Reading Handout #1, U.S. History, Norfolk Academy

Readings Handout #1
Dr. Rezelman

Ok, here we go! This is the first of many reading handouts you will encounter in this class. Throughout the year we will be making extensive use of a variety of online databases that are available through Norfolk Academy's web site. (Click here to view the old web page's list of library resources.) To access these databases do the following:

	sign in to the school's web site;
	choose the "Student" portal from the column to the left;
	put your cursor over "Pages" in the top left;
	select "Online Library Resources" and then "Batten Library Resources."

Once you reach this page, click on the link to the appropriate database. If you do this from a computer on campus, you should be directed straight to the database. If you do this from home, you may be prompted to enter a login name and password. You can get these either from the handout I distributed in class or by accessing your e-mail, choosing "Public Folders" from the column on your left, selecting "Library Electronic Resource Passwords," and then double-clicking on the only message in the folder.

Though there are other databases that I will be introducing to you later in the year, the four main sources we will be using are:

American History

(referred to as "American History" below);

American National Biography

(referred to as "ANB" below);

Britannica Online: School Edition

(referred to as "EBO" below for "Encyclopedia Britannica Online");

Dictionary of American History

(referred to as "DAH" below);

(as I will explain in class, technically the DAH is an "e-book," not a
database, but in practice this will not affect you very much); and

United States at War

(referred to as "U.S. at War" below).

The readings below are listed in the (approximate) order we will be discussing them in class, and hence they are in the (approximate) order I will be assigning them to you as homework. They are grouped according to the same sub-sections that I use in the course outlines, and within each of those groups they are divided into three categories:

"Main Readings” are the most important ones and the ones I will probably be assigning in class on a periodic, usually daily, basis;

you will be periodically quizzed on these assignments in class; I will explain how this will work to you in more detail in class;

please note that often there are readings in this section on subjects which we will not have time to discuss in class, but which you will still be responsible for on the test; I am of course always happy to answer any questions you might have after you have read them;

"Suggested Readings” are those which I probably won’t formally assign and possibly quiz you on, but which I believe contain helpful additional information relating to things we have been talking about, or will talk about, in class;

doing some or all of the “suggested readings” is recommended to everyone, but especially to those of you who are trying for an A in this course;

reading assignments from this category can be an especially good way of catching up on material from a class or classes that you were absent for;

I recommend that you read “suggested readings” after we have already covered the relevant material in class; this way these readings reinforce the ideas that have already been introduced in class and expand your detailed knowledge of the particular subject; and, finally,

“A.P. Readings” are extra readings that I believe are especially important to read if you are thinking of taking the Advanced Placement U.S. History test in May;

of course the A.P. readings also serve as additional “suggested readings” and can be just as useful in relation to your performance in class.

As I say, I list the readings below in the order I intend to assign them, but I may change my mind as we go depending on how fast we end up going in class, so pay close attention to the reading assignments as I give them in class. I may end up skipping some assignments that I originally listed as "Main Readings," and I may end up assigning as mandatory some readings that were originally listed as "Suggested Readings" or "A.P. Readings." In short, listen carefully when I give you your reading assignments in class.

If I ever forget to give you the next reading assignment in class, I’m just going to give you two days worth of readings the following day, so my recommendation is to either a) remind me in class if I forget to tell you the next reading assignment, and/or b) just go ahead and read the next 5-8 pages or so from the “main readings.”

Ok, here we go! Don’t sweat it if you don’t remember each and every date and detail that you read, but if you find that you just “read” five pages and you don’t have any idea what it just said, back up and have another go at it! Just keep asking yourself: “what is the big picture here?” “What is the main idea the author is trying to convey?” If you just read a three-page biography of someone, look up when you’re done and see if you can mentally summarize that person’s life and his or her importance in a paragraph or so. If you can do that, you’re probably good to go. Also, when it comes to biographies, while it can be interesting to learn where someone was born, what their childhood was like, and so on, usually the part of the biography you should focus most of your attention on is their major activities as an adult, especially as they relate to the history of the United States!

