Fall, 2006
Prof. Ira Berlin
Office: 2101 Francis Scott Key Hall

Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5 and by appointment  
Telephone: 405-4266  
Email: iberlin@umd.edu

 

History 156 Syllabus -- Fall 2006

Documents

1. John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charity, ca. 1630

2. John Winthrop, Remarks on Liberty, 1645

3. Harry x Quaduaquid To the Most Honorable Assembly of the State of Connecticut Conv'd at Hartford May 14, 1789.

“Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession” from Common Sense (1776)

4. James Madison, Federalist #10

5 . Andrew Jackson's Veto of Legislation Chartering the Bank of the United States, 1832

6. George Fitzhugh, Southern Thought

7. Abraham Lincoln, Speech to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, 17 January 1838

8. Abraham Lincoln, "Speech at New Haven, Connecticut" 6 March 1860

9. Abraham Lincoln, "Annual Message to Congress," 3 December 1861

10. Chairman of the Orangeburg, South Carolina, Commission on Contracts to the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner, Enclosing a Speech to the Freedpeople of Orangeburg District; and the Commissioner's Reply, June 12th., 1865.

Timeline of the development of slavery in the Chesapeake (pdf file)

"Skidmore, A Plan for Equalizing Property"

William Lloyd Garrison, July 4 1829 Address

Angelina Grimke Letter

Grimke Speech

First Lincoln-Douglas Debate,Ottawa, 21 Aug. 1858

Elizabeth Caty Stanton's 1848 Speech

Frederick Douglass "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"

Exercises

Exercise1-2006

Exercise3-2006

Study Guides

Study Guide for Dawley: Class and Community, chapters 1-4

Study Guide for Eric Foner, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America

Study Guide for Eric Foner, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America, Chapter 2

Study Guide for Fitzhugh, Southern Thought

Study Questions: Lockridge, A New England Town, Chapters 5 through 9

RemarksonLiberty

 

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