EUE Proposal

FY2018 Project ID# 19-01

Project Title Manifest Destiny, The History and Practice of an Idea: Editing George Lippard’s Legends of Mexico (1847)

Project Director ID Number Telephone Email Jason Stacy 800010474 3966 jstacy@siue.edu

Department Campus Box School College Historical Studies 1454 CAS

Course or Program HIST 425

Project Co-Director ID Department Email

Student Impact: 15

Multiple Submission Priority: 1

Summary: Since the Department of Historical Studies added a lab component to our undergraduate survey courses in 2012, we have sought to incorporate training in applied historical methods into our curriculum. Recently, we added a specialization in applied historical methods for students who seek training in public history, historical archiving and history pedagogy. “Manifest Destiny: The History and Practice of an Idea” will further these reforms by transforming an upper-division, lecture-style history class into a model of applied historical practice. “History of American Ideas (HIST 425)” is a traditional survey of intellectual trends in the United States that values recall over application. In fall 2018, I will pilot a section of “History of American Ideas” that focuses on a single historical idea and trains students in historical editing rather than factual memorization. This piloted section of HIST 425 will be dedicated to the idea of Manifest Destiny and culminate in a class-edited edition of George Lippard’s Legends of Mexico (1847), published at the height of the Mexican-American War (1846-1847), and a hallmark of the ideology of Manifest Destiny. During the course, students will collaboratively research and write a historical introduction and

annotate the text to situate the book within its historical context. In this regard, the historiography that we read as a class, the discussions we have about the history of Manifest Destiny, and the analyses we undertake of this primary source, will serve to revive Lippard’s book from historical oblivion and make it accessible to the general reader as an example of Manifest Destiny in the 19th century. Hastings College Press, has agreed to publish the class’s edition of Lippard’s book in spring 2019. I have included a letter of agreement from Professor Patricia Oman of Hastings College with details of this collaboration. This EUE grant will fund the purchase of a copy of the book for each student in the class. Should this pilot prove successful, I will use the experience to formally reconfigure “History of American Ideas” into a course dedicated to training students in historical documentary editing and add it to our electives in our “Applied Historical Methods” specialization. In this regard, this pilot has the potential to impact all history majors by providing a foundation upon which to build training in applied historical skills into all of our upper-division electives. Project Budget Salary Wages Travel Equip. Comm CServ Auto Tele Awards Total

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AnExcellenceinUndergraduateProposal:

ManifestDestiny,TheHistoryandPracticeofanIdea:EditingGeorgeLippard’sLegendsofMexico(1847)

JasonStacy

DepartmentofHistoricalStudies

Summary:SincetheDepartmentofHistoricalStudiesaddedalabcomponenttoourundergraduatesurveycoursesin2012,wehavesoughttoincorporatetraininginappliedhistoricalmethodsintoourcurriculum.Recently,weaddedaspecializationinappliedhistoricalmethodsforstudentswhoseektraininginpublichistory,historicalarchivingandhistorypedagogy.“ManifestDestiny:TheHistoryandPracticeofanIdea”willfurtherthesereformsbytransforminganupper-division,lecture-stylehistoryclassintoamodelofappliedhistoricalpractice.“HistoryofAmericanIdeas(HIST425)”isatraditionalsurveyofintellectualtrendsintheUnitedStatesthatvaluesrecalloverapplication.Infall2018,Iwillpilotasectionof“HistoryofAmericanIdeas”thatfocusesonasinglehistoricalideaandtrainsstudentsinhistoricaleditingratherthanfactualmemorization.ThispilotedsectionofHIST425willbededicatedtotheideaofManifestDestinyandculminateinaclass-editededitionofGeorgeLippard’sLegendsofMexico(1847),publishedattheheightoftheMexican-AmericanWar(1846-1847),andahallmarkoftheideologyofManifestDestiny.Duringthecourse,studentswillcollaborativelyresearchandwriteahistoricalintroductionandannotatethetexttosituatethebookwithinitshistoricalcontext.Inthisregard,thehistoriographythatwereadasaclass,thediscussionswehaveaboutthehistoryofManifestDestiny,andtheanalysesweundertakeofthisprimarysource,willservetoreviveLippard’sbookfromhistoricaloblivionandmakeitaccessibletothegeneralreaderasanexampleofManifestDestinyinthe19thcentury.HastingsCollegePress,1hasagreedtopublishtheclass’seditionofLippard’sbookinspring2019.IhaveincludedaletterofagreementfromProfessorPatriciaOmanofHastingsCollegewithdetailsofthiscollaboration.ThisEUEgrantwillfundthepurchaseofacopyofthebookforeachstudentintheclass.Shouldthispilotprovesuccessful,Iwillusetheexperiencetoformallyreconfigure“HistoryofAmericanIdeas”intoacoursededicatedtotrainingstudentsinhistoricaldocumentaryeditingandaddittoourelectivesinour“AppliedHistoricalMethods”specialization.Inthisregard,thispilothasthepotentialtoimpactallhistorymajorsbyprovidingafoundationuponwhichtobuildtraininginappliedhistoricalskillsintoallofourupper-divisionelectives.1https://sites.google.com/hastings.edu/hastings-college-press/available-titles/forgotten-texts

