Part I: COLONIAL ERA

 

Week 0: (August 29)

Course Introduction

 

Week 1: (August 31 and September 7--No Class, September 5, Labor Day)

Brave New World: Pre- and Post-

Contact America, Europe and World 

 

Week 2: (September 12 and 14) 

Beyond Pocahontas: Settlement and Interaction in Jamestown and the Chesapeake

 

Week 3: (September 19 and 21)

A City upon a Hill: Settlement and Interaction

in New England

 

Week 4: (September 26 and 28)

So Enormous, So Dreadful: The Slave and Trade and the Origins of Slavery

 

PART II: REVOLUTION AND

EARLY REPUBLIC

 

Week 5: (October 3 and 5)

Self-Evident Truths: The Revolution

 

Week 6: (October 10 and 12)

We the People: The Constitution

 

Week 7: (October 17 and 19)

Era of the Common (White) Man: Expanding

Democracy

 

Week 8: (October 24 and 26):

Iron Horses: Commercial, Transportation,

and Industrial Revolutions

 

Week 9: (October 31 [On Zoom] and November 2):

A More Perfect Union: Age of Reform

 

PART III: ANTEBELLUM

AND CIVIL WAR PERIODS

 

Week 10: (November 7 and November 9):

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery and

the South

 

Week 11: (November 14 and 16):

Manifest Destiny: Westward Expansion

 

Week 12:(November 21 and 23 [On Zoom]):

A House Divided: Sectional Conflict and

the Road to Civil War

 

Week 13: (November 28 and 30):

To Purge this Land with Blood: The Civil  War

 

Weeks 14: (December 5 and 7):

A New Birth of Freedom: Reconstruction