HIST 70603
Old South Readings Seminar
Section 707
Syllabus
Instructor: Dr. Steven Woodworth
Office Hours: M 11:00-11:30; TR 9:15-11:30, 1:30-2:30
Office: RH 310 257-6293 s.woodworth@tcu.edu
Description & Objectives
This course will give students practice in writing book reviews and acquaint them with the body of literature in Southern history.
Evaluation
Grades will be based on class participation (10%), 12 written book reviews (60%), and a final exam (30%).
Book Reviews
Book reviews will be 500-800 words and will summarize and assess the book being reviewed. At the first meeting of the seminar (Jan. 23), each student will choose (with the professor’s approval) one book in each of the twelve weekly units listed in this syllabus. At each meeting of the seminar, the student will turn in a review of the book dealing with that day’s unit and will be prepared to present that review orally and discuss it with the seminar. Late book reviews will be penalized one letter-grade (10 points) per week or portion of a week that they are late.
Note on Disabilities
If you require accommodations for a disability, please contact the Coordinator for Students with Disabilities, Center for Academic Services, Sadler Hall 11, TCU Box 297710, 817-257-7486. Once you have met with me to deliver and discuss an official accommodations letter from TCU's Academic Services, I will be able to arrange for your modifications related to this course. If you have emergency medical information or need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please discuss this with me as soon as possible.
Tentative Class Schedule
Jan. 23 Introduction
Jan. 30 The Early South
Feb. 6 Politics in the Revolutionary and Early National South
Feb. 13 The Expansionist South
Feb. 20 Slavery, Slaves, and Slaveholders, Part 1
Feb. 27 Slavery, Slaves, and Slaveholders, Part 2
March 6 Southern Agriculture and Economy 1816-1860
March 13 spring break—seminar does not meet
March 20 Southern Culture and Society from the Revolution to the Civil War, Part 1
March 27 Southern Culture and Society from the Revolution to the Civil War, Part 2
April 3 Southern Culture and Society from the Revolution to the Civil War, Part 3
April 10 The Life of the Mind in the Old South
April 17 The Politics and the Growth of Sectionalism, 1816-1860, Part 1
April 24 The Politics and the Growth of Sectionalism, 1816-1860, Part 2
May 1 Final Exam
This schedule is tentative and is subject to change by the professor as announced in regularly scheduled meetings of the seminar.
Bibliography
January 30
The Early South
Verner Winslow Crane, The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732 (1928)
Wesley Frank Craven, The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1689 (1949)
Aubrey C. Land, The Dulanys of Maryland (1955)
John R. Alden, The First South (1961)
Winthrope Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (1968)
Richard R. Beeman, The Old Dominion and the New Nation, 1788-1801 (1972)
Alden T. Vaughan, American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia (1975)
Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975)
Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982)
Richard R. Beeman, The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenberg County, Virginia, 1746-1832 (1984)
T. H. Breen, Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution (1985)
James R. Perry, The Formation of a Society on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1615-1655 (1990)
James Horn, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (1994)
George Lloyd Johnson, Jr., The Frontier in the Colonial South: South Carolina Backcountry, 1736-1800 (1997)
Frederic W. Gleach, Powhatan’s World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (1997)
Lorri Glover, All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry (2000)
Anthony S. Parent, Jr., Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave society in Virginia, 1660-1740 (2003)
L. H. Roper, Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729 (2004)
February 6
Politics in the South during the Revolutionary & Early National Eras
Charles S. Sydnor, Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia (1952)
John Richard Alden, The South in the Revolution, 1763-1789 (1957)
Charles S. Sydnor, American Revolutionaries in the Making: Political Practices in Washington’s Virginia (1965)
Merrill D. Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography (1970)
John Shy, A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle or American Independence (1976)
Lance Banning, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology (1978)
Robert E. Shalhope, John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican (1980)
Henry Lumpkin, From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South (1981)
John S. Pancake, This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782 (1985)
Drew R. McCoy, Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy (1989)
Daniel P. Jordan, Political Leadership in Jefferson’s Virginia (1983)
Bruce A. Ragsdale, A Planter’s Republic: The Search for Economic Independence in Revolutionary Virginia (1996)
James Haw, John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina (1997)
Jean M. Yarbrough, American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People (1998)
February 13
The Expansionist South
Thomas Perkins Abernethy, From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee: A Study in Frontier Democracy (1932)
Harriette Simpson Arnow, Seedtime on the Cumberland (1960)
