W&M in the Jazz Age, Spring
2008
Tues, 2:00-3:20;
Thurs 2:00-4:20
in James Blair 219
James P. Whittenburg (jpwhit@wm.edu)
Carolyn S. Whittenburg (cswhit@wm.edu)
David S. McCarthy (dsmcca@wm.edu)
Louse L. Kale (llkale@wm.edu)
Melissa E. Engimann (meengi@wm.edu)
Office Hours will be on Tuesdays by appointment.
Please consult Mr. McCarthy for appointments.
This experimental course will focus on the History
of the College of William
& Mary during the presidency of J. A. C. Chandler, 1919-1934. During
the first few weeks, however, we will undertake a review of the development
of the College, and to some extent, higher education generally, from the
colonial period through the end of the First World War.
Requirements & Grades: Students generally want to know every
little thing about the grading system, but truth be
known, it is all pretty-much a subjective process and in the end we will
evaluate the totality of your work over the course of the semester. Admittedly,
many students find this ambiguity unsettling during the semester, but few
seem to think the grades unfair in the end. Keep in mind that A
grades are reserved for EXCEPTIONAL work, and to win an A
for the course means hitting on just about all cylinders just about all
of the time. The grade of B covers a much wider range of perfectly
acceptable, even superior, performance. Any student who scrambles over
all the course requirements and delivers even a modest effort should have
no trouble attaining a C--acceptable, but undistinguished. To receive
a final grade lower than C, a student in this class would simply
have to stop trying. I do use pluses and minuses, by the way.
We will divide the course into four components, each of which will determine
25% of your class grade:
I.Research
Paper: Each
student will write a research paper of 10-12 pages on some aspect of the
History of the College
of William
& Mary during the presidency of J. A. C. Chandler selected from a list
of topics we’ll distribute next week. The research paper should be written
from both primary and secondary sources and should follow the conventions
of the Chicago Manual of Style. It will be due at class time on
Thursday, 17 April.
II. Group Presentation:
All students will participate in a group project that will culminate in
a team presentation on some aspect of life at the College
of William
& Mary between the world wars selected from a list of topics that we’ll
provide next week. Each project can use as much as half a class period.
Multimedia presentations are encouraged. We anticipate teams of four-five
people and will assign team members on the basis of preference for topics.
III. Class
Participation:
Each of the instructors for this course has a different teaching style,
but we will all expect you to be ready to discuss all elements of the course.
That makes it very important for you to keep up with the readings and to
attend all the lectures and campus tours. Missing class without advance
instructor approval will greatly detract from your grade in this area.
IV. Final Exam:
The final exam will contain both essay and short-answer questions. It is
scheduled for the 1:30-4:30
slot on 30 April.
Schedule:
Keep in mind that this is an experimental course offered
for the first time this semester, that it is a team-taught affair, and
that it is to some degree dependent on the schedules of outside scholars.
Bottom Line: We will almost surely have to move some things around as the
semester goes along.
THURS. JAN 17---All
Course Overview
Readings:
Jennifer Agee Jones, “ ‘The Very Heart and Centre
of the Country’: From Middle Plantation to Williamsburg,” in Robert P.
Mccubbin, ed., Williamsburg, Virginia: A City Before the State (2000),
pp.15-23.
TUES, JAN 22--- J.P. Whittenburg
W&M during the Colonial Era
Readings:
Godson, Johnson, Sherman, Tate, Walker. The College
of William and Mary: A History, Two Volumes (1993), vol 1. (hereafter,
W&M History)
“Foundations,” pp. 3-21
“Beginnings, 1693-1705,” pp.23-47
“Despair, Hope, 1706-1743,” pp. 49-80
“Turmoil, 1743-1768,” pp. 81-110
Frederick Rudolph, The American College and University:
A History (1990).
“The Colonial College,” pp. 3-22.
“The Legacy of the Revolution,” pp. 23-43;
THURS, JAN 24---Louise Kale
Illustrated lecture: Campus Development at W&M:
1693-1859
Readings:
E-exhibit: Gallery I (“Building a College: The Early
Campus of W&M”)
Glenn Patton, “The College of William & Mary,
Williamsburg and the Enlightenment,” Journal of the Society of Architectural
Historians, 29 (March 1970): 24-32.
W&M History, vol.1:
College and Revolution, 1769-1782,” pp. 111-141.
Paul Venable Turner, Campus: An American Planning
Tradition (1984), pp. 3-50.
Carl Lounsbury, “Ornaments of Civic Aspiration:
The Public Buildings of Williamsburg,” Williamsburg, Virginia: A City before
the State, 1699–1999, Robert P. Maccubbin, ed., pp. 25–38.
