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New Jersey and Delaware Valley History - 50:512:345 Spring 2014Professor Pfeuffer-SchererProfessor Dolores Pfeuffer-SchererOffice Hours: I will be in our classroom one hour prior to the start of class. I am also available after class or for pre-arranged meetings. Email: dolo@camden.rutgers.edu Course Philosophy: The goal of this course is to strengthen your knowledge on the subject and provide you with instruction in the skills of critical reading, analysis, and writing, all of which are necessary for your success at Rutgers University. The course centers on New Jersey, Philadelphia, and the surrounding area. We will explore historical events and issues with focuses on race, class, gender, and changes in the American nation, with the region as our backdrop. It is my hope that you come out of this class a stronger and more engaged reader and writer who can analyze sources with a critical eye. Expectations: I expect you to complete all readings and participate in class and online discussion forums. You are responsible for making up any missed work, which is worth less than its original value once the due date has passed. Missing two assignments will result in a failure of the course. This class involves a lot of discussion, participation is essential. How to College: Complete the required readings, finish all assignments, and be ready to participate. You need to engage the material, whether reading articles, documents, or listening to podcasts. Academic Honesty: Whenever you use a resource to gain information or ideas which are not general knowledge, you must provide documentation in order to give credit to the authors of the information and to allow anyone reading your paper to either check your research or read more of the work from which you are drawing. Citations are required when items of information or ideas are drawn from a source, when material is paraphrased, and when material is quoted directly. Incomplete documentation is called plagiarism. Plagiarism is theft. For additional information about Rutgers University policies relating to academic integrity, go to: your academic career and be extremely careful by citing your sources.Course Technology Statement: This course will use a Sakai e-Learning course-specific website. The information and activities you will encounter through and within this site are designed to help you connect what you are learning inside the physical space of our classroom with what you are learning outside of it. This site will be an important component of the course. You are expected to check for announcements on the site on a regular basis, use available resources, and participate as assigned. If you have problems using the site, let me know so that we can talk about how to solve them. Please observe general rules of netiquette whenever communicating with your class colleagues online.Robeson Library: The Paul Robeson Library provides you with a variety of informational resources, including databases and research guides. Librarians are available online and in person at the information desk to help you with research.The Learning Center: The Learning Center provides one-to-one tutoring assistance for writing, study strategies, test taking, and specific Rutgers University courses. To make a tutoring appointment, you should stop by the Learning Center in Armitage Hall or call (856) 225-6643Problems? Concerns? Help! Talk to me, I am accessible to meet with you and am available on email. It may take me 24 -- 48 hours to respond to your email, but I will always respond. Disabilities/Learning Differences: Federal Law requires all schools to accommodate students with disabilities or special requirements. If you require special arrangements, please notify me and provide documentation. Required Texts:Jeffrey A. Davis and Paul Douglas Newman, Pennsylvania History: Essays and Documents. New York: Prentice Hall/Pearson Publishing, 2010. ISBN# 0-205-70166-3Jeffrey M. Dorwart, Camden County, New Jersey: The Making of a Metropolitan Community, 1626 – 2000. . New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001. Paper ISBN# 0-8135-2958-1Additional articles, documents, podcasts as noted; more will be added in advance. Grading: Participation and attendance are crucial to obtain a high grade in the course as we will be discussing documents in class. The breakdown of the grades, totaling 100%, is as follows:History Site Paper/Web Analysis25%Research Paper, including presentation40%Participation20% Midterm Essay15%Course Schedule: January 23 – Course IntroductionJanuary 30 - Colonial New Jersey and Philadelphia: A Tale of Power, War, and PeopleREAD: Dorwart, Chapter 1 READ: Davis, Essays: Chapter One: Daniel K. Richter, “A Framework for Pennsylvania Indian History”; Chapter Two: Sally Schwartz, “William Penn and Toleration: Foundations