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• HST 346u, sec TML, crn 14497.

Goals:  By the end of the term, students should:

• Master the basic chronology of the American Revolution.
• Understand the structure of the historiography of the American Revolution.
• Know how to critique a secondary work on the American Revolution, identify its strengths and weaknesses, and explain how it fits into the larger historiography.
• Know how to analyze a primary source on the American Revolution, and explain how it could be used to support a particular position in the historiography.

Readings:  Required readings include three books, available through the PSU Bookstore:

• Ferling, John, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (Oxford UP, 2004).  ISBN: 0-19-517600-6
• Greene, Jack P., Colonies to Nation, 1763-1789: A Documentary History of the American Revolution (W.W. Norton, 1975).  ISBN: 0-393-09229-1
• Nash, Gary, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (Penguin, 2005).  ISBN: 0-14-303720-X

Reading assignment for week 1:

• Nash, Unknown American Revolution, intro. & chapter 1.
  
• Greene, Colonies to Nation, selections 1-3.
  

Contact Prof. Thomas Luckett:

• Office hours:  by appointment, 441-H Cramer Hall.
• Phone: 503-725-3982.
• Email:  see faculty directory.

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