Day students: Reading from week of Nov. 15-17

We will be finishing up with the Revolution today and moving on to topic 8 on your syllabus, "Competing Conspiracy Theories in the Early American Republic." The Illuminati are finally here! The reading is as follows

• Your choice: Marshall Smelser, "The Federalist Period as an Age of Passion" (web) OR John R. Howe, Jr., "Republican Thought and the Political Violence of the 1790"
• Pasley, Articles from Knight, ed., Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia: "Alien and Sedition Acts," "Jedidiah Morse," "Illuminati," "Meriwether Lewis" (web)
• Davis, ed., Fear of Conspiracy (reserve), pp. 35-65
• Bullock, Revolutionary Brotherhood, chaps. 1-5
• Selected documents (web)