As I explained in class, by next Monday March 29, please read Annette Gordon-Reed's Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings and Jefferson's writings on race and slavery. Then prepare yourself for a little debate. Students with last names beginning with A-L should prepare to take the "guilty" side of the question, last names M-Z the "not guilty." The graduate students can be the jury and ask questions and help decide the penalty if the verdict is guilty.
Students are free to organize themselves and appoint spokespeople, or I will just call on people. Students who are more comfortable with writing or can't come to class can answer in the comment thread below.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Friday, March 03, 2006
Midterm Questions
If there are any questions about the mid-term, please post them here as comments. Someone already e-mailed me to ask about citing lecture notes. Yes, you may do that. Cite the lectures parenthetically as follows: (Class lecture, 3/2/06), changing the date to the correct one. If are citing directly off one of the outlines, which I do not recommend, cite the outline title and date in a footnote or endnote.
Map related to this morning's lecture
This morning when I was discussing the difficulty of travel in early America, I had meant to display the following map show the estimated travel time before and after the transportation revolution of the mid-19th century.
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