of Colonial Pennsylvania.”Documents: Chapter One: “William Penn’s Letter to the Indians” (1681)Chapter Two: “Some Account of the Province of Pennsylvania” (1681) Website: Pennsbury Manor, on the sections, “History” and “The Manor.”February 6 -- “Those Pesky Quakers”: Women’s Rights and Abolitionist Roots? READ: Dorwart, Chapter 2READ: Davis Essay: Chapter Three: Katharine Gerbner, “We are Against the Traffik of Men-Body: The Germantown Quaker Protest of 1688 and the Origins of American Abolitionism.” READ: Jean Sonderlund, “Women’s Authority in Pennsylvania and New Jersey Quaker Meetings, 1680 – 1760.” The William and Mary Quarterly. Third Series, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 722-749Documents: NoneWebsites: Stenton, the Logan family home: Focus on the section “History, Collections, and Interpretation.”The John Woolman House/Memorial Association: on the sections “Who was John Woolman” and “Some of John Woolman’s Views”History Site/Web Analysis Paper Topics Due with preliminary bibliographyFebruary 13 – The Empire is Contested: Migration, The 7-Years’ War, a Burgeoning CityREAD: Dorwart, Chapter 3READ: Davis Essay: Chapter Four: Matthew C. Ward, “The ‘Peaceable Kingdom’ Destroyed: The Seven Years’ War and the Transformation of the Pennsylvania Back Country.”READ: Alison Olson, “The Pamphlet War Over the Paxton Boys” in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January/April, 1999. Document: Chapter 4, Benjamin Franklin, “An Account of the Paxton Boys’ Murder of the Conestoga Indians (1763). Podcast: “The Liberty Bell” 20 – “Don’t Tread on Me!”: Revolution, Anthony Wayne and the Franklins of PhiladelphiaREAD: Davis Essay, Chapter Five: Judith Van Bushkirk, “They Didn’t Join the Band: Disaffected Women in Revolutionary Pennsylvania” and Liam Riordan, “Identity and Revolution: Everyday Life and Crisis in a Delaware River Town.”READ: Jennifer Reed Fry, “’Extraordinary Freedom and Great Humility’: A Reinterpretation of Deborah Franklin” in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, April, 2003.Documents: Chapter 5 “The Tea Riots in Philadelphia” (1773)Short Article: The Greenwich Tea Party (NJ): History Site/Web Analysis Paper Due TodayFebruary 27 – Philadelphia as the Capital City, “George Washington Slept Here!” and the Controversy over Washington’s Home in PhiladelphiaREAD: Dorwart, Chapters 4 and 5.READ: Sharon Ann Holt, “Object Lessons: Race in the Park” found here:: Focus on: “History, “Slavery” “Project” and “In the News” (This is a lot of material, give yourself time here.)March 6 – Midterm ExamMarch 13 – Working session on research papersPreliminary bibliography due2 page research plan, objective, summary dueGiven the size of the class we will have individual paper sessions and well as a sharing session on your topics, sources, methodology. March 20 – Spring Break! Be safe and have fun. March 27 – Cradle of Liberty: Abolition, Ante-Bellum America, and the NJ Underground RailroadREAD: Davis, Essay, Chapter Nine, Charlene Mires, “Slavery, Nativism, and the Forgotten History of Independence Hall”READ: NJ’s Underground Railroad: Documents: Chapter 8, “An Antiabolitionist Meeting in Philadelphia” (1835) and Pennsylvania Hall Association, “The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall.” (1838)Podcasts: “Historic Haddonfield” and “Peter Mott House/Lawnside” : Why name it “The Liberty Bell” in 1830? April 3 – The Nation Divided: The Civil War and the Delaware ValleyREAD: Dorwart, Chapters 3 + 4READ: Melinda Lawson, "”A Profound National Devotion’: The Civil War Union Leagues and the Construction of a New National Patriotism.” Civil War History, Volume 48, Number 4, December 2002. (Available through Project Muse)Camp William Penn: Film, “Glory” (available through Rutgers library system, on hold)April 10 - The North and Reconstruction: The United States Centennial and Cultural Memory Recreated READ: Dorwart, Chapters 5 + 6READ: James P. Weeks, “A Different View of Gettysburg: Play, Memory, and Race at the Civil War’s Greatest Shrine.” Civil War History, Volume 50, Number 2, June 2004. (Project Muse)READ: Susanna W. Gold, “’Fighting it Over Again’: The Battle of Gettysburg at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition. Civil War History, Volume 54, Number 3, September 2008. Documents: “A Sennight of the Centennial” Atlantic Monthly, July 1876. Articles from the Philadelphia Public Ledger, 1876. 17 – Progressive Pennsylvania: The Workers vs The CapitalistsREAD: Dorwart, Chapter 7READ: Davis Essay, Chapter 12, Daniel Sidorick, “The ‘Girl Army’: The Philadelphia Shirtwaist Strike of 1909-1910.Article, Philip B. Scranton, “Philadelphia’s Industrial History: Context and Overview” 24 – Research Paper Rough Draft Peer Review SessionApril 30 -- Research Paper Presentations ................
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