History of Maryland (Hist 400)

Tuesday and Thursday 12:30-1:45

TETC Room 252

Professor Long

Fall 2011

Salisbury University

Department of History

Office # 338 Holloway Hall

Office phone:  410-54(3-6267); Home phone:  410-860-6856

Email:  cslong@salisbury.edu

Office Hours:  Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10-12:00 and by appointment

 

The purpose of this course is to take an in-depth look at Maryland’s past.  Students will study
Maryland’s social, cultural, economic, and political development from the colonial period
through the mid-twentieth century.   Students will examine Maryland’s past in its own right but will
also explore the state’s place in the context of greater American history.

 

Required Texts:

Brugger, Robert J. Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980

Lee, Jean B., Price of Nationhood:  The American Revolution in Charles County, Maryland

Fields, Barbara Jeanne, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground

Levy, Peter, Civil War on Race Street: the Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland

All books are available in the University Bookstore

 

There will also be a number of required readings on reserve at the library and/or posted on my website. 
 I will announce additional readings throughout the semester

 

Assignments and graded components

 

                        Mid-term and Final Exams       50% 

                        Research paper 10 pages        20%

                        Short papers                            20%    

                        Classroom grade                      10%

 

The mid-term and final exams will consist of short and long essay questions based on readings,
lecture, and text material.  For the 10 page Research Paper students will choose from a list of topics on Maryland history distributed in class early in the semester. *** There will also be two  shorter written assignments, one dealing with Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground  and the other a research assignment dealing with ante-bellum/Civil War-era Maryland history.  These assignments will be outlined in handouts approximately two weeks before they are due.   Resources on campus for Maryland History are plentiful.  Both the Nabb Research Center in the Power Professional Building and the Special Collections Room in Blackwell Library have excellent primary and secondary sources relating to the region.  Please note that the research paper is due in class before the Thanksgiving break. Finally, your Classroom Grade will reflect attendance, attentiveness, contributions to class discussions, map quizzes, as well as in-class writing related to the course reading assignments.  Note:  if you miss more than three classes, you may not earn higher than 75% on this portion of your grade and you should expect substantial reductions in your course grade for each subsequent absence.

 

*** History Majors who have successfully completed the Proseminar may write a 12-15 page term paper to satisfy the departmental term paper requirement.  Students exercising this option must submit a paper proposal and preliminary bibliography by the end of week four.

 

Late Paper Policy:  Students must hand in papers at the beginning of class on specified due dates.  For each day of lateness, I will deduct one letter grade.  If you turn in a paper on the right day but after class, I will make an appropriate deduction.

 

Make-Up Exam Policy:  If you have a compelling and documented reason for missing the mid-term exam, it is your responsibility to schedule a make-up within 2 weeks of the original exam date.  All make-ups will be in my office. 

 

Writing Across the Curriculum:  There are a number of extended, formal writing assignments and ample opportunities to think critically in this course.  Additionally, the exams consist exclusively of short and extended essays.  Students will also take considerable notes during the course lectures.  The course conforms to the University’s policy of improving writing skills. 

 

HISTORY DEPARTMENT STATEMENT REGARDING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:

 

The best learning environment is one based on mutual respect and trust.  However, the desire
to achieve a good grade without doing the necessary work may tempt some students to cheat on exams or to represent the work of others as their own.  As should be obvious to anyone at Salisbury University, PLAGIARISM AND CHEATING ARE WRONG and are acts of “academic dishonesty.” The term “academic dishonesty” means a deliberate and deceptive misrepresentation of one’s own work. Instances of academic dishonesty include all, but are not limited to, the following:

(1)               Plagiarism: presenting as one’s own work, whether literally or in paraphrase, the work of another author.

(2)               Cheating on exams, tests, and quizzes; the wrongful giving or accepting of unauthorized exam material; and the use of illegitimate sources of information.

(3)               Unsanctioned collaboration with other individuals in the completion of course assignments.

(4)               Falsifying data and use of fraudulent methods in laboratory, field work, and COMPUTER WORK.

(5)               Falsifying excuses for non-attendance or completion of assignments.

 

There are no mitigating circumstances to justify academic dishonesty. IF you are unclear about what constitutes academic dishonesty or plagiarism, please ask – Ignorance is no excuse. Discovery of academic dishonesty will bring stiff penalties, including a failing grade for the assignment in question and possibly a grade of F for the course.  The maximum penalty at Salisbury University for plagiarism is possible expulsion from the entire USM system, so for your own sakes, DO NOT PLAGIARIZE. 

 

Course schedule, reading assignments, and exams: (Readings subject to change with notice)

Week One, Aug. 30 and Sept. 1

Early Settlement of Maryland

Read "Instructions to the Colonists by Lord Baltimore" (available online)

Brugger, Chapter 1

 

Week Two, Sept. 6 and 8

Colonial Society

Read excerpts from “Journal of George Fox”  available online

Brugger, Chapter 2 

 

Week Three, Sept. 13 and 15

Pre-Revolutionary Maryland

Brugger Chapters 2 and 3;

Begin Price of Nationhood, pp. 3-132

 

Week Four, Sept. 20 and 22

Revolution in Maryland; Brugger Chapter 3 

 Finish Price of Nationhood , pp. 133-262

 

Week Five, Sept.  27 and 29

Sept. 27 handout of first short paper assignment

Early Republic Brugger , Chapter 4

 

Week Six, Oct. 4 and 6 

Antebellum Period in a Middle State

Brugger, Chapter 5 

 

Week Seven, Oct. 11 and 13

Oct. 11 first short paper assignment due

Brugger, Chapter 5; Begin Reading Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground¸ Intro. to p. 89

Mid-Term exam Oct. 13

 

Week Eight, Oct. 18 and 20 

The Civil War:  North? South? Somewhere in Between?

Brugger, Chapter 6

Robert Bailey “The Pratt Street Riots Reconsidered:  A Case of Overstated Significance?” Maryland Historical Magazine 2003 98(2): 152-171

John Wennersten, “John W. Crisfield and Civil War Politics on Maryland’s Eastern Shore,” Maryland Historical Magazine 2004 99(1): 4-15 Both on e-reserve on Blackwell website

 

Week Nine, Oct. 25 and 27 

Brugger, Chapters 6-7

Finish Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground, pp. 90-206

 

Week Ten, Nov. 1 and 3

Late nineteenth century; Industrialization across the state.

Brugger, Chapter  8

Paper on Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground, Due Nov. 1.

Reserve reading announced in class

 

Week Eleven, Nov. 8 and 10 

The Progressive Era, War, and Temperance

Brugger, Chapter 9  

 

Week Twelve, Nov. 15 and 17

Depression and the War years

Jo Ann Argersinger “Toward a Roosevelt Coalition:  The Democratic Party and the New Deal in
Baltimore”  Maryland Historical Magazine 1987 82(4): 288-305
E-eserve Blackwell website

Brugger, Chapter 10

Term Paper Due in or before class on Thursday  Nov. 17

 

Week Thirteen, Nov. 22 (Nov. 24 Thanksgiving)

Begin Reading Civil War on Race Street Brugger, Chapter 11

 

Week Fourteen, November 29 and December 1

Economic Development

Brugger, Chapter 11

 

Week Fifteen, Dec. 6 and 8

Mid-twentieth-century Maryland; Brugger, Chapter 12

Civil Rights Finish Civil War on Race Street

 

Dates and reading assignments subject to change.

 

Final Exam:  Tuesday December 13, 10:45-1:15 in TETC 252

 

Turn off all phones (including the text messaging feature) before you come into class.