Course Schedule !

Week Date

Unit

Topic

INTRO

Syllabus

M, 1/12
W, 1/14

Introductions

F, 1/16

Website

M, 1/19

UNIT1

W, 1/21

Reading!
Assignment

Due Today

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day, no

classes
A New World

CH1

M, 1/26

Beginnings of English America

CH2

W, 1/28

Creating Anglo-America

CH3

F, 1/30

Slavery, Freedom and the Struggle for

Empire

CH4

The American Revolution

CH5

W, 2/4

The Revolution Within

CH6

F, 2/6

Founding a Nation

CH7

M, 2/9

Securing the Republic

CH8

W, 2/11

The Market Revolution

CH9

F, 2/13

Democracy in America

CH10

The Peculiar Institution

CH11

W, 2/18

The Age of Reform

CH12

F, 2/20

A House Divided

CH13

M, 2/23

A New Birth of Freedom: the Civil War

CH14

W, 2/25

What is Freedom?

CH15

F, 1/23
3

M, 2/2

M, 2/16

UNIT 2

UNIT3

Reading
Journals

Reading
Journals

Reading
Journals

F, 2/27
8

M, 3/2

PART 1 Summary & Paper Assignment

WRITING
WORKSHOP

Bring Draft#1 to Class

W,

Bring Draft #1 to Class

F, 3/6

Bring Completed Papers to Class

PAPER #1

M, 3/9
W, 3/11

SPRING BREAK

F, 3/13
10

11

12

13

14

M, 3/16

Americas Gilded Age, 1870-1890

CH16

W, 3/18

Freedoms Boundaries, at Home and

Abroad, 1890-1900

CH17

F, 3/20

The Progressive Era, 1900-1916

CH18

M, 3/23

Safe for Democracy: The United States

and the World, 1916-1920

CH19

W, 3/25

TBA

TBA

F, 3/27

TBA

TBA

From Business Culture to Great

Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932

CH20

W, 4/1

The New Deal, 1932-1940

CH21

F, 4/3

Fighting for the Four Freedoms: world

War II, 1941-1945

CH22

M, 4/6

The United States and the Cold War,

1945-1953

CH23

W, 4/8

TBA

TBA

F, 4/10

TBA

TBA

An Affluent Society, 1953-1960

CH24

W, 4/15

The Sixties, 1960-1968

CH25

F, 4/17

The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1988 CH26

M, 3/30

M, 4/13

UNIT 4

UNIT 5

UNIT 6

Reading
Journals

Reading
Journals

15

16

M, 4/20

Globalization and Its Discontents,

1989-2000

CH27

W, 4/22

A New Century and New Crises

CH28

F, 4/24

Part 2 Summary & Paper Assignment

TBA

M, 4/27

WRITING
WORKSHOP

Reading
Journals

Bring Draft 1 to Class

W, 4/29

Bring Draft 2 to Class

F, 5/1

Bring Completed Paper to Class

PAPER #2