Fall 2009
Topic and Term Paper
Outline (2 copies, 2 pages, typed)
Outline Due: Friday,
November
13th
Term Paper Due
(tentative date): December 9th
Some Suggested Topics:
2. The Classical
Tradition in the Letters of John
and Abigail
Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson and the Classics
4. Thomas Jefferson and Classical Education
5. The Classical
Tradition in the Retirement Correspondence of
Jefferson and Adams
8. James Madison, Ancient History and the Federalist Papers
9. Benjamin Franklin: Was He Pro or Con the Classics?
10. Classical Themes in Early American Drama
11. Classical Motifs in the Architecture of Washington, D.C.
12. Horatio Greenough--America's First Neo-Classical Sculptor
13. Benjamin
West or John
Trumbull and the Neo-Classical
Tradition
14. Peter Harrison of Newport--A Classical Architect?
15. The Classical (Federal) Architecture of Salem, (MA)
16. The Classical Architecture of Sturbridge Village (MA)
17. George Wythe: Early American Classical Lawyer
18. Classical Rhetoric
in 18th Century America
a. Patrick
Henry
b. Dr.
Joseph Warren
19. Classical architecture in your local community:
a. Boston
b. Philadelphia
c. Charleston, S.C.: Its
History and Buildings
+ Drayton
Hall
d. Williamsburg - Historic
Buildings
Also: Wren
Bldg - College of William & Mary
e. Old Wethersfield, Connecticut
f. Portsmouth, N.H.
g. Grafton, MA
h. Virginia:
Stratford Hall
20. Thomas Jefferson's
Classical Academical Village (The
University Virginia)
a. The
Lawn
b. The
Rotunda
21. The President's (Classical) House
22. Dr. Benjamin Rush - A Nemesis to the Classical Tradition?
23. George Mason:
a. Classicist
and Author of Political Freedom
b. His Classical
Home - Gunston Hall
24. Thomas Jefferson's
Domestic Classical Architecture:
a. Monticello
b. Poplar
Forest
25. Others - as per discussion with course instructor