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** A MORE PERFECT UNION (YEAR TWO) WIKISPACE: [] **
NEWS UPDATE: **FINAL PROJECT DUE SEPTEMBER 23, 2009. Please Post Final Project Topic Due AUGUST 1, 2009.**

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Welcome back! Below you will find the prompt for the next paper and the Week One: Reading List. We have also broken the syllabus down by date in the left margin. On these pages you will find guiding questions to focus your reading, schedules, and abbreviated syllabi. Please add your thoughts and questions about the guiding questions to the discussion threads on the date specific pages. See you July!

PAPER DUE (July 7, 2009)
====In a three-page paper discuss five major points or insights you acquired from reading the letters in Kammen and support each insight with a quotation, or a paraphrase of the quotation, from the letters. Plan to briefly present your points in the July 7 breakout session. For more information and guidelines of your paper, go to FAQ-Paper 2.====

July 7th ** || Bernstein, R.B || //[|Thomas Jefferson] // || pp. ix to 54 || July 8th** || Bernstein, R.B. || // Book of Readings // ||  · Prologue · The Confederation in Quandary · The American Revolution as a Constitutional Crisis · History Quotations  || · pp. 10-18 (The Articles of Confederation) || July 9 ** || Bernstein, R.B || // [|Thomas Jefferson] // || pp. 55-134 || pp.115-180 || July 10 ** || Bailyn, Bernard || // Book of Readings // || Article on John Adams ||
 * ** Week One: Reading List ** ||
 * ** Date ** || ** Author ** || ** Title ** || ** Selection ** ||
 * **Tuesday,
 * ^  || Madison, James || “[|Vices of the Political System]” || all ||
 * ^  || Adams, John || “[|Thoughts on Government].” || all ||
 * ^  || Adair, Douglas || //[|Fame and the Founding Fathers] // || Chapter 6 ||
 * **Wednesday,
 * ^  || Kammen, Michael || [|The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History] ||  ·  pp. 38-50 (The Constitution)
 * ** Thursday,
 * ^  || Bernstein, R.B || // [|Founding Fathers Reconsidered] // || pp. 3-38
 * **Friday,

July 13 ** || Berkin, Carol   || //<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fefecd; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Revolutionary Mothers //  || <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fefecd; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Chapters 1 & 10   || July 14 ** || //<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #d7ffff; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal;">Berkin, Carol //  || //<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #d7ffff; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution //  || <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #d7ffff; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal;">  All || § <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fedcdc; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; mozbackgroundclip: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundinlinepolicy: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundorigin: -moz-initial;">Federalist Papers, nos. 12, 13, 30, 31. || **<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #feeac8; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">July 16 **  || <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #feeac8; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; mozbackgroundclip: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundinlinepolicy: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundorigin: -moz-initial;">Staloff, Darren || //<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #feeac8; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">The Politics of the Enlightenment //  || <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #feeac8; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">pp. 234-361  ||
 * ** Week Two: Reading List ** ||
 * ** Date ** || ** Author **  || ** Title **  || ** Selection **  ||
 * **<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fefecd; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Monday,
 * ^  || || //<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fefecd; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Book of Readings //  || <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fefecd; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Primary sources on women’s role in the Revolution.   ||
 * **<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #d7ffff; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Tuesday,
 * **<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fedcdc; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Wednesday, July 15 ** || || //<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fedcdc; font-size: 11pt;">Book of Readings //  || §  <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fedcdc; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; mozbackgroundclip: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundinlinepolicy: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundorigin: -moz-initial;">“[|First Report on the Public Credit]”
 * ^  || <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fedcdc; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Staloff, Darren   || //<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fedcdc; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding. // || <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #fedcdc; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">pp. 3-131   ||
 * **<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #feeac8; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; mozbackgroundclip: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundinlinepolicy: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundorigin: -moz-initial;">Thursday, **
 * ^  || <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #feeac8; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; mozbackgroundclip: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundinlinepolicy: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundorigin: -moz-initial;"> || //<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #feeac8; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; mozbackgroundclip: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundinlinepolicy: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundorigin: -moz-initial;">Book of Readings // || <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #feeac8; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; mozbackgroundclip: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundinlinepolicy: -moz-initial; mozbackgroundorigin: -moz-initial;">Selections from //Notes from Virginia// ||