Robert E. May, The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861 (1973)
Alexander DeConde, This Affair of Louisiana (1976)
Charles A. Brown, Agents of Manifest Destiny: The Lives and Times of the Filibusters (1980)
Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr., Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands: The Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans, 1812-1815 (1981)
Robert E. May, John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader (1985)
Stephen Aron, How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay (1996)
Wilma A. Dunaway, The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 (1996)
Ty Cashion, A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887 (1996)
Daniel S. Dupre, Transforming the Cotton Frontier: Madison County, Alabama, 1800-1840 (1997)
Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr. And Gene A. Smith, Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821 (1997)
February 20
Slavery, Slaves, and Slaveholders
Part 1
Ulrich B. Phillips, American Negro Slavery (1918)
Kenneth M. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (1956)
Stanley Elkins, Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959)
John Lofton, Insurrection in South Carolina: The Turbulent World of Denmark Vesey (1964)
Peter Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stone Rebellion (1974)
Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974)*
Stephen B. Oates, The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion (1975)*
Herbert G. Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 (1976)
John W. Blassingame, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South (1979)*
Mechal Sobel, Trabelin' On: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith (1979)
Eugene D. Genovese, From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World (1979)
John B. Boles, Black Southerners, 1619-1869 (1983)
John Lofton, Denmark Vesey’s Revolt: The Slave Plot that Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter (1983)
Deborah G. White, Ar’nt I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985)*
Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (1985)
February 27
Slavery, Slaves, and Slaveholders
Part 2
Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 (1989)*
Eugene D. Genovese, The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860 (1992)*
Ann Patton Malone, Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana (1992)
Douglas R. Egerton, Gabriel’s Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 (1993)*
Charles B. Dew, Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge (1994)
Betty Wood, Women’s Work, Men’s Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia (1995)
Marvin L. Michael Kay and Lorin Lee Cary, Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 (1995)
Wilma King, Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (1995)*
Paul Finkelman, Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson (1996)
Thomas D. Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 (1996)
Larry E. Hudson, Jr., To Have and to Hold: Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina (1997)
Betty Wood, The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies (1997)
Peter P. Hinks, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance (1997)
Lorena S. Walsh, From Calibar to Carter’s Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community (1997)
Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998)
Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999)
March 6
Southern Agriculture and Economy 1816-1860
Joseph C. Robert, The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860 (1938)
James F. Hopkins, A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky (1951)
J. Carlyle Sitterson, Sugar Country: The Cane Sugar Industry in the South, 1753-1950 (1953)
Harold D. Woodman, King Cotton and His Retainers: Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crops of the South, 1800-1925 (1968)
Sam B. Hilliard, Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860 (1972)
Gavin Wright, The Political Economy of The Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century (1978)
Richard G. Lowe and Randolph B. Campbell, Planters and Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas (1987)
John H. Moore, The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770-1860 (1988)
William M. Mathew, Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South: The Failure of Agricultural Reform (1988)
John C. Inscoe, Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (1989)
David F. Allmendinger, Jr., Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South (1990)
Joyce E. Chaplin, An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993)
March 20
Southern Culture and Society from the Revolution to the Civil War
Part 1
John D. Wade, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: A Study in the Development of Culture in the South (1924)
Frank L. Owsley, Plain Folk in the Old South (1949)
John Hope Franklin, The Militant South, 1800-1861 (1956)
Marcus Cunliffe, Soldiers & Civilians: The Martial Spirit in America, 1775-1865 (1968)
John B. Boles, The Great Revival, 1787-1805 (1972)
John B. Boles, Religion in Antebellum Kentucky (1976)
Raimondo Luraghi, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation South (1978)
Anne C. Loveland, Southern Evangelicals and the Social Order, 1820-1860 (1980)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982)
James Oakes, The Ruling Race (1982)
Jane T. Censer, North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800-1860 (1984)
