Sumários

Jacksonian Democracy

22 Março 2024, 11:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Andrew Jackson and the second party system.

Populism, industrialization , immigration and labor politics. Panic of 1837. 

http://historyus19.blogspot.com/2024/03/hw-for-march-22-andrew-jackson-and-path.html

John Sullivan, “The Great Nation of Futurity” (1839). Manifest Destiny

Class by guest lecturer Edgardo M. Silva

Guidelines for final papers. John Quincy Adams and the transition to the Second Party System. F. Cooper and The Last of the Mohicans.

19 Março 2024, 11:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Guidelines for Final Papers: http://historyus19.blogspot.com/2024/03/guidelines-for-final-papers.html

John Quincy Adams and the transition to the 2nd party system; brief chronology - http://historyus19.blogspot.com/2024/03/chronology-1800-1845.html
Presentation on James Fenimore Cooper and the introduction to The Last of the Mohicans.

Lecture by Neil Larsen: Morbid Interiors, Basements, Living Rooms, and Gothic Domesticity in 19th C America

15 Março 2024, 11:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Lecture by Neil Larsen, the Gothic, the Secession War, and the morbid Southerner Chevalier ideals in chapter XVII of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, as well as in Poe's "The Black Cat."

The early 19th C: the First Party System and the printed discussion of the values of the Republic

12 Março 2024, 11:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

The Legal Documents: Articles of Confederation, Constitution, Bill of Rights (see Moodle).

Ratifying the constitution and the Federalist Papers (Hamilton, Madison, John Jay).
The Founding Fathers and George Washington's "Farewell Address" (1797)
The First Party System.
Jefferson's Presidency and the buying of Louisiana as the first constitutionalist breach of expansionism.
The Missouri Compromise (1820)

The Articles of Confederation; Jefferson and Hamilton cabinet debates. Midterm commentary.

8 Março 2024, 11:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Overview of the Articles of Confederation (1777-1781)

Jefferson and Hamilton cabinet debates (through the Musical Hamilton - https://historyus19.blogspot.com/2024/03/hamilton-and-jefferson-cabinet-debates.html
Midterm written exercise- commentary on one quotation by M. Rowlandson or by T. Paine.