HISTORY/ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 283
Cultural and Environmental History
of Mount Holyoke College
Spring 2006
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Robert Schwartz |
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Office Hours: |
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206 Skinner Hall |
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Tues. & Thurs., 4-5, and by appointment |
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telephone: x2465 |
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Aime DeGrenier RIS adegreni@MtHolyoke.edu |
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Mild Boonipat Web Tech sboonipa@MtHolyoke.edu |
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Course Web Site http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist283/
Discussion Forum http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist283/forum/forum.html
Archives and Special Collections: Digital Image Data base
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/imagebase/index.html
Schwartz, MHC Campus site: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/campus/
Books available for purchase at the Odyssey:
Helen L. Horowitz, Alma Mater, 2nd edition, U Massachusetts Press (pb)
Anne Carey Edmonds, A Memory Book. Mount Holyoke College, 1837-1897 (pb)
Packet 1.
D.W. Meinig, ed., The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. Geographical Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979)
D. W. Meinig, “The Beholding Eye. Ten Versions of the Same Scene,” ibid.
___________, “Symbolic Landscapes. Some Idealizations of American Communities,” ibid.
Peirce F. Lewis, “Axioms for Reading the Landscape. Some Guides to the American Scene,” ibid.
D.W. Meinig, “Symbolic Landscapes: Models of American Community,” in ibid.
Marwyn S. Samuels, “The Biography of Landscape. Cause and Culpability,” in ibid.
Yi-Fu Tuan, “Thought and Landscape. The Eye and the Mind’s Eye,” ibid.
David Lowenthal, “Age and Artifact. Dilemmas of Appreciation,” ibid.
Chapter 3, Traces and Storytelling, 42-57
Chapter 6, Oral Documents
Chapter 7, Visual Documents, 128-146
Chapter 8, Artifacts
Chapter 9, Landscape and Buildings, 165-179
Anne Whiston Spirn, “Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted,” in Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, ed. William Cronon (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).
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Krupabai Satthianadhan, Saguna : The First Autobiographical Novel in English by an Indian Woman, edited by Chandani Lokuge. 1st ed. New Delhi, Oxford University Press. 1998
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Environmental & Ecological History
David R. Foster, Thoreau’s Country. A Journey through a Transformed Landscape (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999): “Three Landscapes in New England History (8-14); “The Cultural Landscape of New England” [Views of the Nineteenth-Century Landscape; Daily Life; The Farmer as Hero](15-47); “Landscape Change (209-220)”; “Insights into the Ecology and Conservation of the Land (220-229)
Missions in General
Helen B. Calder; Alice Seymour Browne; Charlotte B. Deforest; Elizabeth Gordon; and Grace H. Knapp, “Mount Holyoke’s Missionary Influence, Life and Light for Woman 42 (October 1912): 413-421
Robert, Dana Lee. American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1996. Chapter 3 The Missionary Teacher: 2. Mary Lyon and the Systemization of Missionary Preparation; 3 The Collapse of the Lyon-Anderson Consensus; The Shape of American Women’s Mission Thought, A Concluding Thought.
Missions in India
Amanda Porterfield. Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Chapter 1 “The Place of Anebellum Missionary Women in American Religious History;” Chapter 5 “The Presence and impact of Mary Lyon’s Students in Maharashtra;” Conclusion.
Correspondence of Ruth Parker White (1895-1989), Class of 1917. MHC Archives
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, South India. The American Madura Mission (Boston, 1924?)
Missions in Turkey
Barbara J. Merguerian, "Mt. Holyoke Seminary in Bitlis: providing an American education for Armenian women." Armenian Review, vol. 43, no. 1/169 (Spring 1990), pp. 31-65. (On order ILL)
Barbara Reeves-Ellington, "A Vision of Mount Holyoke in the Ottoman Balkans: American Cultural Transfer, Bulgarian Nation-Building and Women's Educational Reform, 1858-1870." Gender & History, 16, no. 1 (2004): 146-171. (CP 3)
Charlotte E. (1839-1915) and Mary A. C. (1841-1913) Ely Papers (Class of 1861). MHC Archives. Letters from Bitlis, Mount Holyoke Seminary for Armenian Girls, dated 1882, undated, 1889; Letter of Mrs. Harrison A. Maynard describing the genocide, “The Days of Terror in Bitlis.”
