HIST 3304/01 – Georgia History
#10064 – Summer
Semester 2008
Instructor: Dr. Thomas A. Scott
MW 2:00 - 4:45 PM
– SO 3010
Office: SO 4100
Office Hours: MW 1-2, immediately after class, TuTh 4-5, or
by appointment. I expect to be on campus
practically all afternoon everyday. Drop
in any time you see the door open or make an appointment if you would like to
see me at times when I don’t have office hours.
I will also respond to e-mail or phone messages as soon as I receive them.
Phone: 770-423-6254 (office) or 404-421-8319 (cell)
FAX: 770-423-6432
e-mail: tscott@kennesaw.edu
Website: http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~tscott/
Books:
Please purchase the following required books:
Doctorow,
E. L. The March: A Novel.
Grooms,
Anthony. Bombingham: A Novel.
Kay, Terry. The
Year the Lights Came On.
Scott,
Thomas A., ed. Cornerstones of
Georgia History: Documents That Formed
the State.
While you are in the bookstore also please purchase two (2) blue examination books (standard notebook paper size)
The campus bookstore has several
copies of a fine textbook, Kenneth Coleman, gen. ed., A History of Georgia. It is strictly optional, but you may find it
useful as a reference book. Those of you
who plan to teach
University Policy
on Academic Misconduct:
Academic Honesty: Please
refer to policy stated in the current KSU Undergraduate Catalog. See Student Code of Conduct regarding section
II Academic Honesty (plagiarism and cheating).
It reads as follows: No
student shall receive, attempt to receive, knowingly give or attempt to give
unauthorized assistance in the preparation of any work required to be submitted
for credit as part of a course (including examinations, laboratory reports,
essays, themes, term papers, etc.) When
direct quotations are used, they should be indicated, and when the ideas, theories,
data, figures, graphs, programs, electronic based information or illustrations
of someone other than the student are incorporated into a paper or used in a
project, they should be duly acknowledged.
Testing and
Grading:
The grading scale is A = 90-100; B = 80-89; C = 70-79; D = 60-69, and F = 0-59. The final grade will be determined in the following manner:
The final grade will be determined in the following manner:
Quizzes – 1/3rd of final grade
Midterm – 1/3rd of final grade
Final exam – 1/3rd of final grade
Classes will begin with a short written-answer quiz over that day’s reading assignment and the lecture from the previous class. You may drop your lowest quiz grade. I will excuse an occasional absence on an individual basis if an emergency or exceptional circumstance causes you to miss. Please notify me as quickly as possible if you are going to be absent.
The midterm and final will consist of a series of essay questions that can be answered in about one to two pages each. The midterm will cover the material from the first half of the semester, and the final will cover the material from the last half.
Description:
Facts and dates are the raw materials of history, but they aren’t history by themselves. History is what the historian does to interpret and make sense of those raw materials. When students select and organize the facts in meaningful patterns and try to explain what they mean, then they are creating history. History starts with a series of questions about what happened, why it happened, and how it is relevant to us today.
To tell their stories, historians rely on primary sources,
which are the original documents that have survived from the time of the events
about which they write. They also rely
on secondary sources to find out how previous writers have interpreted past events. Secondary sources are books written by
historians who probably did not witness the events they described but studied
all the primary sources they could find to reach their conclusions. Cornerstones of Georgia History is a
book of documents organized around central themes in
Works of fiction can add to our understanding of the way
people thought in a particular time and place.
The March, The Year the Lights Came On, and Bombingham are
highly regarded historical novels.
This will be a text-based course. In your exams you will be expected to discuss some of the ideas that come out of the readings and to base your conclusions on the documentary evidence. I will do my best to help you interpret the material, but ultimately the course will have value to the extent that you think things through and reach your own conclusions. When you do that, you will be acting like an historian.
Daily Class
Schedule:
Mon., June 2
– Introduction; lecture on Native Americans and Spanish in
Mon., June 9 – Cornerstones, chap. 3 & 4, “Trustees and Malcontents” C03.doc and “Patriots and Loyalists” C04.doc; Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, “The Fight,” http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/longstreet/georgia.html#geor53 GS-The Fight.doc. With Chap. 3 also please read the epilogue of Eugene Genovese, A Consuming Fire for an example of a modern historian’s use of the Petition of the Inhabitants of New Inverness: A Consuming Fire.pdf. For a discussion of the elements of fiction (plot, subject, theme, setting, etc.) please see elementsfiction.doc.
Wed., June 11 – Cornerstones, chap.
5, “State of Georgia and the Cherokees” C05.doc and Ralph
Waldo Emerson’s account of Cherokee Removal Emerson on Cherokee Removal.pdf
. Also please read Doctorow, The March:
a Novel, Part 1, “
Mon., June 16
– Cornerstones, chap. 6, “Slavery in
The readings today include two oral histories with former slaves conducted in the late 1930s by the Federal Writers’ Project. If you would like to access the entire collection of several thousand interviews, it is now online through the Library of Congress’ American Memory Project. The collection is entitled “Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938” at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html.
Wed., June 18
– Cornerstones, chap. 7, “Secessionists and Cooperationists” C07.doc and The March,
Part 3, “
Mon., June 23
– Cornerstones, chap. 8 & 9, “Federal Occupation of Georgia,
1864” C08.doc and “Reconstruction in
Wed., June 25 – Midterm exam
Fri., June 27
– Last day to withdraw. Midterm grades
will be recorded in the
Mon.,
June 30 –Cornerstones,
Chap. 10, “Postwar Poverty” C10.doc and Terry Kay,
The Year the Lights Came On, 1-107
(chapters 1-8) Year the Lights
Came On.doc. For census data on
Elbert and
Wed., July 2 – Cornerstones, chap. 11, “Jim Crow Georgia and Its Leaders, Black and White” C11.doc; Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” speech (1895) http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/ C11 Atlanta Compromise.doc. Also please read The Year the Lights Came On, 108-211 (chapters 9-13)
Mon., July 7 – Cornerstones, chap. 12 & 13, “Leo Frank Case” C12.doc and “Georgia’s Rejection of Woman Suffrage” C13.doc; also please read Steve Oney’s account of the leading citizens of Marietta who planned the Frank lynching at And the Dead Shall Rise Steve Oney.pdf And the Dead Shall Rise Marietta chapter.doc
Wed., July 9 – Cornerstones, chap. 14 “Crisis in Agriculture” C14.doc and The Year the Lights Came On, 212-300 (chapters 14-Epilogue plus please skim the “Afterword” by William J. Scheick).
Mon., July 14
– Cornerstones, chap. 15 “Moving Toward the Mainstream” C15.doc; Bombingham, chap. 1-8, pp. 1-99 Bombingham.doc.
Also please read Civil Rights
forces.doc. We will show in class B-29s over
Dixie, a 1944 documentary film. B-29s Over Dixie.doc
Wed., July 16 – Cornerstones, chap. 16 “Integration of Public Schools and Colleges” C16.doc; and Bombingham, chap. 9-16, pp. 101-204. Also please look at GA POP GROWTH.doc and georgia election results.doc
Mon., July 21 – Cornerstones, chap. 17, “Rise of a Future President” C17.doc and Bombingham, chap. 17-26, pp. 205-304;
Wed., July 23
– Cornerstones, chap. 18,
“Economic Development and Quality of Life C18.doc”; and
Ferrol Sams, “Call It Progress” Ferrol Sams Call It
Progress.pdf C18 Call It Progress.doc. Also please read THE TWO GEORGIAS.doc
Mon., July 28
– Final exam