HIS 231: UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1877
North Island College, Fall 2007
Meeting Times: Mon., Wed. 1:00 p.m.-2:20 pm
Meeting Place: DIS 218
Instructor: Dan Hinman-Smith
Office: Village G6
Office Hours: Mon. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Thurs. 2:00-3:30 p.m. (or by appointment)
Office Phone: 334-5000, Extension 4024
Home Phone: 703-0673 (Do not hesitate to call with course-related questions)
Web-Site: http://www.misterdann.com/
E-Mail: dhinman@telus.net
CLASS SCHEDULE
WEEK1
Wednesday, September 5
a) Introduction
b) Video: "Pocahontas Revealed"
WEEK 2
Monday, September 10
a) Discussion: Kennewick Man
b)
Discussion: "Indians In The Land" and "
Asians"
c) Before The Europeans
Reading Assignment:
Browse extensively in
Richard Rodriguez, "Asians," Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father (New York: Viking, 1992): 158-174.
Wednesday, September 12
a) Discussion: The Devil In The Shape Of A Woman -- Witches And Historians
a) Video: "Secrets Of The Dead: The Witches' Curse"
Reading Assignment:
Browse extensively in Devil In The Shape Of A Shape Of A Woman Discussion Topic.
WEEK 3
Monday, September 17
a) Discussion: Jamestown
a) Citie Upon The Hill And The Tobacco Colony: Comparing Massachusetts And Virginia
Reading Assignment:
Browse extensively in
Wednesday, September 19
a) A Colonial Mosaic
b) Video: "Unearthing The Slave Trade"
WEEK 4
Monday, September 24
a) The Chesapeake And Massachusetts
Wednesday, September 26
a) Discussion: 1776 And All That
b) Video: "Liberty!: The Reluctant Revolutionaries"
Reading Assignment:
Browse extensively in
WEEK 5
Monday, October 1
a) Monument Project: Mini-Presentations and Discussion
For an electronic version of the assignment form, click HERE.
For some useful links to help you with this assignment, click HERE.
Wednesday, October 3
a)
WEEK 6
Monday, October 8
No Class: Thanksgiving
Wednesday, October 10
a) A More Perfect Union?: The U.S. Constitution
b) Video: "North Vs. South In The Founding Of The U.S."
WEEK 7
Monday, October 15
a) U.S. Constitution
b) Bill of Rights Analysis
c) West Video Clips
***FIRST HALF PORTFOLIO DUE***
Wednesday, October 17
a) World Turned Upside Down?: The American Revolution As A Social Movement
WEEK 8
Monday, October 22
a) Discussion: American Political Prints, 1766-1876
b) DeTocqueville's America
Reading Assignment:
Browse extensively in
James R. Chiles, "Congress Couldn't Have Been This Bad, Or Could It?,"
Wednesday, October 24
a) Video: "Roots Of Resistance"
b) Discussion: Lewis And Clark
Reading Assignment:
Browse extensively in
WEEK 9
Monday, October 29
a) "When The Eagle Screamed"" An Overview Of Westward Expansion, 1803-1850
Wednesday, October 31
a) Discussion: WPA Ex-Slave Interview Project
b) Discussion: Slave Reparations
Reading Assignment:
Browse extensively in
Mike Mattison,
WEEK 10
Monday, November 5
a) Discussion: "Secret Life Of A Developing Country"
b) "Be Ye Therefore Perfect Even As Your Father In Heaven Is Perfect": The Reforming Impulse
Reading Assignment:
Jack Larkin
Wednesday, November 7
a) Video: "John Brown's Body"
WEEK 11
Monday, November 12
No Class: Remembrance Day
Wednesday, November 14
a) Discussion: Coming Of The Civil War
b) The Impending Crisis: The Coming Of The Civil War, 1848-1861
Reading Assignment:
Browse extensively in
WEEK 12
Monday, November 19
a) Discussion: Civil War
b) Video: "The Civil War"
Reading Assignment:
Browse extensively in
Wednesday, November 21
a) Video: "Reconstruction -- The Second Civil War"
WEEK 13
Monday, November 26
a) "A House Divided": The Civil War, 1861-1865
b) Whose Reconstruction?
Wednesday, November 28
a) Discussion: Confederates In The Attic
b) Discussion: Harper's Reconstruction
Reading Assignment:
Browse extensively in
WEEK 14
Monday, December 3
a) "The Mystic Chords Of Memory": The American Revolution, The Civil War Era And The American Historical Imagination
Wednesday, December 5
a) Final Exam Review
**SECOND HALF PORTFOLIO DUE
WEEK 15: FINAL EXAM: Date and Time TBA.
BOOKS
David Goldfield et al., American Journey: A History of the United States
Tony Horwitz, Confederates In The Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (New York: Vintage, 1998).
EVALUATION
Letter of Introduction 1%
First Half Portfolio 30%
Second Half Portfolio 30%
Class Participation 19%
Final Exam 20%
a) Letter of Introduction (1%)
Who are you? Where are you from? What are your interests? Why are you taking this course? Do you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions as we start the course? Write two or three informal paragraphs for the second class of the semester to introduce yourself to me.
b) First Half Portfolio (30%)
c) Second Half Portfolio (30 %)
d) Final Exam (20%)
e) Class Participation (19%)