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Date

Topic

1

September 3

Introduction: The Lost World of Maritime America

2

September  8

Waters in Motion, Exotic and Local

3

September 10

The Making of Ships

4

September 15

Aids to Navigation

5

September  17

Europe Sails Forth

6

September 22

Comings Ashore,  I: The Chesapeake

7

September  24

Comings Ashore, II:   New England

8

September 29

Finding Their Places in the AtlanticWorld

9

October 1

Ist Hour Exam

10.

October 6

Maritime America in 1750

11.

October 8

The Maritime Origins of the American Revolution

12.

October 13

The “Navigational Interest” in the “Critical Period”

13.

October 15

Federalism and the Idea of an American  Navy

14.

October 20

The Jeffersonian Turnabout: Louisiana & the Embargo

15.

October 22

The War of 1812: At Sea & On the Lakes

16

October 27

The Waning of the Navigational Interest in American Politics

17

October 29

2^nd Hour Exam

18

November 5

Technology Commands, I: Canals & Inland Waters

19

November 10

Technology Commands, II: Steam and Iron

20

November 12

Try All Ports: The Heroic Age of American Maritime Commerce

21

November 17

The Sea as Work Place, I: Life Before the Mast

22

November 19

The Sea as Work Place, II: The African-American Experience

23

November 24

The Sea as Work Place, III:  Women at Sea & Wives Ashore

24

December 1

Whaling as Business; Whaling as Romance

25

December 3

Technological Hubris: The Case of the American Clipper Ships

26

December 8

The Persistence of the Sea in the American Imagination

27

DTBA

Final Exam