James D. Kornwolf, "So Good a Design": The Colonial
Campus of the College of William and Mary, pp.29-73 and 121-153.
TUES, JAN 29--- J.P. Whittenburg
From the Revolution to the Civil War at William
& Mary
Readings:
Mark Wenger,” Thomas Jefferson, The College of William
& Mary, and the University of Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography, 103:3 (July 1995): pp. 339-374.
Robert F. Pace, Halls of Honor: College Men in the
Old South (2004), 82-97.
W&M History, vol.1:
“Madison and Decline, 1782-1812”, pp. 165-198.
“How Not to Run College, 1812-1825,” pp. 199-225.
“Southernism, 1836-1846” pp. 247-266.
“Recovery, Disaster, 1846-1862”, pp. 267-290.
THURS JAN 31—Melissa Engimann
Walking Tour: The Civil War at William & Mary
(meet in the Grammar School Room of the Wren Building)
Followed by: Tour of Special Collections Research
Center at Swem Library
Readings:
W&M History, vol. 1:
“Rebuild, 1862-1869, pp. 333-356.
Carson O. Hudson, Jr., Civil War Williamsburg, Williamsburg
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997), entire.
Melissa E. Engimann, “Primary Source Packet - The
Civil War at William and Mary,” entire.
TUES, FEB 5--- Louise Kale
W&M in Post Civil War Era/Review of W&M
in the 19th century
Readings; W&M History, vol. 1:
“Survival, Salvation, 1870-1888,” pp.357-409.
Joseph Stetar, “In Search of a Direction:
Southern Higher Education after the Civil War,” History of Higher Education
Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Autumn 1985), pp.341-367. .
THURS, FEB 7---David McCarthy
Colleges and Universities during the Progressive
Era
Readings:
Frederick Rudolph, The American College and University:
A History (1990).
“Flowering of the University Movement,” pp. 329-354.
“Progressivism and the Universities,” pp. 355-372.
“The Rise of Football” pp, 373-393.
TUES, FEB 12---C.S. Whittenburg
The College, Women, and Higher Education in the
Progressive Era
W&M History, vol. 2:
“Risen from Ashes, 1888-1906,” pp. 439-480
“Modern College, 1906-1919,” pp. 481-515.
Amy Thompson McCandless, “Maintaining the Spirit
and Tone of Robust Manliness: The Opposition to Coeducation at Southern
Public Universities,” in McCandless, The Past in the Present: Women’s Higher
Education in the Twentieth-Century American South (1999), pp.83-120.
Anne Hobson Freeman, “Mary Munford’s Fight for a
College for Women Co-Ordinate with the University of Virginia,” The Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 78, No. 4 (1970). pp. 481-491
THURS, FEB 14— Louise Kale
Illustrated Lecture: The Forgotten Campus: Construction
at W&M during the Ewell and Tyler Years.
Readings:
Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, “The College in the Years
1861-1865” [a report to the Board of Visitors, July 5, 1865], William and
Mary College Quarterly, 2nd Ser., Vol. 3, No. 4, October 1923, pp. 221-230.
Robert M. Hughes, “’S-I-X-T-Y Y-E-A-R-S A-G-O’:
Baccalaureate Address of Robert M. Hughes at the College of William and
Mary Final Day, June 12, 1933,” William and Mary College Quarterly, 2nd
Ser., Vol. 13, No. 3, July 1933, pp. 195-202.
TUES, FEB 19---David McCarthy
America and World War I
Readings:
Thomas J. Knock, To End All Wars (1992), Chp. 8,
"'If the War Is Too Strong': The Travail of Progressive Internationalism
and the Fourteen Points," pp. 123-147
Anthony Gaughan, "Woodrow Wilson and the Rise of Militant
Interventionism in the South," The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 65,
No. 4 (November 1999), pp. 771-808 [], pp. 771-808.
Paul L. Murphy, World War I and the Origins of Civil
Liberties in the United States (1979), pp. 128-132.
THURS, FEB. 21---Guest: James Axtell
Higher Education in the United States before the
Second World War
Readings:
David O. Levine, The American College and the Culture
of Aspiration (Cornell University Press, 1986).
“The Middle-Class Culture on the Campus,” pp. 113-135.
“Discrimination in College Admissions,” pp. 136-161.
James Axtell, The Making of Princeton University
(Princeton University Press, 2006).
“Getting In” pp. 118-143.
TUES, FEB 26—C.S. Whittenburg
J.A.C. Chandler’s Preparation for the Presidency
of the College of William & Mary
Readings:
Michael Dennis, Lessons In Progress: State Universities
and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920 ( 20010, pp. 1-13.
Carolyn Sparks Whittenburg, President J.A.C. Chandler
and the first women faculty at the College of William and Mary (PhD dissertation,
College of William & Mary, 2004), (Hereafter, SW Dissertation).
