Schedule

Schedule of assignments (subject to change – check email for updates.)

Date	Primary reading	Secondary reading
19 Aug	Harriot, Briefe and True Report	Jehlen/Hulme
24 Aug	Cotton, God’s Promise	Field, “Peculiar Manuerance” Cronon, Changes in The Land (Selections)
26 Aug	Winthrop A Modell of Christian Charity	Winship, “The Most Glorious Church”
31 Aug	Winthrop, “A Short Story,” (preface only) Winthrop-Short Story  or Winthrop Short_Story_preface_from_Hall	Schutte-Such Monstrous Births (Anderson)
2 Sep	Hall, Introduction to The Antinomian Controversy";  New England Journal of Medicine, "NE's first recorded Hydatiform mole"	Egan, “Discipline and Disinfect" (Walker)
7 Sep	New Englands First Fruits	Bross, Dry Bones and Indian Sermons, (Camp)   Stevens, The Poor Indians (Blanchette)
9 Sep	Roger Williams, A Key	Field, "A Key to the Gate" (Neihaus)
14 Sep	Danforth, A Brief Recognition of New England's Errand into the Wilderness	Berkovitch, The American Jeremiad (Lindstedt)
16 Sep	Perry Miller, Miller, Errand into the Wilderness	Kaplan, “Left Alone with America” (Brown)
21 Sep	Anne Bradstreet, selected poems	Harold Love,  Scribal Publication Philip Round, By Nature and Custom Cursed  (Compton)
23 Sep	Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Compare the electronic edition to the pdf of the microfilm of the original.Rowlandson	Lepore, The Name of War (Jones)
28 Sep	Josselyn,NewEnglands_rarities_discovered	TBA
30 Sep	Ned Ward, Download Ward_Edward_A_trip_to_Jamaica_ Ward_Edward-A_trip_to_NewEngland ” A Trip to New England”  & “A Trip to Jamaica”	Hall, from “History of the Book in America” (Busby)
5 Oct	Mather, Nehemias Americanus Download Nehemiah and Wonders	Berkovitch, The Puritan Origins of the American Self (Pekalak)
7 Oct	Midterm.	(3 Oct Midterm deadline)
12 Oct Break	xx	xx
14 Oct	Jefferson et al, “Declaration”	Fliegelman, Declaring Independence (Blackwell)
19 Oct	Derrida, “Declarations of Independence”Download Derrida-Declarations	TBA
21 Oct	HabermasDownload Habermas-Public Sphere Encylopedia Article	Rice, Transformation of Authorship (Kapp)
26 Oct	Warner, Letters of the Republic	Calhoun, “Habermas”
28 Oct	Warner, cont	Field, “What’s Habermas got to do with it?”
2 Nov	Paine, Common Sense	Larkin, Bailyn, from Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Wetzel)
4 Nov	Paine, The Crisis	Foner
9 Nov	Tyler, The Contrast	Loughran, from The Republic in Print
11 Nov	Jefferson, from “Notes on the State of Virgina”	Looby, TBA
16 Nov	Foster, Coquette	Baym, “Melodramas” (Manci)
18 Nov	Foster, Coquette / The Boarding School	Kelley, from Learning to Stand and Speak
23 Nov	Foster, The Boarding School	Pettingill, “Sisterhood” (Farrow)
25 Nov Thanksgiving	xx
30 Nov	Tyler, Algerine Captive	Orrians
2 Dec	Tyler, Algerine Captive	Said, Orientalism