Narrative:Fortheconvenienceofthereviewcommittee,IhavestructuredthisnarrativeaccordingtotheapplicablecategoriesintheEUEevaluationrubric.Innovation:Itmayatfirstseemsurprisingtoclaimthatproducingaprinteditionof170-year-oldbookpresentsaninnovativeproject.However,afterworkingindigitaleditingwithstudentsforthelasttwoyears,IthinkitrepresentsapedagogicalfrontierforhistorystudentsatSIUeintermsofcollaboration,bothwitheachother,andwithstudentsatHastingsCollege.Sincespring2016,Ihavetrainedundergraduatestudentsintheskillsofdigitaldocumentaryediting,primarilythroughourURCAprogramandmyAntebellumUSHistorycourse(HIST326).Inthesecases,Itrainedstudentsintranscription,annotation,andencodingforhtmlpublication.Specifically,weeditedWhitman’sjournalismfromthe1840sand1850sforpublicationontheWaltWhitmanDigitalArchive(whitmanarchive.org).WhileIbelievethisworkprovedtobevaluableforstudents,Ifeltthatitlacked,first,acollaborativeapproachthatbindsagroupofstudentsforcommonpurposeandpedagogicalbenefitand,second,acommongoalthatrequiresthiscollaborativeapproach.“ManifestDestiny,TheHistoryandPracticeofanIdea”willallowmetotakemyexperiencewithteachinghistoricaleditinganduseittoturna400-levelclassintoaneditorialworkshopforstudents.Thiscourse,then,willtransformthedigitaleditingunitIhaveundertakenwithstudentsfromaseriesofindividualstudent-producededitions(typicallyoneeditorialperstudentduringthelastthirdofasemester)intoaclass-producededitionofasinglebook,whicheachstudentwillreceiveinprint.Additionally,thisprojectallowsustoworkcollaborativewithDr.PatriciaOman’sstudentsatHastingsCollege,whowillproducethephysicalbookaspartofhercourse“BookProduction”(PUB234).Inthisregard,SIUestudentswillnotonlyworkcollaborativelywitheachothertoeditasinglehallmarkof“ManifestDestiny”fromthe19thcentury,butalsoworkcollaborativelywithstudentpublishersatHastingsCollegeasthebookgoesintoproduction.PleaseseePatriciaOman’sattachedletterfordetails.ImpactonUndergraduateEducation:Myplanistoscalethisprojectintoapermanenthistoricaleditingcourseforourhistorymajors.Thiscoursewillalsoserveasanupper-divisionelectiveforournewAppliedHistoricalElectivesspecializationand,asa400-levelcourse,beavailabletoourgraduatestudentswhoareinterestedineditingandbookpublishing.AlignmentwithEUEEmphasis:ThepresentEUEcallforproposalsemphasizesprojectsthatoffer“HighImpactCommunityEngagement.”Thiscoursewillbeimpactfulinanumberofways,bothlocalandnational.First,theprojectwilltrainhistorystudentsinasetofskillsinhistoricaleditingthatwilltranslateintoanynumberofoccupationalskills.Butmostimportantly,studentswillproduceaneditionthatwillbeavailableforcommunityuse.Thebookwillbeavailableforpurchasethroughallonlineretailers,andHastingsCollegePressprovidesabacklist

