Midterm Test—30 % of grade. Book review—10 %. Final Exam—60 %.

Review: 4-page critical review of an assigned or recommended book or a bloc or theme of Boles’ text.

John B. Boles. The South through Time. Part I

Douglas Egerton. Gabriel’s Rebellion

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Within the Plantation Household

Jan.  4—Ways to Think about the South and Its History

	6—A Survey of the Map
	8—Founding of the Southern Settlements
	11—Slaves, Plantations, and Colonial Development
	13—18th-Century Society in the Southern Colonies
	15—The American Revolution and Its Aftermath
	18—Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. No class.
	20—The South in the new United States
	22—Plantation Society Matures
	25—Other Sectors of  “Old South” Society
	27—Slavery Controversy and Proslavery Assertion
	29-- Steps toward Southern Cultural Autonomy

Feb.  1—Steps toward Southern Political Autonomy

	3—The Confederate Bid for Independence
	5—Confederate Contradictions and Crisis
	8--Midterm Test

Boles. The South through Time. Part II

Pete Daniel. Breaking the Land.

David L. Chappell. Inside Agitators

Feb. 10—The Fall of the Slaveholding South

	12—Reconstruction: Ways to a New South
	15—Reconstruction Social Patterns and Conflict
	17—From Radical Reconstruction to Conservative “Redemption”
	19—“The New South”: Economic Visions and Realities
	22—Agrarian Revolt in the 1890s
	24—Hardening Patterns of Southern Racism ca. 1900
	26—Southern Institutions & Life in the Progressive Era. Review due.

Mar.  1—Southern Economy in the 1920s and 1930s

	3—The Southern Cultural “Renaissance”
	5—Southern Politics in the New Deal-Fair Deal Era
	8—Civil Rights and “Massive Resistance,” 1950s-60s
	10—Changes in Southern Patterns, 1960s-1980s
	12—Southern Identity in the Late 20th Century
	Mar. 17 (Wed.)—Final Exam, 8:00 AM. Bring “green books.”