Maryland
History from Colonial Times to the Present
CS 464.308
Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse, Instructor
Wednesdays, 6:15-8:45
Krieger 307, Homewood Campus
SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, September 6.
Wednesday, September 13.
Wednesday, September 20.
Wednesday, September 27.
FROM COLONY TO PROVINCE, 1715-1765. Review Brugger, Chapter
1 & Chapter 2. Explore Captain
Berry's Will. Review document packet Daily
Life in the New World, 1634-1715,MSA
SC 2221-1-3, which includes the Maryland Act of Toleration, 1649,
inventories of estates including Fowker Frizzle and Lydia Aaron, and a
discussion of documents relating to the career of the only person (a Jew)
prosecuted under the Toleration Act. Discussion notes due by
email to the instructor the night before class.
Wednesday, October 4.
FROM PROVINCE TO STATE, 1765-1777 Review Brugger, Chapter
3. Discuss Document Packet: All
the News, 1765-1775, MSA SC 2221-21
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Events leading to the American Revolution are seen through news reports
in the Maryland Gazette. Samuel Chase's broadside which the Gazette
refused to print is included. The newspapers are also an excellent source
for the study of eighteenth century life.
Discussion notes due by email to the instructor the night before class.
Wednesday, October 11.
FROM ONE TO ONE OF MANY, 1776-1833. Review Brugger Chapter
4 & Chapter 5. Discussion
notes due by email to the instructor the night before class.
Class will begin with a review of all reading in Brugger to date (through
Chapter 5), move to an introductory lecture in two parts, part I and part
II, that sets the context for the document packets. We will then
proceed to
discuss Document Packet From
Indignant Protest to Hesitant Revolutionaries: Maryland and the American
Revolution, 1765-1776,MSA
SC 2221-1-2
Includes issues of the Maryland Gazette at the time of the Stamp
Act Crisis. Also includes the account of the burning of the Peggy Stewart,
the Olive Branch Petition signed by three of Maryland's signers of the
Declaration of Independence, Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration
of Independence, and letters from a Maryland soldier at the Battle of Long
Island.
discuss Document Packet: Writing
It All Down: The Art of Constitution Making for the State and the Nation,
1776-1833, MSA SC 2221-4
Includes documents leading to the Maryland Declaration of Rights and
the first State Constitution, as well as those which relate to Maryland's
role in the creation and ratification of the proposed first twelve amendments
to the U.S. Constitution (two were never ratified). It traces the subsequent
definition of such individual rights as the right to hold office by non-Christians
as defined by constitutional amendment (the Jew Bill) and due process as
defined by the courts (Barron v. Baltimore).
Wednesday, October 18.
THE FUTILE SEARCH FOR CONSENSUS, 1833-1858. Review Brugger Chapter
6. Discussion notes due by email to the instructor the night before
class. Graduate Student bookreviews due.
Wednesday, October 25.
MIDTERM EXAM: covers the document packets and reading through October
18. This will be an open book exam with access to the web for composition
and for web-based materials. Consult the website
for details. Students should come prepared with a floppy disk
for submittal of the exam to the instructor in case access to the web and
email should fail. Distance learning students and those with prior
approval may take the exam at their own computers or an approved alternative
site. The exam will be posted on the website just prior to commencement
of class time.
Wednesday, November 1.
THE FUTILE SEARCH FOR CONCENSUS, 1833-1861, & BLOODYING THE MIDDLE
GROUND, 1858-1867. Read the speech
of Colonel Curtis Jacobs. See Introductory
lecture. Begin discussion of document packets "One
Soldier's War" & In
the Aftermath of 'Glory': Black Soldiers & Sailors from Annapolis Maryland,
1863-1918, MSA SC 2221-8
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Examines what happens to Black soldiers who survive the Civil War by tracing
their careers through public and private records. Includes maps, contemporary
accounts, census records, probate records, court depositions, and Federal
pension files. It relates the soldiers to the efforts to expand and then
restrict the suffrage ending with the voting rights cases of 1915 which
involved a Civil War soldier from Annapolis.
Discussion notes due by email to the instructor the night before class.
Wednesday, November 8.
Wednesday, November 15.
Wednesday, November 22 (HOLIDAY).
Wednesday, November 29.
Wednesday, December 6.
Wednesday, December 13.
BIGGER AND BETTER?, SMALLER AND WORSE? GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY, 1968-1996
Review Brugger, Epilogue; Discuss Document Packet Is
Baltimore Burning?, MSA SC 2221-12
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Includes newspaper and other accounts of the Cambridge riot of 1967, the
Baltimore riot of 1968, selections from Governor Agnew's papers relating
to both events including the Cambridge speech and subsequent trial of H.
Rap Brown, and the Goldseker Foundation report Baltimore 2000.
Discussion notes due by email to the instructor the night before class.
Wednesday, December 20.
FINAL EXAM. This will be a take
home exam. Students should be prepared to come to the last class with their
exam answers on a floppy disk in case email fails. It is preferred that
exams be written in Netscape Communicator or Netscape Gold editor, but
they can be in any other word processing format if that proves easier for
the student. All exams must be handed in or emailed to edpapen@flash.net
by 6:30 p.m. on December 20th.
©Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse (instructor)
Office Hours by appointment
Phone: (o) 410-260-6401; (h) 410-467-6137
Internet Address: teachers.md
Email Address: edpapen@flash.net
Last update: September 6, 1999