Unit 4: The Second Great Awakening & other types of Reform (begins 3/2/11)

March 2: EAR, chapter 11; Mary P. Ryan, A Women's Awakening: Evangelical Religion and the Families of Utica, New York, 1800-1840American Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 5, Special Issue: Women and Religion (Winter, 1978), pp. 602-623.

March 7: EAR, chapters 12 & 13.

Update: You final topic statement due date has been moved back to Wednesday, 3/9.

March 9: Discuss A Shopkeeper's Millenium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837, introductions and chapters 1-3.

SPRING BREAK

March 21:   Discuss A Shopkeeper's Millenium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837, introductions and chapters 4-6 & afterward.

March 23:   EAR, Part IV, "The Work of a New Republic," Chapters 8, 9 & 10.

March 28:   Christine Stansell, "Women, Children, and the Uses of the Streets: Class and Gender Conflict in New York City, 1850-1860;" Feminist Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, Women and Work (Summer, 1982), pp. 309-335; and Bruce Laurie, “'Nothing on Compulsion': Life styles of Philadelphia Artisans18201850."  pp. 337 – 366. (Handout)

March 30:   There is no reading assigned this day.  Instead, I will be in my office, ready and willing  to talk about the first draft of your paper due on April 1st.