Toolbox: The Triumph of Nationalism / The House Dividing



Hickory High School
2002 Summer Seminar
June 24-28, 2002

Scholars    Daniel S. Dupre, Dept of History, Univ. of North Carolina-Charlotte
Kimberly J. Hartman, School of Education, Univ. of North Carolina-Charlotte
Gregory A. Wickliff, Dept. of English, Univ. of North Carolina-Charlotte
Sessions   
I.   Culture of the Common Man          June 24
II.   The Cult of Domesticity June 25
III.   Religion June 26
IV.   Expansion June 27
V.   America in 1850 June 28

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I. Culture of the Common Man Location pp.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885, Ch. 21-22 Common Man, Text 2 12
The Boston Mechanics' and Laborers' Mutual Benefit Association
  On the formation of its cooperative society, 1845
The Workingman's Committee of Philadelphia
  On the state of public instruction in Pennsylvania, 1830		 Common Man, Text 4 3
Richard Allen, Confession of John Joyce, 1808, selection
David Walker, David Walker's Appeal, 1830, excerpt		 Common Man, Text 5 14
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," 1832, publ. 1851 Common Man, Text 6 12
James Fenimore Cooper, The American Democrat: A Treatise on Jacksonian Democracy, 1838, selections Common Man, Text 7 13
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841, excerpts Common Man, Text 8 10
John C. Calhoun, "A Disquisition on Government," 1851, excerpts Common Man, Text 9 6
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Sections 1-15, in Leaves of Grass, 1855 Common Man, Text 10 9
 
II. The Cult of Domesticity Location pp.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "The Angel over the Right Shoulder," 1852 Domesticity, Text 1 6
Caroline Gilman, "The Planter's Bride," Ch. 35 in Recollections of a Southern Matron, 1838/1852 (reading from 1852 ed.) Domesticity, Text 2 5
Catharine Beecher, "Peculiar Responsibilities of American Women," Ch. 1 in A Treatise on Domestic Economy, 1841 Domesticity, Text 3 10
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861, Ch. 5-7, 10-11, 14-17 Domesticity, Text 4 35
Godey's Lady's Book, 1850 (six issues) Domesticity, Text 6 ~8
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Address known as "Seneca Falls Address," 1848 Domesticity, Text 8 15
 
III. Religion Location pp.
Philip Freneau, "On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature," 1815 Religion, Text 1 1
*William Cullen Bryant, "Thanatopsis," 1817 *Added Text - Web site 1
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835/1840, three sections from Vol. I, Ch. 17; read in this order: Sections 6, 5, 4 Religion, Text 3 10
*Frances Trollope, "Camp-Meeting," Ch. 15 of Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832 *Added Text - PDF file 6
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, 1845, Appendix Religion, Text 4 6
George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South; or, The Failure of Free Society, 1854, Ch. 6, 8 Religion, Text 5 6
Charles Colcock Jones, The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States, 1842, Part III: Ch. 1, 4 Religion, Text 6 15
Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854, second half of Ch. 2: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" Religion, Text 7 6
Documents relating to the Mormon migration:
  -Extermination order of the Missouri governor, 1838
  -Verse in letter of Martha Haven, 1846
  -Brigham Young et al., Second Great Epistle, 1849		 Religion, Text 8 4
 
IV. Expansion Location pp.
Hezekiah Niles, "Great National Interests," Niles' Register, October 21, 1826, excerpts Expansion, Text 2 8
Elias Boudinot, "An Address to the Whites," May 26, 1826 Expansion, Text 3 7
Lewis Cass, "Removal of the Indians," North American Review, January, 1830, excerpts Expansion, Text 4 8
James Glover Baldwin, The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches, 1854, excerpts Expansion, Text 5 6
*Washington Irving, A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker, Book I, Ch. 5. [Univ. of Virginia Library: Electronic Text Center] *Added Text - Web site 3
George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South; or, The Failure of Free Society, 1854, Ch. 5, "Negro Slavery" Expansion, Text 6 10
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Ch. 1: "Economy," excerpts Expansion, Text 7 24
 
V. America in 1850 Location pp.
John C. Calhoun, Speech in the U.S. Senate on the Clay Compromise Measures, March 4, 1850 America 1850, Text 1 5
William Henry Seward, Speech in the U.S. Senate, March 11, 1850 America 1850, Text 3 16
Henry Clay, "General Review of the Debate on the Compromise Bills," Speech in the U.S. Senate, July 22, 1850 America 1850, Text 4 4
Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience," 1848 America 1850, Text 5 19
*Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, 1852, Ch. 9: "In Which It Appears that a Senator is but a Man." [University of Virginia Library: Electronic Text Center] *Added Text - Web site 13
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "The Two Altars, or Two Pictures in One," 1851 America 1850, Text 6 10
*The Massachusetts Teacher, Editorial: "Immigration/Emigration," October 1851 *Added Text - PDF file 5
Frederick Douglass, "What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July?" July 5, 1852 America 1850, Text 7 18
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