History

History 3122 (332): Community in America, Maine, and at Bowdoin

History 3122 (332) Reading Guide with e-reserve and online database links

• Week 1 (Thursday, Sept. 2)
  
  • Preview
• Week 2
  • Introduction:  Historical visions and sociological models of community
• Week 3
  • New England Communities:  Witchcraft as a community phenomenon
• Week 4
  • Salem Repossessed:  Contrasting perspectives and analyses
• Week 5
  • Library Tour and Research Methodologies
• Week 6
  
  • The Frontier in the Early Republic:  Community, biography, fiction, myth
• Week 7
  • Fall Vacation, No Class Meeting
  • Wed.-Fri.:  Individual conferences: research projects
• Week 8
  • An African American Community in Maine: Uncovering communities within communities
• Week 9
  • Library Research Lab
  • Friday:  Research Paper Prospectus due
• Week 10
  • Library Research TBD
• Week 11
  • Library Research TBD
• Week 12
  • Bowdoin College: The beginnings to the 1830s
• Week 13
  • Bowdoin College: 1840-1920
• Week 14
  • Individual Conferences:  research and writing progress
• Week 15
  • Final Class Meeting:  work-in-progress presentations