Vickery, Bess P. Mount Holyoke Courageous: A Call to the Near East. New York: Carlton Press Corp., 1994. Foreward, Introduction, Chapter 3 The George Cushing Knapp Family; Chapter 4 The Ely Sisters; Chapter 5 The Mission at Van—the Raynolds Family.
Missions in China
Hunter, Jane. The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984, Chapter 3 “Single Women and Mission Community.”
Papers of Viette Brown Sprague (1846-1923), Class of 1871. MHC Archives. “Work in Kalgon” (China).
Papers of Alice Browne Frame (1878-1941), Class of 1900. MHC Archives. “General Report of Woman’s Work of Tungchow Station, North China Mission for the Year 1916” (As reported by Mrs. Wang of Wheat Chaff Alley, Tungchow, to her visiting grandmother—a Chinese woman describes her experiences with the Christian Mission.)
Alice Seymour Browne, “The New Woman in Old China,” reprinted from Life and Light, 1911.
1. Regular attendance and informed participation in class discussions. (10 percent of grade) [One unexcused absence permitted; additional absences will detract from the final grade.]
2. Short written assignments and oral presentations of work in class (30 percent of grade).
3. Construction of a component of the Historical Atlas of MHC in collaboration with the class. (60 percent)
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Jan. 31 |
History in the Back Yard and the Wider World |
Horowitz, introduction. Historical Atlas: www.mtholyoke.edu/go/atlas |
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Feb. 2
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The Historical Atlas Project |
Historical Atlas: www.mtholyoke.edu/go/atlas Read one of the Atlas components; write a short summary of main points and evaluation of the use of images. Kyvig and Marty, Nearby History, Chapter 7, Visual Documents, 128-146 (CP 1) Optional: Kyvig and Marty, Nearby History, chap. 1, Why Nearby History? Pp. 14-19, 28-41; chap. 9 Landscapes and Buildings (CP 1)Schwartz, Campus site http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/campus/ |
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Feb. 7 |
Mount Holyoke: The Surroundings and the Beginnings |
Horowitz, chap. 1. Mount Holyoke. Edmonds, “Mount Holyoke Female Seminary,” pp. 9-54. Choose an image to post on the web and comment upon in class. Optional: Horowitz, chap. 2 Vassar |
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Feb. 9 |
Tools for the Historical Atlas |
Write and post an abstract of Horowitz, chap. 1. Workshop on Dreamweaver |
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Feb. 14 |
The Rise of the Women’s College |
Edmonds, “From Seminary to College,” pp. 55-84. Choose an image to comment upon in class. Horowitz, chap. 14, Mount Holyoke, A Larger Classroom Optional: Horowitz, 3 Wellesley; 4 Beginnings of College Life; 5 Smith; 6 The Cottage System; 11 Student Life |
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Feb. 16 |
Mount Holyoke Abroad: Early Missions
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Porterfield, Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries, chaps. 1, 5, and conclusion. (CP 3) Helen B. Calder; Alice Seymour Browne; Charlotte B. Deforest; Elizabeth Gordon; and Grace H. Knapp, “Mount Holyoke’s Missionary Influence, Life and Light for Woman 42 (October 1912): 413-421 (CP 3) Optional: Robert, American Women in Mission, chap. 3 The Missionary Teacher: 2. Mary Lyon and the Systemization of Missionary Preparation; 3 The Collapse of the Lyon-Anderson Consensus; The Shape of American Women’s Mission Thought, A Concluding Thought. (CP 3) Barbara J. Merguerian. "Mt. Holyoke Seminary in Bitlis: providing an American education for Armenian women." Armenian Review, vol. 43, no. 1/169 (Spring 1990), pp. 31-65. (On order ILL) Barbara Reeves-Ellington "A Vision of Mount Holyoke in the Ottoman Balkans: American Cultural Transfer, Bulgarian Nation-Building and Women's Educational Reform, 1858-1870." Gender & History, 16, no. 1 (2004): 146-171. (CP 3)
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Feb. 21 |
An Indian Woman’s View of Christianity, English culture, and Missionaries |
Satthianadhan, Saguna, pp. xi-xv, 27-41, 77-86, 98-108, 138-150
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Feb. 23 |