forresearchlibrariesaroundtheworld.Also,sincestudentswillworkcollaborativelywithstudentsin“BookProduction”atHastingsCollegePress,thispilotpromisestoestablishfuturecollaborativepublicationswithHastingsCollege.PleaseseePatriciaOman’sattachedletterinvitingfuturecollaborationshouldthispilotprovesuccessful.QualificationsoftheProjectDirector:Iamanexperiencededitorofhistoricaldocuments.Since2012,IhaveservedasacontributingeditortotheWaltWhitmanArchive,whereIworkedonWhitman’sjournalismaspartofNationalEndowmentfortheHumanitiesgrant.MyprinteditionsincludeWaltWhitman’s1860editionofLeavesofGrass(UniversityofIowaPress,2009)andWaltWhitman’sSelectedJournalism(UniversityofIowaPress,2015).In2015,Ico-authoredatextbookthatincludedover250documentsfromthe16thcenturytothepresent,whichrequiredextensiveresearchandediting(DocumentingUnitedStatesHistory,BedfordSt.Martin).Between2011and2017Ico-editedthethirdvolumeofWaltWhitman’sCompleteJournalism,whichiscurrentlyinproduction(PeterLang,2018).IhaveworkedwiththirteenURCAandgraduateresearchassistantsandtaughttwentystudentstotranscribe,annotateandencodeWhitman’sjournalisminHIST326fortheWaltWhitmanArchive.ValidityofEvaluationPlan:Theresultsofthisproject’sgoalswillmanifestthemselvesintheproductionofthebookitself.IfPatriciaOmanandIbelievethatthemanuscripteditionofLegendsofMexicoisuptothestandardsofHastingsCollegePress’sotherpublications,wewillmoveforwardwithpublicationandpursuefuturecoursecollaborationsbetweenSIUeandHastingsCollegePress.BudgetandBudgetJustification:HastingsCollegePresswillcovertheproductionandprintingcostsofthetitle.SIUewillcoverthecostofstudentcopies:30x$20=$600.Thesefundswillpurchaseacopyforeverystudentintheclass,andextrafordistributiontotheDepartmentofHistoricalStudies,theCollegeofArtsandScience,localmediaoutlets,etc.SeeattachedletterfromPatriciaOman,editorofHastingsCollegePress,attachedtothisproposal.

Jason Stacy Associate Professor, U.S. History, Social Science Education

Department of Historical Studies, Box 1454 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 62026

Peck Hall 1219 jstacy@siue.edu

Education Ph.D., History, Loyola University Chicago, May 2006 M.L.A., University of Chicago, 2001 M.A., History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1994 B.S., History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1992 Courses Taught American Cultural History, American Intellectual History (Colonial to Present), American Masculinity, History of England, Historical Methods, Social Science Pedagogy, U.S. History (Colonial to Present), Western Philosophy, World History Current Projects: Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town, Urbana:

University of Illinois Press, under contract. The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism vol. III, ed., with Douglas Noverr, Zachary

Turpin, eds. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, in production. Authored and Edited Books: Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History, Vols. I and II, ed. with James

Sabathne, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Documenting United States History: Themes Concepts and Skills, with Stephen Heller, Boston:

Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2015. Walt Whitman’s Selected Journalism, ed. with Douglas Noverr. Iowa Whitman Series, Iowa

City: University of Iowa Press, 2015. Leaves of Grass 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition, ed. Iowa Whitman Series. Iowa

City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. Walt Whitman’s Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman’s Journalism and the First

Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008. Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters: “Walt Whitman: Journalist.” In Joanna Levine, Edward Whitley, eds., Walt Whitman in Context.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018. "Walt Whitman's Journalism." Walt Whitman Quarterly, Review 34 (2017), 358-361. “Secondhand Arguments: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the American Antismoking

Campaign, 1900-2000,” with Stephen Hansen. Studies in American Culture, 37(1), 2014.

“Whitman, Lincoln, and a Forgotten Form of Freedom, in Stephen Hansen, Caroline Pryor (ed.), Teaching Lincoln, New York: Peter Lang, 2014.

“Morbid Inferences: Whitman, Wikipedia, and the Debate over the Poet’s Sexuality.” Polymath: An interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal, 3(4), 2013.

“Building Reading, Writing and Analysis in the AP US History Classroom, with Stephen Heller. Social Education 77(5), 2013.

“Becoming Illuminated: New York City’s Public School Society and Its Religious Discontents, 1805-1840,” American Education History Journal, forthcoming 2010.

“Washington’s Tears: Sentimental Anecdote and Walt Whitman’s Battle of Long Island,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, forthcoming 2010.

“An Appeal to the Unappealing: Some Thoughts on Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman’s Troubling Anti-Slavery Rhetoric,” Learning for Democracy: An International Journal of Thought and Practice, vol 3, no.2 (2009), 1-19.

“The Guide on the Stage: In Defense of Good Lecturing in the History Classroom.” Social Education. National Council for the Social Studies , October 2009, 274-277.

“Showing Their Condition: Walt Whitman and Ethical Aesthetics in the ‘Sun-Down Papers.’” The Mickle Street Review: an Electronic Journal of Whitman and American Studies. Camden, NJ: Rutgers Univ., 19/20 (2008).

“Dialectic for U.S. History (with apologies to Professor Hegel)” Journal of the Illinois Council for the Social Sciences, 67 (Fall 2007), 11-18.

“Strangers Across the Hall: Comparing the DBQ and Synthesis Questions," AP English Language and Composition Special Focus: Using Sources, Steven Heller, ed., Princeton, New Jersey: The College Board, 2007, 61-68.

“‘I do not think we can keep universities open with bayonets’: The May 1970 Riots at Southern Illinois University,” Journal of Illinois History, Winter 2006, 9(4): 283-306.

“Containing Multitudes: Whitman, the Working Class, and the Music of Moderate Reform,” Popular Culture Review (13:2) 2002, 137-54. (2002).