Colonial America, 1607-1760s

"Three Worlds Meet"
1. main readings
  1. EBO: "Vinland" (2 pages)
  2. EBO: "Pre-Columbian Civilizations" (2 pages)
  3. EBO: "Aztec" (2 pages)
  4. EBO: "Native American: Native American Culture Areas:
    The Southeast" (1 page)
  5. American History: "Christopher Columbus: A Much-Debated Hero" (2 pages)
  6. American History: "Francisco Vásquez de Coronado"
    (2 pages)
  7. American History: "Spanish and the Encomienda System"
    (2 pages)
  8. American History: "Bartolomé de Las Casas" (2 pages)
  9. American History: "North American Smallpox Epidemic"
    (1 page)
2. suggested readings
  1. American History: "European Transatlantic Explorations of the New World" (1 map)
  2. American History: "Spanish Exploration and Conquests,
    1513-1542" (1 map)
  3. American History: "Explorers of Florida, 16th Century"
    (1 map)
  4. American History: "Christopher Columbus" (3 pages)
  5. American History: "Hernando Cortés" (3 pages)
  6. American History: "Juan Ponce de León" (2 pages)
3. A.P. readings
  1. American History: "Black Legend" (1 page)
Early English Settlements
1. main readings
  1. Thomas Harriot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (8 pages)
  2. ANB: "Dare, Virginia" (1 page)
  3. American History: "Powhatan" (Group / Organization)
    (3 pages)
  4. American History: "Pocahontas" (2 pages)
  5. Beverly Campbell, "When Virginia Ducked Milady Witch," Richmond Times-Dispatch (December 30, 1934) (10 pages)
  6. ANB: "Tisquantum" (2 pages)
  7. DAH: "Puritans and Puritanism" (2 pages)
  8. American History: "John Winthrop" (2 pages)
  9. American History: "Anne Hutchinson" (2 pages)
  10. American History: "Anne Hutchinson: Trial (1637)" (2 pages)
  11. American History: "Roger Williams" (2 pages)
  12. DAH: "Proprietary Colonies" (3 pages)
  13. DAH: "Middle Colonies" (1 page)
  14. American History: "Cecil Calvert" (2 pages)
  15. American History: "William Penn" (2 pages)
  16. American History: "Society of Friends" (2 pages)
  17. American History: "James Oglethorpe" (2 pages)
2. suggested readings
  1. American History: "John Cabot: English Explorer" (2 pages)
  2. EBO: "Native American: Native American Culture Areas:
    The Northeast" (1 page)
  3. DAH: "Starving in Virginia (1607-1610, by Captain John Smith)" (3 pages)
  4. DAH: "Raleigh Colonies" (1 page)
  5. EBO: "Raleigh, Sir Walter" (3 pages)
  6. American History: "Founding of Jamestown" (1 page)
  7. American History: "Powhatan" (Individual) (1 page)
  8. American History: "John Smith" (2 pages)
  9. American History: "Starving Time" (half a page)
  10. American History: "Powhatan War" (2 pages)
  11. DAH: "Colonial Ships" (half a page)
  12. EBO: "Pilgrim Fathers" (1 page)
  13. DAH: "Plymouth Colony" (4 pages)
  14. ANB: "Hutchinson, Anne" (2 pages)
  15. ANB: "Williams, Roger" (6 pages)
  16. DAH: "Maryland" (first two pages)
  17. DAH: "South Carolina" (first three pages)
  18. DAH: "Pennsylvania" (first three pages)
  19. DAH: "Quakers" (first 2 pages)
  20. ANB: "Penn, William" (5 pages)
  21. ANB: "Oglethorpe, James Edward" (3 pages)
  22. DAH: "New York Colony" (3 pages)
3. A.P. readings
  1. American History: "John Rolfe" (2 pages)
  2. DAH: "Mayflower Compact" (1 page)
  3. DAH: "Antinomian Controversy" (1 page)
  4. DAH: "Colonial Settlements" (5 pages)
  5. DAH: "Toleration Acts" (half a page)
  6. DAH: "Holy Experiment" (half a page)
  7. DAH: "Rice Culture and Trade" (3 pages)
  8. American History: "Colonial Government and Politics"
    (5 pages)
Life in Colonial America
1. main readings
  1. American History: "Colonial Society" (4 pages)
  2. American History: "Colonial Economy" (4 pages)
  3. American History: "Colonial Religion" (4 pages)
  4. American History: "Salem Witchcraft Trials" (1 page)
  5. American History: "Jonathan Edwards" (2 pages)
  6. American History: "George Whitefield" (2 pages)
2. suggested readings
  1. Oxford Companion to U.S. History: "Colonial Era" (7 pages)
  2. Oxford Companion to U.S. History: "Agriculture -- Colonial Era" (3 pages)
  3. Oxford Companion to U.S. History: "Salem Witchcraft"
    (2 pages)
  4. American History: "Great Awakening" (half a page)
  5. Oxford Companion to U.S. History: "Great Awakening,
    First and Second" (2 pages)
  6. EBO: "John Wesley" (2 pages)
  7. ANB: "Whitefield, George" (2 pages)
  8. Oxford Companion to U.S. History: "Edwards, Jonathan"
    (2 pages)
  9. American History: Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Sermon (1741) (10 pages)
3. A.P. readings
  1. DAH: "Gender and Gender Roles" (10 pages)
African Slavery
1. main readings
  1. American History: "Bacon's Rebellion" (2 pages)
  2. DAH: "Middle Passage" (3 pages)
  3. Equiano, "The African Slave Trade" (5 pages)
  4. Oxford Companion to U.S. History: "Slavery: Slave Families, Communities, and Culture" (3 pages)
  5. DAH: "Plantation System of the South" (3 pages)
2. suggested readings
  1. DAH: "Slave Ships" (half a page)
  2. DAH: "Slave Trade" (9 pages)
  3. EBO: "Slavery -- Slavery in the Americas" (2 pages)
  4. EBO: "Middle Passage" (1 page)
  5. Oxford Companion to U.S. History: "Slavery: Historians and Slavery" (2 pages)
3. A.P. readings
  1. DAH: "Slavery" (11 pages)
  2. American History: "Slavery" (5 pages)
Rivals
1. main readings
  1. American History: "Metacomet" (2 pages)
  2. American History: "Mary Rowlandson" (1 page)
  3. DAH: "Spanish Borderlands" (4 pages)
  4. American History: "Fur Trade" (first 2 pages)
  5. DAH: "New France" (4 pages)
  6. DAH: "New Netherland" (3 pages)
  7. American History: "Dutch West India Company" (2 pages)
  8. DAH: "New Sweden Colony" (1 page)
2. suggested readings
  1. American History: "King Philip's War" (2 pages)
  2. Oxford Companion to U.S. History: "French Settlements in
    North America" (2 pages)
  3. American History: "Pequot War" (1 page)
  4. EBO: "King Philip's War" (1 page)

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