Gender
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
Manliness and Civilization
Coming on Strong
Race/Ethnicity
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
Manliness and Civilization
Playing Indian
All the World's a Fair
Monitored Peril
The Body
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
Manliness and Civilization
Coming on Strong
Celebrity
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Sam Patch
E. Pluribus Barnum
Fluidity of Culture
Playing Indian
In the Name of War
Sports
Manliness and Civilization
Coming on Strong
Transnationalism
All the World's A Fair
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Youth Culture
Golden State, Golden Youth
Cycle of Outrage
Space and Place
Golden State, Golden Youth
All the World's a Fair
Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight
Horrible Prettiness
Mass Media
Understanding the Media
Monitored Peril
Authenticity
Creating Country Music
Playing With Fraud in the Age of Barnum (not on Janet's list)
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Cultural Memory
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Playing Indian
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
American Civilization: People
John Smith (1580-1631) - Helped establish Jamestown, VA via Virginia Company of London
Thomas Hooker (1586-1647) - Left Massuchessetts Bay Colony to go settle Connecticut
John Winthrop (1587-1649) - Led English Puritans to New World; became governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
William Bradford (1590-1657) - Leader of Plymouth colony in Massachusetts; sailed over on Mayflower with the rest of the Pilgrims ("separatists"); writer of Mayflower Compact
Roger Williams (1603-1683) - Theologian who helped create Rhode Island; believed in tolerance, and in separation of church and state
King Philip/Metacom (1639-1676) - Sachem of Wampanoag; leader of King Philip's War - war with Southern New England
Samuel Parris (1653-1720) - Minister of Salem Village; big leader of Salem Witch Trials; very rigid and egotistical; not very well-liked
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) - Son of Increase Mather; very influential Puritan preacher; wrote tons of books and pamphlets; very concerned about the second and third generations of Puritans falling away from original Puritan mission in America - advised them to stay the course; friends with judges in Salem Witch Trials
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741);
very interested in nature; very influenced by John Locke - "I know things through my senses;" leading preacher of the Great Awakening - all about "bodily effects;" very influenced by Newton as well; his followers became known as New Light Calvinists
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) - Wrote Common Sense (1776), etc.
John Adams (1736 - 1826) Second U.S. president, first U.S. Vice President; represented Continental Congress in Europe; opposed Stamp Act of 1765;
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) - Third U.S. President; primary author of Declaration of Independence; promoted republicanism and yeoman farmer ideal; Louisiana Purchase; influenced by Enlightenment; favored states rights and wanted limited federal government; died on Fourth of July - and so did John Adams
Abigail Adams (1755-1818) - Wife of John Adams; known for giving him lots of advice when he was in Europe representing Continental Congress - "remember the ladies"; advocate of married women's property rights and women's education
Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) - Physician and writer; one of the signers of Declaration of Independence; opponent of slavery and capital punishment; consulted Thomas Paine on writing of Common Sense; founded Dickinson College; believed in right to medical freedom; influenced development of psychiatry
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) - Seventh U.S. President; shaped Democratic Party; "Old Hickory;" first president associated with the frontier as he was based in Tennessee; a general in War of 1812; followed Jefferson as a supporter of the "agricultural republic;" killed the Second Bank of the United States; signed Indian Removal Act of 1830
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) - Presbyterian minister and leader of Second Great Awakening; temperance guy too; was against abolitionism
Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) Presbyterian minister; early advocate of dietary reform and vegetarianism and temperance; invented Graham bread in 1829; main goal was to curb lust; was against additives in bread - butchers and commercial bread makers often rioted when he spoke
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878) - Daughter of Lyman Beecher; sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe; sister of Henry Ward Beecher and Charles Beecher (famous Congregationalist ministers); opened Hartford Female Seminary in 1823; believed women and not men should be educators
William Lloyd Garrison (1805- 1879) Abolitionist and editor of radical abolitionist paper The Liberator; reformer; supported temperance and women's suffrage
Louis Agassiz (1807 - 1873) First guy to mention the Ice Age
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Sixteenth President of U.S.; Republican; Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
Orson Fowler (1809 - 1887) Phrenologist who edited and published American Phrenological Journal from 1838-42; wrote lots of self-improvement books; popularized Octagon house
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English guy; natural selection; evolution
Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860) Transcendentalist and Unitarian minister; an abolitionist and temperance guy too, and believed in prison reform
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) English philosopher who came up with all-encompassing concept of evolution; coined "survival of the fittest;"
Frances Willard (1839 - 1898) Temperance reformer and suffragist; president of WCTU; really into bicycle riding
G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924) American psychologist into childhood studies; founded American Journal of Psychology, and was first president of the APA
Charles Sanders Pierce (1839-1914) Scientist, philosopher, and mathematician; one of founders of Pragmatism; wrote about logic and semiotics
