Toolbox: The Triumph of Nationalism / The House Dividing



Wake County Public School System
2002 Summer Seminar
June 24-28, 2002

Scholars    Tom Lisk, Department of English, North Carolina State University
Stephen Middleton, Department of History, North Carolina State University
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.
Andrew Jackson, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States, July 10, 1832 edited excerpt from
Nancy Cope		 ~5
Thomas W. Dorr, An Address to the People of Rhode Island, 1834, excerpts Common Man, Text 3 2
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, "An Aristocrat and a Democrat," in The American Democrat, 1838 Common Man, Text 7
(pp. 11-13; last of
the four sections)		 3
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.
Caroline Gilman, "The Planter's Bride," Ch. 35 in Recollections of a Southern Matron, 1838 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 (chapters divided among participants) Domesticity, Text 4 ~10
ea.
Fanny Fern (Sara Payton Willis Parton), Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, 1852, selections Domesticity, Text 5 ~8
Godey's Lady's Book, six issues of 1850, selections Domesticity, Text 6 ~8
Rev. Theodore Parker, "Of the Public Function of Woman," 1853, second half Domesticity, Text 7 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
William Cullen Bryant, "To a Waterfowl," 1817		 Religion, Text 1 2
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835/1840, Vol. I, Ch. 17, Sections 6, 4, 5 (reading order) Religion, Text 3 10
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
*The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va., as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray, 1831 *Added Text - Web site
(scroll down to p. 7
to begin: "Confession")		 10
*Henry David Thoreau, "A Plea for Captain John Brown," Oct. 30, 1859 *Added Text - Web site 14
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.
Charles Sellers, "Land and Market," Ch. 1 of The Market Revolution, 1991, excerpts Expansion, Text 1 15
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
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852, Ch. 1: "In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity" Expansion, Text 8 9
 
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
Daniel Webster, Speech in the U.S. Senate, March 7, 1850 America 1850, Text 2 7
William Henry Seward, Speech in the U.S. Senate, March 11, 1850 America 1850, Text 3 16
*Salmon P. Chase, Speech in the U.S. Senate ("Union and Freedom, without Compromise"), March 26-27, 1850, excerpts *Added Text - PDF file 12
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
*Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Compromise and Other Matters," Ch. 6 of The Life of Franklin Pierce, 1852 *Added Text - Web site 8
*Commonwealth v. Aves, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1836 (summary) *Added Text - Web site 3
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "The Two Altars, or Two Pictures in One," 1851 America 1850, Text 6 19
*Charles Dickens, "Slavery," Ch. 17 of American Notes for General Circulation, 1868 (Dickens's trip occurred in 1842) *Added Text - Web site 15
Frederick Douglass, "What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July?" July 5, 1852 America 1850, Text 7 *16
*Text added by seminar consultants or participants.
*Reformatted page totals (single-spaced, 1" margins, 12-point type). Printout length of
 the Douglass speech from the site: 23, with wide margins or spacing.

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