“Training for the Presidency: JAC Chandler’s
Early Career,” pp. 21-65;
“Preparation for the Presidency: JACC in Public
Education,” pp.66-115.
THURS, FEB 28—C.S. Whittenburg
J.A.C. Chandler and Student Life
Readings:
W&M History, vol. 2:
“Students and Student Life,” pp. 593-610
CSW Dissertation:
“College Growth,” pp. 134-140.
Lynn Gordon, “The Gibson Girl Goes to College: Popular
Culture and Women’s Higher Education in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920,”
American Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Summer 1987), pp.211-230.
TUES, MAR 4
SPRING BREAK
THURS, MAR 6
SPRING BREAK
TUES, MAR 11—C.S. Whittenburg
J.A.C. Chandler and the Women of William & Mary
Readings:
CSW Dissertation:
“Chandler in Charge,” pp. 251-303.
W&M History, vol. 2:
“Administration and Faculty during the Chandler
Years,” pp 579-592.
Patricia Graham, “Expansion and Exclusion: A History
of Women in American Higher Education,” Signs, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Summer 1978),
pp.759-773.
THURS, MAR 13—Louise Kale
Illustrated lecture: The Colonial Revival Campus
at W&M
Readings:
E-exhibit: Gallery II (“Building a College: The
Colonial Revival Campus at W&M
Charles M. Robinson, “The College of William and
Mary,”, ca. 1927 (draft typescript). CW&M, University Archives, College
Papers, folder 225, pp. 19–35.
TUES, MAR 18—C.S. Whittenburg
The Chandler Empire
Readings:
J. A. C. Chandler, The Romance and Renaissance of
W&M. (circa. 1924).
CSW Dissertation,
“Funding” pp.151-160.
W&M History, vol. 2:
“Julius A. C. Chandler and the Transformation
of William and Mary,” pp. 541-559.
“Program & Curriculum,” pp. 561-578.
THURS, MAR 20— Visiting
Lecturer: Carl Lounsbury (moved from March 25)
The Changing Perception
of Williamsburg
Readings:
Carl Lounsbury, “Beaux
Arts Ideals and Colonial Reality: The Reconstruction of Williamsburg’s
Capitol, 1928-1934,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,
vol. 49 (December 1990): 373-389.
TUES, MAR 25— Guest Lecturer:
Ed Chappell (moved from March 20)
Walking Tour: The Nature
of the Colonial Revival Campus at W&M
Readings: To Be Assigned
THURS, MAR 27— Guest Lecturer:
Susan Kern (moved from April 10)
Walking Tour of Colonial
Williamsburg
Readings: To Be Assigned
TUES, APR 1—Guest Lecturer: Tom Taylor
The Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg
Tom H. Taylor, Jr., “The Restoration of Williamsburg,”
in Mccubbin, ed., Williamsburg, Virginia: A City Before the State, pp.
179-189.
THURS, APR 3---ALL
Class Projects Due
TUES, APR 8—David McCarthy
America in the Era of the Great Depression
Readings:
Excerpts from David Kennedy's Freedom From Fear
Introduction, Richard Polenberg's The Era of Franklin
D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 (Bedford Books).
THURS, APR 10—All (moved
from March 27)
Class Projects Due
TUES, APR 15---LK/Dave
William & Mary in the Era of the Great Depression
Readings:
W&M History, vol. 2:
“Controversy and Commitment: Chandler and His Legacy,”
pp. 611-635.
THURS, APR 17—Guest: Edward Chappell
Walking Tour: Chandler Court and Pollard Park
Readings:
Thaddeus W. Tate, Jr., “Town and Gown through Three
Centuries: William and Mary in the Life of Williamsburg,” in Mccubbin,
ed., Williamsburg, Virginia: A City Before the State, pp. 137-155.
Edward Chappell, “Greening the Grid: Chandler Court,
Pollard Park, and the Early Suburbanization of Williamsburg,” in Mccubbin,
ed., Williamsburg, Virginia: A City Before the State, pp. 173-177.
TUES, APR 22---All
The Chandler Era in Perspective
Readings:
“Letters Addressed to Dr. J. A. C. Chandler
for the Contemplated Celebration of His Fifteen Years Service as President
of William & Mary College.” Ed. Cornelia Adair. The William & Mary
Quarterly, 2nd Series, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct. 1934), pp. 265-288. .
“Installation Address of Dr. J.A.C. Chandler
as President of the College of William & Mary, October 19, 1921.” William
& Mary Quarterly, 2nd Series, Vol. 14, No. 4 (October, 1934),
pp. 290-294.
THURS, APR 24---Guest: Amy Green
Swing Dancing in the Great Hall!