Mount Holyoke and Later Missions: Ruth Parker White (class of 1917) and the Madura Mission in India |
South India. The American Madura Mission (1924) Correspondence of Ruth Parker White (1895-1989) selections
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Feb. 28 |
Mount Holyoke: Reading the Landscape and the Built Environment |
Kyvig and Marty, Nearby History, chap. 9 Landscapes and Buildings (CP 1) Meinig, “The Beholding Eye” (CP 1) Optional: Kyvig and Marty, Nearby History, chap. 3, Traces and Storytelling; (CP 1); Peirce Lewis, “Axioms for Reading the Landscape. Some Guides to the American Scene (CP 1)
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March 2 |
Ecology, Environment,
and Art |
Explore Singer’s web site and http://www.michaelsinger.com/ Anne Whiston Spirn, “Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted” (CP 1) |
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March 7 |
Introduction to the College Archives Jennifer King and Patricia Albright |
Optional: Edmonds, Edmonds, “The Wooley Presidency,” pp. 85-120 |
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March 9 |
Reading the Landscape Guest: Mary Scipio, landscape architect |
Reading to be assigned |
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March 14 |
Changes in the Land: Mount Holyoke and the New England Environment |
Foster, Thoreau’s Country, “Landscape Change (209-220)”; “Insights into the Ecology and Conservation of the Land (220-229) Research in Archives for a document on the MHC landscape. Post on the Web Site. |
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March 16 |
Written Assignment due: no class |
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Break |
March 18-26 |
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March 28 |
Detecting Environmental History |
Yi-Fu Tuan, “Thought and Landscape. The Eye and the Mind’s Eye,” (CP 1)
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March 30 |
Stewardship for MHC |
Schwartz, “Harmonizing Change and Preservation Some Reflections on the Landscape of Lower Lake Road” http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/campus/reflections_on_lower_lake_open_letter.htm Research in Archives for a document on the MHC landscape. Post on the Web Site. |
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April 4 |
Missions in Turkey |
Barbara J. Merguerian, "Mt. Holyoke Seminary in Bitlis: providing an American education for Armenian women." Armenian Review, vol. 43, no. 1/169 (Spring 1990), pp. 31-65. (On order) Charolotte E. (1839-1915) and Mary A. C. (1841-1913) Ely Papers (Class of 1861). MHC Archives. Letters from Bitlis, Mount Holyoke Seminary for Armenian Girls, dated 1882, undated, 1889; Letter of Mrs. Harrison A. Maynard describing the genocide, “The Days of Terror in Bitlis.” Optional: Vickery, Bess P. Mount Holyoke Courageous, Foreward, Introduction, Chapter 3 The George Cushing Knapp Family; Chapter 4 The Ely Sisters; Chapter 5 The Mission at Van—the Raynolds Family |
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April 6 |
Taking Stock: Research Projects |
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April 11 |
Archival Research, Oral Interviews, and Progress Reports |
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April 13 |
Archival Research, Oral Interviews, and Progress Reports |
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April 18 |
Archival Research, Oral Interviews, and Progress Reports |
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April 20 |
Archival Research, Oral Interviews, and Progress Reports |
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April 25 |
Archival Research, Oral Interviews, and Progress Reports |
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April 27 |
Archival Research, Oral Interviews, and Progress Reports |
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May 2 |
Final Presentations of Atlas Components |
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May 4 |
Final Presentations of Atlas Components |
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May 9 |
Final Presentations of Atlas Components |
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