• ENGL-0302 College Reading Skills
• ENGL-0327 Integrated Reading and Writing

1. Create an argument through the use of historical evidence
2. Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources
3. Analyze the effects of historical, social, political, economic, cultural, and global forces on this period of United States history

1.      WEEK 1 (08/26/24 – 08/31/24)
Introduction to the course, the subject matter of HIST 1301, and the nature of history as an academic discipline. You will also read about premodern Atlantic Basin societies.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 1

Assignment:

·        Journal Entry no. 1

·        Quiz 1

2.      WEEK 2 (09/02/24 – 09/07/24)

This week we will cover the expansion of the western European empires into the Americas and Africa.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 2

Assignments:

·        Journal Entry no. 2

·        Quiz 2

3.      WEEK 3 (09/09/24 – 09/14/24)

This week we will cover the lived experiences of people across colonial North America, focusing on the lives of ordinary people across the continent.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 3

Assignments:

·        Journal Entry no. 3

·        Quiz 3

4.      WEEK 4 (09/16/24 – 09/21/24)

This week you will learn about the fractious politics and ever-growing power of the English – and after the union with Scotland, British – empire in the Atlantic Basin from the mid-seventeenth century through the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 4

Assignments

·        Journal Entry no. 4

·        Quiz 4

5.      WEEK 5 (09/23/24 – 09/28/24)

This week we will cover the tense period between 1763 and 1775, when a large minority of subjects in British North America turned toward radical political movements.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 5

Assignments:

·        Journal Entry no. 5

·        Quiz 5

6.      WEEK 6 (09/30/24 – 10/05/24)

This week we will cover the U.S. War of Independence, a complex conflict in which about one-third of the population of the thirteen British colonies south of Canada supported secession from the British Empire.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 6

Assignments:

·        Journal Entry no. 6

·        Quiz 6

7.      WEEK 7 (10/07/24 – 10/12/24)

This week we will cover the crucial decades after Independence, when the Constitution was formed, the Bill of Rights ratified and the republic faced many of its first challenges, including the quasi war with France and the War of 1812 with the British Empire.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 7

·        U.S. History chapter 8

Assignments:

·        Journal Entry no. 7

·        Quiz 7

8.      WEEK 8 (10/14/24 – 10/19/24)

This week we will discuss the spread of industrial technology to the United States from England. Industry took root in the country during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and soon the economy began to change to fit modern technology.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 9

Assignments:

·        Journal Entry no. 8

·        Quiz 8

9.      WEEK 9 (10/21/24 – 10/26/24)

From the end of the War of Independence until the 1850s, the United States spread rapidly across North America, gaining first the trans-Appalachian West, followed by the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, the annexation of the Republic of Texas and the acquisitions of the Oregon Country and the Mexican Cession.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 11

Assignments:

·        Journal entry no. 9

·        Quiz 9

10.  WEEK 10 (10/28/24 – 11/02/24)

This week we will learn about life in the antebellum (pre-Civil War) South, with a particular focus on the lives of enslaved Southerners and crucial social, cultural, political and economic importance of slavery to Southern society.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 12

Assignments:

·        Journal Entry no. 10

·        Quiz 10

11.  WEEK 11 (11/04/24 – 11/09/24)

This week we will cover some of the many reform movements of the nineteenth century. Many Americans then did what Americans have always done: seek to improve society through reform and protest. Among the most influential reform movements were the abolitionist movement, the early women’s rights movement and the temperance movement.

Readings: 

·        U.S. History chapter 13

Assignments:

·        Journal Entry no. 11

·        Quiz 11

12.  WEEK 12 (11/11/24 – 11/16/24)

This week we will cover the crucial decade of the 1850s. Among other causes for tension, this decade saw the passage of the controversial Compromise of 1850; the Kansas-Nebraska Act and subsequent rise of the Republican Party; the Bleeding Kansas battles; the fallout from the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford and the use of lethal violence by both pro-slavery and anti-slavery people against unarmed civilians.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 14

Assignments:

·        Journal Entry no. 12

·        Quiz 12

13.  WEEK 13 (11/18/24 – 11/23/24)

This week we will learn about the U.S. Civil War, the bloodiest war in the entire history of the North American continent, with at least 600,000 dead and possibly as many as 850,000 dead. In addition to the war’s causes and some of its major strategic turning points, we will spend some time learning about the “home fronts” of both the U.S. and Confederacy.

Readings:

·        U.S. History chapter 15

Assignments:

·        Journal Entry no. 13

·        Quiz 13

THANKSGIVING WEEK (11/25/24 – 11/30/24)

You will not be required to do anything this week. Take whatever time you can to be with your families, work on your research assignments and study for the final exam.

14.  WEEK 14 (12/02/24 – 12/07/24)
In this final week of the course, you will learn about the Reconstruction period (1865 – 1877), what some historians have called the great failure of American history. After the Civil War, the Southern states were slowly readmitted into the United States of America, but Southern governments were able to find ways around the new Constitutional guarantees of equality made in Amendments XIII, XIV and XV.

Readings: 

·        U.S. History chapter 16

Assignments:

·        Research Assignment (due by 11:59 p.m. on 12/02/24)

15.  WEEK 15 (12/09/24 – 12/12/24)

Your FINAL EXAM will be held on Monday and Tuesday of this week, and you have a 48-hour window during which the exam must be completed. The exam is cumulative: good luck.

Readings:

None

Assignments:

·        FINAL EXAM (open from 12:00 a.m. on 12/09/24 until 11:59 p.m. on 12/10/24).

• A weather event or other disaster prompts a change in course due dates
• You have an Accommodations Memorandum that specifies you need changes to due dates
• You experience a documented and authenticated medical or family crisis.

1. First Offense: For your first plagiarism offense, you will receive a grade of 0% on the assignment. You will be required to come to my office and discuss plagiarism with me, something I am sure we both want to avoid.
2. Second Offense: A second plagiarism offense will result in yet another grade of 0% for the plagiarized assignment, and the student’s name and all documented offenses will be forwarded to the proper LSCPA officials.
3. Third or Further Offense(s): The student will receive grades of 0% for all offensive assignment and, in severe cases such as plagiarism on the final exam or research assignment, might even fail the course entirely.