{"id":269,"date":"2014-01-23T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/?p=269"},"modified":"2014-01-23T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T00:38:58","slug":"unit-1-a-new-nation-conceived-in-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/2014\/01\/unit-1-a-new-nation-conceived-in-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 1: A New Nation, Conceived in Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During this unit, we explore some foundational texts and ideas of our nation. We began with a session on the Gettysburg Address &#8211; which Wills says &#8220;reinvented the Constitution and repaired its flaws&#8221; and which, according to Widmer literally &#8220;repurposed the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Starting from the vantage of 1863 then invites us to travel backwards to reconsider the founding era, concepts, and people &#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/americanduchess.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/snakes-of-american-revolution.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Dz6jVkLQArc\/ThImIOP6Y2I\/AAAAAAAAE4Y\/JEWi12gTcvU\/s400\/Revolutionary+war+flag.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Tues 28th &#8211; Some Antecedents<\/strong>. Consider how each of these three antecedents will inform the American national project in the late 18th century. How do they provide contrasting\/diverse roots for American idealism?<\/p>\n<p>1) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/mod\/iroquois.asp\">Iroquois Confederacy Constitution<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>John Winthrop, Modell of Christian Charity (1630)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Manuscript original<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/cdm128401.cdmhost.com\/cdm\/compoundobject\/collection\/p16124coll1\/id\/1952\">http:\/\/cdm128401.cdmhost.com\/cdm\/compoundobject\/collection\/p16124coll1\/id\/1952<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Transcript but in Winthrop&#8217;s original English<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/history.hanover.edu\/texts\/winthmod.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/history.hanover.edu\/texts\/winthmod.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A more modern translation in plainer English<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winthropsociety.com\/doc_charity.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.winthropsociety.com\/doc_charity.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oberlin.edu\/faculty\/gkornbl\/H397F10\/Common%20Sense%20-%20excerpts.htm\">Paine, excerpts from <em>Common Sense<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thurs 30th &#8211; Founding Fathers<\/strong>. 4 Readings: <a href=\"http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/subject_menus\/fed.asp\">Federalist 10 + Federalist 51<\/a> (skim\/reading for main ideas is OK), &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoriginalamericanmind.com\/philosophers-locke.html\">John Locke: Father of the Revolution<\/a>,&#8221; and one important scholar&#8217;s perspective = Gordon Wood, <a href=\"http:\/\/spot.colorado.edu\/~mcguire\/wood.htm\">&#8220;The Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/journal-c.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-259\" alt=\"journal-c\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/journal-c.gif\" width=\"114\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><strong>Journal Prompt #2<\/strong> &#8211; Write the second journal entry on your choice of texts from this week&#8217;s readings (any or all). What foundational ideas have you identified in these documents? What intellectual currents informed the nation&#8217;s founding? Are some of these currents and ideas in conflict, and if so, how? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During this unit, we explore some foundational texts and ideas of our nation. 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