Week of	Topic	Readings
Jan. 11	The Setting Jan. 13--Bounding Appalachia
Jan. 16	Indians and Europeans Jan. 16--The First Appalachians Jan. 18--The First European Appalachians Jan. 20--Colonial Appalachian Society	Caudill, Night Comes to the Cumberlands, 3-31
Jan. 23	From the Revolution to Removal Jan. 23--Colonial Appalachian Society (Cont'd) Jan. 25--The Revolution on the Appalachian Frontier Jan. 27--The Postrevolutionary Land Grab	Dunn, Cades Cove, 1-62
Jan. 30	Antebellum Appalachia Jan. 30--The Cherokee--Renascence and Removal Feb. 1--Rural Appalachia in the Nineteenth Century--I Feb. 3--Rural Appalachia in the Nineteenth Century--II	Dunn, Cades Cove, 63-121
Feb. 6	Slavery, the South, and the Civil War Feb. 6--Sections and Slavery Feb. 8--Appalachia and the Civil War	Dunn, Cades Cove,123-141; Caudill, Night Comes, 35-45.
February 13--FIRST HOUR TEST
Feb. 13	The Late Nineteenth Century Feb. 15--The Crisis of Late-Nineteenth-Century Appalachia Feb. 17--Late-Nineteenth-Century Politics: Mountain Republicanism	Caudill, Night Comes, 46-58; Dunn, Cades Cove,143-219; Waller, Feud, 1-135
Feb. 20	The "Discovery" of Appalachia Feb. 20--The Invention of Appalachia I: The Local Colorists Feb. 22--The Invention of Appalachia II: The Uplifters Feb. 24--The Invention of Appalachia III: The Modernizers	Waller, Feud, 139-249; Fox, Trail of the Lonesome Pine (begin)
February 24--TERM PAPER TOPICS DUE
Feb. 27	The Onset of Industrialization: I Feb. 27--Appalachian Underdevelopment and the Coming of the Railroad Mar. 1--The First Phase: Railroads and the Abortive Iron Boom Mar. 3--Appalachian Industrialization: Timber	Fox, Trail of the Lonesome Pine (finish)

Mar. 13	The Onset of Industrialization: II Mar. 13--Appalachian Industrialization: Coal Mar. 15--The World of the Camps: I Mar. 17--The World of the Camps: II	Caudill, Night Comes, 61-137
Wednesday, March 22--Second Hour Test [Note New Date!]
Mar. 20	Worker Culture and Labor Conflict Mar. 24--Labor and Coal: Quiescence and Rebellion
Mar. 27	The 1920s and 1930s: "Modernization" and Upheaval Mar. 27--Labor and Coal: Struggle and Crisis Mar. 29--Appalachian Labor and the New Deal Mar. 31--The Federal Government and the Age of Conservation	Caudill, Night Comes, 141-248
Apr. 3	Federal Involvement--Forestry, Parks, TVA Apr. 3--The Cautionary Tale of the TVA: I Apr. 5--The Cautionary Tale of the TVA: II Apr. 7--Postwar Appalachia	Dunn, Cades Cove, 221-257
Apr. 10	The Postwar Years--Poverty and Response Apr. 10--The Great (Appalachian) Migration Apr. 12--The 1960s and After: The Appalachian Poverty Wars	Caudill, Night Comes, 251-394; Whisnant, All That Is Native and Fine, 5-179
Apr. 17	Mountain Culture: Music Apr. 17--Guest Lecturer: Rachel Donaldson Apr. 19--Mountain Music: From Old-Time to Bluegrass Apr. 21--Guest Lecturer: Tim Reynolds on Sacred Harp	Whisnant, 181-267
April 19 [NEW DATE!]--TERM PAPERS DUE
Apr. 24--LAST CLASS

Thursday, April 27, 9:00 AM--PRIMARY FINAL EXAMINATION, WH 115

 Monday, May 1, Noon--ALTERNATE FINAL EXAMINATION, WH 115

Nuts 'n' Bolts

There will be two midterm examinations in the course of the semester, which will count 25 per cent of the final grade each. The final examination will count 30 per cent of the final grade.

 In addition, each student will submit a term paper on an instructor-approved topic of the student's choosing. Term paper proposals are to be submitted to the instructor by Friday, February 24; they should be no more than a page in length, and include the subject, the proposed research strategy, and a brief list of sources. Primary documents (including oral histories) are not required, but their use is encouraged. Term papers will be due Monday, April 17. Except in clear medical or family emergencies, extensions will be granted only if applied for at least one day in advance; past due papers will lose a fraction of a Vanderbilt grade point for each day (including weekends) overdue.

 The attention of the student is called to Chapter 2 of the Vanderbilt University Student Handbook, dealing with the honor system. The standards prescribed therein are the adopted standards for this course.

Readings:

Mandatory:

Harry M. Caudill, Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area (Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001)

Durwood Dunn, Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988)

Altina Waller, Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988)

John Fox, Jr., The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, reprint ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984)

David E. Whisnant, All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983)

Optional:

John A. Williams, Appalachia: A History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)

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