Maryland History from Colonial
Times to the Present
CS 464.308
Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse, Instructor
Wednesdays, 6:15-8:45
Hodson 305, Homewood Campus
STUDENT LED DISCUSSIONS:
Wednesday, February 4.
FROM SETTLEMENT TO COLONY, 1634-1715. Tom Garvey (1) leads discussion
of the provisions of the Charter
of Maryland and Maryland
... at the Beginning.
Wednesday, February 11.
THE FORGOTTEN MOTHERS OF MARYLAND: The Maternal Roots of the Free State.
Anne Albinak (2) leads discussion of Carr & Walsh, "The Planter's
Wife,."
Wednesday, February 18.
FROM COLONY TO PROVINCE, 1715-1765. Renee Mobley (3) leads discussion
of 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 documents
relating to the career of the only person (a Jew) prosecuted under the
Toleration Act.
Wednesday, February 25.
FROM PROVINCE TO STATE, 1765-1777. Cindi Mather (4) leads discussion
of 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.
Wednesday, March 3.
FROM ONE, TO ONE OF MANY, 1776-1838. Elaine Strong (5) leads
discussion of 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.
Wednesday, March 10.
WRITING IT ALL DOWN, 1776-1838. Andrew Diconza (6) leads
discussion of Document Packet: Writing
It All Down: The Art of Constitution Making for the State and the Nation,
1776-1833, MSA SC 2221-4
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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, March 17.
Book review due as an attachment to an email by class time to: edp@mdsa.net.
Books reviewed must be chosen from the list given on the syllabus, all
of which are in print and should be available in the library or at the
Pratt.
THE FUTILE SEARCH FOR CONSENSUS, 1833-1861. Victoria Mahoney (7)
leads discussion of the implications of the speech
of Colonel Curtis Jacobs.
Wednesday, March 24.
BLOODYING THE MIDDLE GROUND, 1858-1867. David Hunt (8) leads
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.
Wednesday, March 31.
Wednesday, April 7.
Wednesday, April 14.
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND ECONOMIC CHAOS, 1915-1939. Kathlee Wisner
(J) leads discussion on reading in texts on cd for period 1915-1939.
How do the authors differ in their interpretations of the period? What
don't they cover? Focus reading on the efforts to Balance Budgets and Reform
State Government, 1915-1921 under Governor Ritchie's leadership.
Wednesday, April 21.
Wednesday, April 28.
BIGGER AND BETTER?, SMALLER AND WORSE? GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY, 1968-1996.
Mike Lilly (K) leads discussion of 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.
Wednesday, May 5.
FINAL EXAM. Hyperlink will be activated
on April 28. Answers due as an attachment to an email to edp@mdsa.net
no later than 6:15 p.m. on May 5.
©Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse (instructor)
Office Hours by appointment
Phone: (o) 410-260-6401; (h) 410-467-6137
Internet Address: http://www.teachersmd.net
Email Address: edp@mdsa.net
Last update: January 27, 2004