Sarah McNair Vosmeier
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Speaking and Reading about History
Jan. 8, 2018 (Mon.) Lecture: "Defining Terms."
Jan. 10, 2018 (Wed.) "Discussion: Vosmeier, "On
Marginalia," 2016 (
online); Walker, Of Education, 1673 (excerpt online);
Johnson, lecture at Google, 2010 (video online);
Fleming, "Keeping a Commonplace Book," 2012 (online);
"Chicago Manual Footnote Style" (online).
Lecture:
"The Commonplace Book."
Workshop: The
commonplace book.
Jan. 12, 2018 (Fri.) Meet in the Duggan Library
Archives.
Workshop: Using
archival material (manuscript speeches). Pocket Guide,
2-6, 8-13.
Jan. 15, 2018 (Mon.) Discussion: Kirkman, Science of
Railways, 1903 (excerpt online);
Krantz, "Professionalism and Ethics," 2015 (online);
Miller, "Why What You Learned in Preschool is Crucial in Work," 2015 (online);
Pocket Guide, 27-32.
Jan. 17, 2018 (Wed.) Meet in the Learning Center.
Workshop: Use of
sources. Pocket Guide, 60-77.
Speaking of Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Jan. 19, 2018 (Fri.) Lecture: "Seventeenth-Century
Virginia."
Jan. 22, 2018 (Mon.) Discussion: Morgan, American
Slavery, American Freedom, 1975 (pp. xiii-xv [2005 edition], 3-6, 379-87).
Jan. 24, 2018 (Wed.) Discussion: Smith, True Travels,
1630 (excerpts online).
Jan. 26, 2018 (Fri.) Discussion: Smith, General
History of Virginia, 1624, and other autobiographical excerpts, 1608, 1617
(excerpts online).
Jan. 29, 2018 (Mon.) Discussion: Morgan, 71-91.
Workshop:
Elevator speeches. Krantz, "Developing Your Elevator Pitch," (handout).
Jan. 31, 2018 (Wed.) Discussion: Rountree,
"Powhatan Indian Women," 1998 (online
-- click on blue "PDF Full Text" to the left and print out);
Pocahontas, autobiographical fragments, c. 1608-1616 (online).
Feb. 2, 2018 (Fri.) Workshop: Prepared
Interview. Krantz, "Art of Interviewing" (handout); Pocket Guide,
20-27, 34-44. Elevator pitch due.
Feb. 5, 2018 (Mon.) Discussion: Mann, "America Found,
and Lost," 2007 (online);
Rolfe, letter to Dale, 1614 (online).
Feb. 7, 2018 (Wed.) Prepared interviews (schedule
t.b.a.).
Feb. 9, 2018 (Fri.) Prepared interviews (schedule
t.b.a.).
Feb. 12, 2018 (Mon.) Prepared interviews (schedule
t.b.a.).
Feb. 14, 2018 (Wed.) Discussion: "Memorable Americans,"
2017 (online);
Frisch, "American History and the Structures of Collective Memory," 1989 (online
-- click on blue "Download PDF" button to the right and print out).
Feb. 16, 2018 (Fri.) Review.
Feb. 19, 2018 (Mon.) Midterm
exam.
Feb. 21, 2018 (Wed.) Discussion of speeches from
Hanover's history: Crowe, "Address to Literary Societies," 1857 (online);
Bruce, graduation speech, 1945 (online);
Austin, graduation speech, 1964 (online);
Pence, commencement address, 2008 (online);
Reisser, commencement address, 2014 (online).
Workshop: Special occasion speeches. Pocket Guide, 80-108,
192-202. Commonplace books due.
Winter Break
Speaking of the American Revolution
Mar. 5, 2018 (Mon.) Lecture: "The Revolutionary Era."
Mar. 7, 2018 (Wed.) Discussion: Declaration of
Independence, 1776 (online).
Mar. 9, 2018 (Fri.) Discussion: Abigail Adams, "Remember
the Ladies" letter, 1776 (online).
Workshop:
Public speaking. Pocket Guide, 13-20, 126-37.
Mar. 12, 2018 (Mon.) Historic speeches delivered.
Mar. 14, 2018 (Wed.) Historic speeches delivered.
Mar. 16, 2018 (Fri.) Meet in the Duggan Library computer
lab.
Workshop:
Bibliographic Instruction.
Speaking of the Nineteenth Century
Mar. 19, 2018 (Mon.) Lecture: "The Civil War."
Mar. 21, 2018 (Wed.) Discussion: Monfort letters (online).
Mar. 23, 2018 (Fri.) Discussion: Lincoln, Gettysburg
Address, 1863 (online);
Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman?" speech, 1851 (online).
Conference on Twentieth-Century America
Apr. 2, 2018 (Mon.) Article presentations.
Clotfelter, "Die-Hard Fans and the Ivory Tower’s Ties That Bind," 2015 (online
-- click "PDF Full Text" to the left and print out).
Apr. 4, 2018 (Wed.) Article presentations.
Lowe, "From Robust Appetites to Calorie Counting," 1996 (online).
Apr. 6, 2018 (Fri.) Article presentations.
Adams, "Follow the Money: Engineering at Stanford and UC Berkeley during
the Rise of Silicon Valley," 2009 (online
-- click "PDF Full Text" to the left and print out).
Apr. 9, 2018 (Mon.) Article
presentations. Flowers, "The Launching of the Student
Sit-in Movement," 2005 (online
-- click "PDF Full Text" to the left and print out).
Apr. 11, 2018 (Wed.) Assignment t.b.a.
Apr. 13, 2018 (Fri.) Review. Commonplace book due.
From readings and lectures, students will learn how historians make historical arguments and how they use evidence to support those arguments. This objective will be a part of almost everything we do, but the "Use of Sources" assignment is an especially clear way for students to demonstrate this objective.