Tuesday, January 17 The Lay of the Land

in class reading (handout):

Michele de Cuneo's letter (1495)

Audio: Vanessa Williams (1995)

Wednesday, January 18, 7:00 PM, SH-221: FILM: Pocahontas (1995)

Link to Reviews

Thursday January 19 Encounters

(Dr. Kristen Oertel)

Reading:

W&AE, pp. xi-22.

Tuesday, January 24 Puritans, Visionaries, and Witches
Audio Frank Sinatra (1958)

Reading:

Anne Bradstreet, "The Prologue" (1650), Women's Work [WW], pp. 9-10; "In Honour of That High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory" (1650), pp. 10-11; "The Author to her Book" (1668), p. 23; "A Letter to Her Husband" (1678), pp. 24-25; "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet" (1678), pp. 28-29; "Upon My Son Samuel His Going to England" (1678), p. 30.

W&AE, pp. 22-35.

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Wednesday, January 25, 7:00 PM, SH-221: FILM: The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Link to Reviews

Thursday, January 26 All Men Are Created Equal? -- The Revolution

Reading:

Thomas Paine, "An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex" (1775), in Course Reader, pp. 1-2.
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776, WW, pp. 104-105;
John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776, Course Reader, p. 3;
Abigail Adams, letter to Mercy Otis Warren, April 27, 1776, WW, pp. 105-106;
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, June 30 [1778], WW, pp. 108-109;
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (1776) in Course Reader, pp. 4-5.

Phyllis Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (176/1773), WW, 111; "To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth" (1772/1773), 113-14; "To His Excellency General Washington" (1775/1776), 115-16.

W&AE, pp. 36-70.