AMH 3552, Spring 2010

Lecture: M & W: 4th period

Meets in Fine Arts B 105

Discussion sections: Friday, various times and rooms

 

 

 

Professor: Elizabeth Dale

Office hours: M: 9-10AM; W: 9-10AM & 2-3PM; and by appointment

Office: Keene Flint 224

Phone: 352.273.3387

Email: edale@ufl.edu

 

TAs:  Joel Black & Michael Schoeppner

 

 

 

 

Assigned books (at UF bookstore, you should also be able to get them online):

Sparrow, Bartholomew H. The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire. University Press of Kansas, 2006. ISBN 978-0700614820.

Ngai, Mae. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0691124292

Polenberg, Richard. Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court and Free Speech. Cornell University Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0801486180

Lewis, Anthony. Gideon's Trumpet. Vintage 1989. ISBN 978-0679723127

 

Assignments:

 

One 5-7 page papers, 25% of grade

 One book analysis, 5-7 pages, worth 25% of grade

 One final exam, 5-7 pages, worth 25% of grade

Participation in discussion section, worth 25% of grade

 

 

Please note that assignments are due on the day due, at the start of class. They may be turned in before that, of course. A paper turned in after class starts on the day due will be lowered one half grade. A paper turned in the day after it is due will be lowered one full grade. A paper turned in two days late will be lowered two full grades, and so on.

 

Familiarize yourself with the University policies on plagiarism, links to this policy are available on my webpage (see the links directly below the link to this syllabus). Anyone caught plagiarizing will fail the paper and will be subject to university sanctions.

 

 

 

Schedule of Assignments:

 

Week 1:

W, Jan. 6: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

F, Jan. 8: NO DISCUSSION SECTION

 

Week 2:

M, Jan. 11: Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)

W: Jan. 13:  United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)

F, Jan. 15 (discussion): Hurtado v. California (1884)

 

Week 3:

M, Jan. 18: MLK Holiday, NO CLASS

W, Jan. 20: The Insular Cases (link to general website on them) 

Read DeLima, Downes and Dorr (you should also read the summaries of the other cases).

F: Jan 22: Sparrow, The Insular Cases

 

Week 4:

M, Jan. 25: Lochner v. New York (1905)

W, Jan. 27: Muller v. Oregon (1908)

***First assignment handed out***

F, Jan. 29: Adair v. United States (1908); Coppage v. Kansas (1915)

 

Week 5:

M, Feb. 1: Abrams v. United States (1919); Schenck v. United States (1919)

W, Feb. 3: Polenberg, Fighting Faiths

F, Feb. 5: Whitney v. California (1925)

 

Week 6:

M, Feb. 8: Palko v. Connecticut (1937)

***First assignment due, in class at the start of class***

W, Feb. 10: West Coast Hotel v. Parish (1937)

F, Feb. 12: US v. Carolene Products (1938)

 

Week 7:

M, Feb. 15:  Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)

W, Feb. 17: Ngai, Impossible Subjects

***Book assignment handed out***

F, Feb. 19: Hirabayashi v. US (1943)

 

Week 8:

M, Feb. 22: Korematsu v. US (1944);

W, Feb. 24: West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)

F, Feb. 26: Everson v. Board of Education (1947)

 

M, March 1: United States v. Miller (1939)

***Book assignment due, in class at the start of class***

 W, March 3: Adamson v. California (1947)

 F, March 5: Dennis v. United States (1948)

 

Week 9: SPRING BREAK

 

Week 10:

M, March 15: McLaurin v. Board of Regents (1950)

W, March 17:  Sweatt v. Painter (1950)

F, March 19: Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

 

Week 11:

M, March 22: Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

W, March 24: Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

F, March 26: Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet

 

Week 12:

M, March 29: Engel v. Vitale (1962)

W, March 31: Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)

F, April 2: Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969)

 

Week 13:

M, April 5: Griswold v. Connecticut (1965); 

W, April 7: Loving v. Virginia (1967)

***final exam question handed out***

F, April 9: Brandenberg v. Ohio (1969)

 

Week 14:

M, April 12: Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)

W, April 14: Roe v. Wade (1973)

F, April 16: Board of Education v. Pico (1982)

 

Week 15:

M, April 19: Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)

W, April 21: D.C. v. Heller (2008) (last class)

 

Week 16:

Finals due April 27 at noon in my office (224 Keene Flint)