HIS 281 - History of Virginia I, Fall 2000 Course
Course Schedule:
| Meeting dates: | Topics: | Reading assignments: | Students' presentations (Tentative schedule): |
| August 28th | Introduction to course | No assignment | |
| September 4th | No class; Labor Day Holiday | ||
| September 11th | Elizabeth's England: "such stuff as dreams are made on ..." | Dabney 1-9; Morgan 3-24 | "Can an out-of stater become a Virginian"? |
| September 18th | Opechancanough's Virginia: The Calm Before the Storm | Dabney 10-23; Morgan 25-58 | |
| September 25th | John Smith's Virginia: Brewing the Tempest | Dabney 24-34; Morgan 71-107 | |
| October 2nd | John Harvey's Virginia: Sowing Tobacco .. and Disaster | Dabney 35-43; Morgan 108-130 | |
| October 16th | William Berkeley's Virginia: The Eye of the Hurricane | Dabney 44-60; Morgan 133-211 | |
| October 23rd | Nathaniel Bacon's Virginia: Reaping the Whirlwind | Dabney 60-68; Morgan 215-270 | |
| October 30th | Midterm test, on then William Byrd I's Virginia |
Dabney 1-68; Dabney 69-81; Morgan 271-337 |
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| November 6th | William Byrd II's Virginia | Dabney 82-90; Isaac 1-57; selections from Wm. Byrd's diaries | |
| November 13th | John Robinson's Virginia | Dabney 91-99; Isaac 58-114; Morgan 338-362 |
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| November 20th | George Washington's Virginia | Dabney 100-109; Isaac 115-157; Morgan 363-387 | |
| November 27th | Patrick Henry's Virginia | Dabney 110-138; Isaac 161-205 | |
| December 4th | Thomas Jefferson's Virginia | Dabney 139-166; Isaac 209-269 | |
| December 11th | James Madison's Virginia | Dabney 167-183; Isaac 273-322 | |
| December 18th | Second test, on | Dabney 69-183 |
Required and recommended readings are from Virginius Dabney's Virginia: The New Dominion, Edmund Morgan's American Slavery - American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, and Rhys Isaac's The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.