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) Jurist who served on Supreme Court from 1902-1932; fought for the North in the Civil War
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher; fairly sick as a kid; one of founders of Pragmatism;
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) Sociologist and economist; Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
John Dewey (1859-1952) Philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer; one of founders (along with Charles Sanders Pierce and William James) of Pragmatism; one of the founders of the New School for Social Research; hated dichotomy, and was especially against idea of mind/body split; wanted to unite mind and body in education; used cooking to teach science in schools; believed skills students learned should be integrated into their daily lives; Progressive education was largely tossed aside during Cold War as U.S. had new obsession with scientific education; considered a public intellectual
Jane Addams (1860-1935) First woman to be awarded Nobel Peace Prize; founded Hull House in 1889, which included a night school, coffeehouse, gymnasium, music school, girls club, etc
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) Politician and lawyer; Scopes Trial guy; one of the most popular orators in U.S.; devout Presbyterian; Populist leader; fought trusts and big banks; hardcore anti-Darwinist
Luther Gulick (1865 - 1918) P.E. instructor and advocate of the play movement; founder of Camp Fire Girls; served as president of the Playground Association of America
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) American anthropologist
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Poet, novelist, and writer big in the Harlem Renaissance
Malcolm X (1925-65) Black muslim and speaker for Nation of Islam;
Thomas Hooker (1586-1647) - Left Massuchessetts Bay Colony to go settle Connecticut
John Winthrop (1587-1649) - Led English Puritans to New World; became governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
William Bradford (1590-1657) - Leader of Plymouth colony in Massachusetts; sailed over on Mayflower with the rest of the Pilgrims ("separatists"); writer of Mayflower Compact
Roger Williams (1603-1683) - Theologian who helped create Rhode Island; believed in tolerance, and in separation of church and state
King Philip/Metacom (1639-1676) - Sachem of Wampanoag; leader of King Philip's War - war with Southern New England
Samuel Parris (1653-1720) - Minister of Salem Village; big leader of Salem Witch Trials; very rigid and egotistical; not very well-liked
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) - Son of Increase Mather; very influential Puritan preacher; wrote tons of books and pamphlets; very concerned about the second and third generations of Puritans falling away from original Puritan mission in America - advised them to stay the course; friends with judges in Salem Witch Trials
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741);
very interested in nature; very influenced by John Locke - "I know things through my senses;" leading preacher of the Great Awakening - all about "bodily effects;" very influenced by Newton as well; his followers became known as New Light Calvinists
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) - Wrote Common Sense (1776), etc.
John Adams (1736 - 1826) Second U.S. president, first U.S. Vice President; represented Continental Congress in Europe; opposed Stamp Act of 1765;
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) - Third U.S. President; primary author of Declaration of Independence; promoted republicanism and yeoman farmer ideal; Louisiana Purchase; influenced by Enlightenment; favored states rights and wanted limited federal government; died on Fourth of July - and so did John Adams
Abigail Adams (1755-1818) - Wife of John Adams; known for giving him lots of advice when he was in Europe representing Continental Congress - "remember the ladies"; advocate of married women's property rights and women's education
Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) - Physician and writer; one of the signers of Declaration of Independence; opponent of slavery and capital punishment; consulted Thomas Paine on writing of Common Sense; founded Dickinson College; believed in right to medical freedom; influenced development of psychiatry
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) - Seventh U.S. President; shaped Democratic Party; "Old Hickory;" first president associated with the frontier as he was based in Tennessee; a general in War of 1812; followed Jefferson as a supporter of the "agricultural republic;" killed the Second Bank of the United States; signed Indian Removal Act of 1830
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) - Presbyterian minister and leader of Second Great Awakening; temperance guy too; was against abolitionism
Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) Presbyterian minister; early advocate of dietary reform and vegetarianism and temperance; invented Graham bread in 1829; main goal was to curb lust; was against additives in bread - butchers and commercial bread makers often rioted when he spoke
Catherine Beecher (1800-1878) - Daughter of Lyman Beecher; sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe; sister of Henry Ward Beecher and Charles Beecher (famous Congregationalist ministers); opened Hartford Female Seminary in 1823; believed women and not men should be educators
William Lloyd Garrison (1805- 1879) Abolitionist and editor of radical abolitionist paper The Liberator; reformer; supported temperance and women's suffrage
Louis Agassiz (1807 - 1873) First guy to mention the Ice Age
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Sixteenth President of U.S.; Republican; Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
Orson Fowler (1809 - 1887) Phrenologist who edited and published American Phrenological Journal from 1838-42; wrote lots of self-improvement books; popularized Octagon house
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English guy; natural selection; evolution
Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860) Transcendentalist and Unitarian minister; an abolitionist and temperance guy too, and believed in prison reform
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) English philosopher who came up with all-encompassing concept of evolution; coined "survival of the fittest;"