March 27
Southern Culture and Society from the Revolution to the Civil War
Part 2
Edward L. Ayers, Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the 19th-Century American South (1984)
J. William Harris, Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in August’s Hinterlands (1985)
David Bailey, Shadow on the Church: Southwestern Evangelical Religion and the Issue of Slavery, 1783-1860 (1985)
Grady McWhiney, Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South (1988)
David Hackett Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989)
Mitchell Snay, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (1993)
Randy J. Sparks, On Jordan’s Stormy Banks: Evangelicalism in Mississippi, 1773-1876 (1994)
Christopher Morris, Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860 (1995)
David B. Chesebrough, Clergy Dissent in the Old South, 1830-1865 (1996)
April 3
Southern Culture and Society from the Revolution to the Civil War
Part 3
Kenneth S. Greenberg, Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, The Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South (1996)
Richard E. Nisbett and Dov Cohen, Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South (1996)
Christine Leigh Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (1997)
James M. Denham, “A Rogue’s Paradise”: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Flolrida, 1821-1861 (1997)
Gregory A. Wills, Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 (1997)
Christopher H. Owen, The Sacred Flame of Love: Methodism and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (1998)
Ellen Eslinger, Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism (1999)
Dick Steward, Duels and the Roots of Violence in Missouri (2000)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1890s (2001)
Celeste Ray, Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South (2001)
April 10
The Life of the Mind in the Old South
Clement Eaton, The Mind of the Old South (1967)
Lewis P. Simpson, The Dispossessed Garden: Pastoral and History in Southern Literature (1975)
Drew Gilpin Faust, A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860 (1977)
E. Brooks Holifield, The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture, 1795-1860 (1978)
Robert J. Brugger, Beverly Tucker: Heart over Head in the Old South (1978)
Michael O’Brien, A Character of Hugh Legaré (1985)
James O. Farmer, Jr., The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values (1986)
Larry E. Tise, Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840 (1987)
Reginald Horsman, Josiah Nott of Mobile: Southerner, Physician, and Racial Theorist (1987)
Lewis P. Simpson, Mind and the American Civil War: A Meditation on Lost Causes (1989)
Charles S. Watson, From Nationalism to Secessionism: The Changing Fiction of William Gilmore Simms (1993)
Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr., Yeoman Versus Cavalier: The Old Southwest’s Fictional Road to Rebellion (1993)
Douglas Ambrose, Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South (1996)
Robert F. Pace, Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South (2004)
April 17
The Politics and the Growth of Sectionalism, 1816-1860
Part 1
Jesse T. Carpenter, The South as a Conscious Minority, 1789-1861: A Study in Political Thought (1930)
Charles S. Syndor, The Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1819-1848 (1948)
Avery O. Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848-1861 (1953)
William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836 (1966)
Jon L. Wakelyn, The Politics of a Literary Man: William Gilmore Simms (1973)
William J. Cooper, Jr., The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856 (1978)
J. Mills Thornton III, Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama 1800-1860 (1978)
John M. McCardell, The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860 (1979)
Harry L. Watson, Jacksonian Politics and Community Conflict: The Emergence of the Second Party System in Cumberland County, North Carolina (1981)
Alison Goodyear Freehling, Drift toward Dissolution: The Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831-1832 (1982)
Merrill D. Peterson, Olive Branch and Sword: The Compromise of 1833 (1982)
Drew Gilpin Faust, James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (1982)
John Barnwell, Love of Order: South Carolina’s First Secession Crisis (1982)
William J. Cooper, Jr., Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860 (1983)
April 24
The Politics and the Growth of Sectionalism, 1816-1860
Part 2
Marc W. Kruman, Parties and Politics in North Carolina, 1836-1865 (1983)
Robert F. Durden, The Self-Inflected Wound: Southern Politics in the Nineteenth Century (1985)
Craig M. Simpson, A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia (1985)
Lacy K. Ford, Jr., Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860 (1988)
Eric H. Walther, The Fire-Eaters (1992)
Irving H. Bartlett, John C. Calhoun: A Biography (1993)
Bradley G. Bond, Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South: Mississippi, 1830-1900 (1995)
William G. Shade, Democratizing the Old Dominion: Virginia and the Second Party System, 1824-1861 (1996)
Lorman A. Ratner, Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture (1997)
Michael A. Morrison, Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War (1997)
Jonathan M. Atkins, Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861 (1997)
Robert W. Young, Senator James Murray Mason: Defender of the Old South (1998)