Required Reading Matthew Algeo, Pedestrianism. (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2014) Pedestrianism Visual Culture Gallery Precept Assignment We will be doing an in-precept exercise grounded in Pedestrianism. We will simulate a city council meeting debate on whether or not the Astley Belt Race should be permitted to take place at Madison Square Garden during March 1879. Dickinson… MORE
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Required Reading Stone, John Augustus, Metamora: Or, The Last of the Wampanoags An Indian Tragedy (1829) Bean, Annemarie, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara, ed. Inside the Minstrel Mask, Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996). Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0819563002, 324 pp. If you are pressed for time, focus especially on the introduction by… MORE
This week you are reading George C. Foster’s New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches: With Here and There a Streak of Sunshine first published as a newspaper series of “sketches” in New York City in 1850. It was then collected into the volume you will read. I encourage you to focus on… MORE
Opening Primary Source for Teaching Reconstruction: The Jourdon Anderson Letter “Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you… MORE