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Early American Experience . Fall 2011 MWF 12-1 WH 313 MWF 2-3 WH 313 Prof. Emil Pocock Eastern Connecticut State University Office Hours MWF 1:00-2:00 |
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Emil Pocock, History and American Studies, Eastern Connecticut State University |
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Early American Experience . Fall 2011 MWF 12-1 WH 313 MWF 2-3 WH 313 Prof. Emil Pocock Eastern Connecticut State University Office Hours MWF 1:00-2:00 |
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Purchase the two books at the beginning of the semester at the university bookstore or your favorite book seller. Use only the publishers' printed editions.
James L. Roark, et al, The
American Promise, Compact
Edition, Vol. I (Bedford) Nathan Huggins, Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass (Longman) There is no class On Friday October 7 The mid-term exam has been moved to Friday October 10 Suggestions
for writing quizzes, exams, and short papers
Final Exams 12:00 Class: Dec. 12 at 12:30 2:00 class: Dec. 16 at 3:00 |
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Willimantic |
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Mystic Seaport, just east of New
London, Connecticut, recreates life in an early 19th-century
ship-building port. |
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Plimoth Plantation, Massachusetts is a historic attraction that recreates the Pilgrim village as it might have appeared soon after its founding in 1619. | |
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Visit sites made famous in revolutionary Boston by walking
the Freedom Trail, part
of the Boston National
Historical Park. |
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Old Sturbridge Village
is
a collection of houses, churches, and other buildings designed to
recreate an early 19th-century New England village. |
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Hancock
Shaker Village preserves
many of the unique buildings that comprised this
19th-century
utopian religious community in western Massachusetts. |
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Take
a walking tour of historic Newport, Rhode Island, and see the
port, colonial streets, the
oldest Jewish synagogue in the US, summer homes of the very wealthy,
and many more sites. |
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L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada. The Vikings settled here in 1003, the first Europeans to colonize North America. Remains of the Norse village were discovered in the 1970s. |  |
The Spanish built a stone fortress, El Castillo de San Marcos, near present-day St. Augustine, Florida, in 1672, after occupying this frontier outpost since 1565. | |
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Virtual Jamestown, Virginia, provides an on-line tour of the first permanent English settlement in North America. Another Jamestown site provides more historical detail. |  |
The
restored Hermitage, outside
of Nashville, Tennessee, was the plantation home of president Andrew
Jackson. |
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Independence Hall, Philadelphia, was where the Declaration of Indpendence and the Constitution were adopted. |  |
The Lowell National Historical
Park in Massachusetts preserves
a number of mills, water works,
boardinghouses, and other structures associated with the First
Industrial Revolution. |
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Washington, in the federal District of Columbia carved out of Maryland and Virginia, became the new capital of the United States in 1801. |  |
The Mexican fortified mission known as The Alamo, now within the city limits of San Antonio, Texas, was the site of a mjor battle for the independence of Texas in 1836. | |
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The
War of 1812 battle at Ft McHenry, at the
entrance to Baltimore harbor,
inpired the writing of the
National
Antheum. |
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The Women's Rights National Historical Park is located in Seneca Falls, New York, the site of the 1848 Women's Rights convention and home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. | |
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Extensively
restored Colonial
Williamsburg depicts the former
capital of
Virginia as it might have been prior to
the Revolutionary War. |
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One of the most important battles of the Civil War was fought at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battlefield is now a National Military Park. | |