Wednesdays, 6:15-8:45
Shaffer 202, Homewood Campus

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FIRST KIND: Visit the Archives Web site and discuss the document packet
Close Encounters of the First Kind, 1585-1767, MSA SC 2221-17
• Includes maps and documents relating to the first encounters of the English settlers and explorers with Native Americans. The objective is to introduce students to how explorers, settlers, and Native Americans reacted to, and learned from one another.

FROM SETTLEMENT TO COLONY, 1634-1715. Continue discussion of Close Encounters of the First Kind, 1585-1767. Discuss Charter, A Relation, Maryland ... at the Beginning, and begin discussion of  Doing Good to Posterity. Discussion notes due by email to the instructor the night before class.

THE FORGOTTEN MOTHERS OF MARYLAND: The Maternal Roots of the Free State. Illustrations. Discussion of remainder of Doing Good to Posterity,  Carr & Walsh, "The Planter's Wife."  If you have difficulty in reading the pdf hyperlink to Carr & Walsh, try this one.  Setting the Limits of Arbitrary Power: a play from documents about representative government in Maryland. Discussion notes due by email to the instructor the night before class.

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.

FROM PROVINCE TO STATE, 1765-1777 Review Brugger, Chapter 3. Discuss Document Packet: All the News, 1765-1775, MSA SC 2221-21
• 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.

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).

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.

MIDTERM EXAM: covers the document packets and reading through October 14.  This will be an open book exam with access to the web for composition and for web-based materials provided for each student.  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.

THE FUTILE SEARCH FOR CONCENSUS, 1833-1861, & BLOODYING THE MIDDLE GROUND, 1858-1867. Review article by 'Othello.' 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
• 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.

RESTORING EQUILIBRIUM, 1867-1896. Review Brugger, Chapter 7. Explore how Maryland presented itself on the "Great White Way," The Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893. Discussion notes due by email to the instructor the night before class.

A GOVERNMENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE?, 1870-1916. Review Brugger, Chapter 8. Continue to explore how Maryland presented itself on the "Great White Way," The Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893. Discussion notes due by email to the instructor the night before class.

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND ECONOMIC CHAOS, 1915-1939. Review Brugger, Chapters 9 & 10. Discuss "Balancing Budgets and Reforming State Government, 1915-1921" & "H.L. Mencken and Franklin Delano Roosevelt At the Gridiron Club, 1934." Discussion notes due by email to the instructor the night before class.

DEFINING CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES, 1935-1968. Review Brugger, Chapters 11 & 12. Discuss Document Packet From Segregation to Integration: The Donald Murray Case, 1935-1937, MSA SC 2221-1
• Concentrates on efforts to integrate higher education in Maryland from 1934 to 1937 with emphasis on Thurgood Marshall, Lillie May Jackson, William I. Gosnell, Charles Houston, and Donald Murray's successful attempt to integrate the University of Maryland Law School.
Discussion notes due by email to the instructor the night before class.

BIGGER AND BETTER?, SMALLER AND WORSE? GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY, 1968-1996 Review Brugger, Epilogue; Discuss Document Packet Is Baltimore Burning?, MSA SC 2221-12
• 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.

©Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse (instructor)

Office Hours by appointment
Phone: (o) 410-974-3869; (h) 410-467-6137

Internet Address: http://208.56.128.195
Email Address: edpapen@hotmail.com

Last update: October 8, 1998