Frances Willard (1839 - 1898) Temperance reformer and suffragist; president of WCTU; really into bicycle riding
G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924) American psychologist into childhood studies; founded American Journal of Psychology, and was first president of the APA
Charles Sanders Pierce (1839-1914) Scientist, philosopher, and mathematician; one of founders of Pragmatism; wrote about logic and semiotics
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) Jurist who served on Supreme Court from 1902-1932; fought for the North in the Civil War
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher; fairly sick as a kid; one of founders of Pragmatism;
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) Sociologist and economist; Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
John Dewey (1859-1952) Philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer; one of founders (along with Charles Sanders Pierce and William James) of Pragmatism; one of the founders of the New School for Social Research; hated dichotomy, and was especially against idea of mind/body split; wanted to unite mind and body in education; used cooking to teach science in schools; believed skills students learned should be integrated into their daily lives; Progressive education was largely tossed aside during Cold War as U.S. had new obsession with scientific education; considered a public intellectual
Jane Addams (1860-1935) First woman to be awarded Nobel Peace Prize; founded Hull House in 1889, which included a night school, coffeehouse, gymnasium, music school, girls club, etc
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) Politician and lawyer; Scopes Trial guy; one of the most popular orators in U.S.; devout Presbyterian; Populist leader; fought trusts and big banks; hardcore anti-Darwinist
Luther Gulick (1865 - 1918) P.E. instructor and advocate of the play movement; founder of Camp Fire Girls; served as president of the Playground Association of America
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) American anthropologist
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Poet, novelist, and writer big in the Harlem Renaissance
Malcolm X (1925-65) Black muslim and speaker for Nation of Islam;
Cultural Geography: Possible Classes and Books
Gender:
Putting Women In Place (Great overview of connection between gender and place; well-written and accessible and great intro for undergrads)
Race/Ethnicity:
Sidewalk
Environment:
Changes in the Land
"The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492" - Denevan
Suburbia:
Building Suburbia
Behind the Gates
Suburban Nation
Urbanism:
Sidewalk
Gay New York
Private vs. Public Space:
Brave New Neighborhoods
Behind the Gates
City of Quartz
Sidewalk
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Gay New York
Labor and Capitalism:
The Lie of the Land
Mobility/Transgression:
In Place/Out of Place
Putting Women In Place
Country of Exiles (as example of conservative view of those who hate free-flowing movement and its implications of "placelessness;" is this a valid point? Does free flow and cosmopolitanism destroy "real place?")
Sidewalk
Memory:
Shadowed Ground
The Past is a Foreign Country (on this list?)
Regionalism:
All Over the Map
The Middle West
Lure of the Local
Class:
Sidewalk
Putting Women In Place (Great overview of connection between gender and place; well-written and accessible and great intro for undergrads)
Race/Ethnicity:
Sidewalk
Environment:
Changes in the Land
"The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492" - Denevan
Suburbia:
Building Suburbia
Behind the Gates
Suburban Nation
Urbanism:
Sidewalk
Gay New York
Private vs. Public Space:
Brave New Neighborhoods
Behind the Gates
City of Quartz
Sidewalk
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Gay New York
Labor and Capitalism:
The Lie of the Land
Mobility/Transgression:
In Place/Out of Place
Putting Women In Place
Country of Exiles (as example of conservative view of those who hate free-flowing movement and its implications of "placelessness;" is this a valid point? Does free flow and cosmopolitanism destroy "real place?")
Sidewalk
Memory:
Shadowed Ground
The Past is a Foreign Country (on this list?)
Regionalism:
All Over the Map
The Middle West
Lure of the Local
Class:
Sidewalk
Friday, April 4, 2008
American Civilization List: Possible Classes and Books
Gender:
Catherine Beecher
Beyond Separate Spheres
Grounding of Modern Feminism
Women and Temperance
Individualism vs. Community:
A New England Town: The First Hundred Years (1970) By Kenneth Lockridge
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974) By Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
Perfectionism:
The Puritan Origins of the American Self (1975) By Sacvan Bercovitch
Storming Heaven
American Jeremiad
Cities on a Hill
Race:
Changes in the Land (1983) By William Cronon
American Slavery, American Freedom (1975) by Edmund Morgan
War Without Mercy
Work and Leisure:
Methodology:
Changes in the Land (1983) By William Cronon [Wide array of sources - fossil records, travel narratives, natural science records, etc]
War Without Mercy
Amoskeag [Oral histories]
Environmental History:
Changes in the Land (1983) By William Cronon
Nature's Metropolis By William Cronon
Dust Bowl By Donald Worster
Resistance:
Roll Jordan Roll
Making of a New Deal
Eight Hours for What We Will
Catherine Beecher
Beyond Separate Spheres
Grounding of Modern Feminism
Women and Temperance
Individualism vs. Community:
A New England Town: The First Hundred Years (1970) By Kenneth Lockridge
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974) By Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
Perfectionism:
The Puritan Origins of the American Self (1975) By Sacvan Bercovitch
Storming Heaven
American Jeremiad
Cities on a Hill
Race:
Changes in the Land (1983) By William Cronon
American Slavery, American Freedom (1975) by Edmund Morgan
War Without Mercy
Work and Leisure:
Methodology:
Changes in the Land (1983) By William Cronon [Wide array of sources - fossil records, travel narratives, natural science records, etc]
War Without Mercy
Amoskeag [Oral histories]
Environmental History:
Changes in the Land (1983) By William Cronon
Nature's Metropolis By William Cronon
Dust Bowl By Donald Worster
Resistance:
Roll Jordan Roll
Making of a New Deal
Eight Hours for What We Will
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