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HIST 116

The American Revolution

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2010

Topics

  • Introduction: Freeman's Top Five Tips for Studying the Revolution
  • Being a British Colonist
  • Being a British American
  • "Ever at Variance and Foolishly Jealous": Intercolonial Relations
  • Outraged Colonials: The Stamp Act Crisis
  • Resistance or Rebellion? (Or, What the Heck is Happening in Boston?)
  • Being a Revolutionary
  • The Logic of Resistance
  • Who Were the Loyalists?
  • Common Sense
  • Independence
  • Civil War
  • Organizing a War
  • Heroes and Villains
  • Citizens and Choices: Experiencing the Revolution in New Haven
  • The Importance of George Washington
  • The Logic of a Campaign (or, How in the World Did We Win?)
  • Fighting the Revolution: The Big Picture
  • War and Society
  • Confederation
  • A Union Without Power
  • The Road to the Constitutional Convention
  • Creating a Constitution
  • Creating a Nation
  • Being an American: The Legacy of the Revolution

Readings

  • Bailyn, Bernard. Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence . New York: Knopf, 1990.
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  • Brown, Richard D., ed. Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791 . 2nd ed. Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning, 1999.
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  • Cray, Robert E. Jr., "Major John Andre and the Three Captors: Class Dynamics and Revolutionary Memory Wars in the Early Republic, 1780-1831," Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 17, No. 3. Autumn, 1997.
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  • Gross, Robert A. The Minutemen and Their World . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.
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  • Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist Papers . New York: Penguin, 1987.
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  • McDonnell, Michael. "Popular Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia: The Failure of the Minutemen and the Revolution from Below," Journal of American History, Vol. 85, No. 3. December, 1998.
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  • Paine, Thomas. Common Sense . New York: Penguin, 1982.
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  • Raphael, Ray. A People's History of the American Revolution . New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
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  • Schwartz, Barry. "George Washington and the Whig Conception of Heroic Leadership," American Sociological Review, Vol. 48, No. 1. February, 1983.
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  • Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution . New York: Knopf, 1992.
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  • Wood, Gordon S. The American Revolution: A History . New York: Modern Library, 2002. [optional]
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