no. 2 (1990): 135-161. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Michael J. Glennon, “The Case that Made the Court,” Wilson Quarterly 27, no. 3 (2003): 20-28. (access via America: History & Life database)
• William H. Goetzmann, "The Mountain Man as Jacksonian Man," American Quarterly 15, no. 3 (1963): 402-415. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Annette Gordon-Reed, “Did Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love Each Other?” American Heritage, 58, no. 5 (2008): 14-17. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Ari Helo and Peter Onuf, “Jefferson, Morality, and the Problem of Slavery,” William & Mary Quarterly 60, no. 3 (2003): 583-614. (access via America: History & Life database)
Assigned Articles & Chapters (continued):
• Reginald Horsman, “The Dimensions of an ‘Empire for Liberty’: Expansion and Republicanism, 1775-1825,” Journal of the Early Republic 9, no. 1 (1989): 1-20. (access via America: History & Life database)
• John Howe, “Politics in the Early Republic and the Election of 1800,” Reviews in American History 3, no. 3 (1975): 316-321. (access via America: History & Life database)
• John Lauritz Larson, “The Market Revolution in Early America: An Introduction,” OAH Magazine of History 19, no. 3 (May 2005): 4-7. (access via America: History & Life database)
• John F. Marszalek, "'Great God! Do you Mention Her Sacred Name?'" in The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson’s White House, Louisiana Paperback. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000), 1-21. (access via WSUV eReserves)
• Stephen Mihm, "Confidence and the Currency," in A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 1-19. (access via WSUV eReserves)
• Michael A. Morrison, “Westward the Curse of Empire: Texas Annexation and the American Whig Party,” Journal of the Early Republic 10, no. 2 (1990): 221-249. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Simon Newman, “The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutionary Politics, Fries’ and Gabriel’s Rebellions, and the Fears of the Federalists,” Pennsylvania History 67, no. 1 (2000): 5-20. (access via America: History & Life database)
• J. M. Opal, “The Second - and Final? - Revolution,” Reviews in American History 33, no. 1 (2005): 15-22. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Jeffrey L. Pasley, “Politics and the Misadventures of Thomas Jefferson’s Modern Reputation: A Review Essay,” Journal of Southern History 72, no. 4 (2006): 871-908. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Lawrence A. Peskin, “Conspiratorial Anglophobia and the War of 1812,” Journal of American History 98, no. 3 (2011): 647-669. (access via America: History & Life database)
• W. J. Rorabaugh, “The Political Duel in the Early Republic: Burr v. Hamilton,” Journal of the Early Republic 15, no. 1 (1995): 1-23. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Claudio Saunt, "The Griersons," in Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 10-26. (access via WSUV eReserves)
• Charles Sellers, "Land and Market," in The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 3-33. (access via WSUV eReserves)
• Alan Taylor, "Introduction," in The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies (New York: Vintage, 2010), 3-14. (access via WSUV eReserves)
• Eugene S. Van Sickle, “Reluctant Imperialists: The U.S. Navy and Liberia, 1819-1845,” Journal of the Early Republic 31, no. 1 (2011): 107-134. (access via America: History & Life database)
• Ted Widmer, "Prologue," in Martin Van Buren (New York: Times Books, 2004), 1-18. (access via WSUV eReserves)
• Gordon S. Wood, “The Significance of the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic 8, no. 1 (1988): 1-20. (access via America: History & Life database)