Digital Scholarship Walt Whitman. New York Aurora. The Walt Whitman Archive, Gen. ed. Ed Folsom and

Kenneth M. Price, 2016. Walt Whitman. “Sun Down Papers—From the Desk of a Schoolmaster,” The Walt

Whitman Archive, Gen. ed. Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, 2016. Walt Whitman. "Letters from a Traveling Bachelor,” The Walt Whitman Archive, Gen. ed.

Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, 2015. Walt Whitman. "Letters from Paumanok." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Ed

Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, 2014. Walt Whitman. "New York Dissected." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Ed Folsom

and Kenneth M. Price, 2014. Awards and Honors

William and Margaret Going Endowed Professorship Award, SIUe, (2017) Teaching Excellence Award, SIUe, (May 2011). Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigators Award, SIUe, (May 2010). History Department Nominee for Dissertation of the Year, Loyola University, Loyola University

Chicago. (2006).

January 2, 2018

Re: Hastings College Press Edition of George Lippard’s Legends of Mexico

Dear Dr. Stacy,

I write to confirm the details of the collaborative project we recently developed between SIUe and Hastings

College: an annotated edition of George Lippard’s Legends of Mexico (originally published by T.B. Peterson in

1847).

This project will be a wonderful opportunity for students at both our institutions to participate in scholarly

publishing. As we discussed, your students in HIST 425 (Fall 2018) will edit the text, contributing explanatory

and interpretive notes, and write an original introduction. My Publishing students at Hastings College will design,

lay out, proofread, and print the book. This is an ideal collaboration between our respective programs, and I hope

this is just the first among many projects.

Following is the project timeline:

• January 2018 – Students in Dr. Oman’s PUB 234 Book Production class at Hastings College will create a clean typescript (i.e., Word file) for the book and send to Dr. Stacy.

• Fall 2018 – Students in Dr. Stacy’s HIST 425 class at SIUe will proofread, edit, and annotate the text in the provided typescript and send the complete Word file back to HC Press. Students will also send a

separate Word file with a complete introduction (4,000-6,000 words).

• January 2019 – Students in Dr. Oman’s PUB 234 Book Production class will copy edit the introduction and notes, and typeset, lay out, and proofread the book, sending page proofs to Dr. Stacy by the end of

January for review.

• Spring 2019 – Dr. Stacy and his students will have one month to review the proofs and notify HC press of any corrections/revisions.

• Spring 2019 – Student interns for HC Press will make corrections, proofread the text, finalize the lay out, and print/bind the first print run (100 copies).

• Spring 2019 – HC Press will send 30 copies to Dr. Stacy to distribute to the students who worked on the project.

• Summer 2019 – HC Press will release the title for sale, priced at $19.99.

Project Costs: HC Press will cover the production and printing costs of the title. We ask that SIUe cover the cost

of student copies: 30 x $20 = $600.

Best Regards,

Patricia Oman, PhD

Assistant Professor of English

Director of Hastings College Press

Department of Languages and Literatures

Department of Historical Studies

January 15, 2018

TO: EUE Committee

FROM: Carole Collier Frick, Chair, Historical Studies

This is an enthusiastic support statement for Jason Stacy’s collaborative EUE grant. I have reviewed his proposal for a project, which will involve upper-division history majors in HIST 425 and upper-division students from Hastings College, who are studying book publishing. I believe that these type of joint projects with students from two different universities and disciplines are part of the wave of the future for the Humanities and completely support Dr. Stacy’s efforts. Working on a mid-nineteenth-century text, his students will edit the work, supplying a critical apparatus and writing the introduction. The Hastings students will design, proofread and do the layout and printing of the book. What will result is a new edition of George Lippard’s Legends of Mexico, originally published in 1847.

Dr. Stacy is to be congratulated for providing such a wonderful experience for his students, and working with Dr. Patricia Oman from Hastings, this will allow SIUe students an amazing opportunity in the production of a real book, which will then be offered for sale to the public. I heartily back this EUE grant proposal.

Sincerely,

Carole Collier Frick Professor of History and Chair, Historical Studies COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES SIUe

Campus Box 1608 Tel: 5047 Fax: 5050

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, OFFICE OF THE DEAN

To: Excellence in Undergraduate Education

From: Greg Budzban, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Subject: Dean’s Memo of Support Date: 16 January, 2018 The College of Arts and Sciences supports the application of Dr. Stacy for an EUE grant to cover the

purchase of a specially printed edited version of Legends of Mexico (Lippard 1847), that will be

produced by students in a pilot section of HIST 425. This historic work will be used to give students

the opportunity to develop and apply editing skills, with the goal of producing an edited copy of

publishable quality. The project supports the focus of SIUE and the College of Arts and Sciences on

expanding opportunities for experiential learning.