History 110 Syllabus - Fall 2013

M/W, 3-4:20 Dr. Gayle Olson-Raymer

Founders Hall 165, Phone: 826-4788

Office Hours : Mondays and Wednesdays , 12:30-2:45 pm and by appointment

go1@ humboldt.edu Revised November 12, 2013 (See below "Assessments" - changes are in red)

The course syllabus - available online at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/syllabus2013.html - is divided into three parts:

Course Description which describes the course

which describes the course Course Requirements which explains everything required for passing this class

which explains everything required for passing this class Course Outline which provides a day-to-day description of each class discussion topic, the required reading for each class, a link to the discussion guides for each class, and extra credit possibilities that are linked to the topic of each class.

Please consult this course syllabus online for all questions regarding course requirements and assignment due dates - as well as for any changes in the syllabus and/or assignments. For those of you who wish to have an extended discussion about the syllabus and the course requirements, you may attend an extra credit evening meeting on Tuesday, August 27th from 6-7 pm in Founders Hall 163. (See "Extra Credit" below for details.) Please note, even though the discussion guides are included for each class meeting, they are not the equivalent of the lecture notes. In most cases, the guides will not make sense without attending class. In other words, you must attend class!!!

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Course Description, Major Skills, and Learning Outcomes

This course, which meets the institutions requirements in U.S. history established by the California Legislature (CSU Executive Order 405 and Title 5: 40404), focuses on the "significant events covering a minimum time span of approximately 100 years occurring in the entire area now included in the United States of America, including the relationships of regions within that area and with external regions and powers as appropriate to the understanding of those events within the United States during the period under study and the role of major ethnic and social groups in such events and the contexts in which the events have occurred." It also includes a discussion of "events within a framework which illustrates the continuity of the American experience and its derivation from other cultures including consideration of three or more of the following: politics, economics, social movements, and geography."

Additionally, this course meets the four major skills that the History Department believes historians need and that history majors should develop as they progress through the major: writing, critical thinking, historiography and methodology, and oral presentation.

Writing. Each assignment requires the use of writing skills, especially the two take-home, essay unit exams and the two exams on the two books required to be read this semester.

Each assignment requires the use of writing skills, especially the two take-home, essay unit exams and the two exams on the two books required to be read this semester. Critical thinking . You will be asked to use critical thinking when completing every course requirement, as well as during the discussions that take place during every class period. A particularly important critical thinking component in this course requires you to compare and contrast the primary documents you will read in Zinn and Arnove's Voices of a People's History with the secondary information from our course textbook, Foner's Give Me Liberty.

. You will be asked to use critical thinking when completing every course requirement, as well as during the discussions that take place during every class period. A particularly important critical thinking component in this course requires you to compare and contrast the primary documents you will read in Zinn and Arnove's Voices of a People's History with the secondary information from our course textbook, Foner's Give Me Liberty. Historiography and methodology . You will gain a better understanding of what historians actually do by learning the theories, viewpoints, and various perspectives of historians. Throughout the course, you will learn how historians agree and disagree about causes and consequences of the historical topics under study.

. You will gain a better understanding of what historians actually do by learning the theories, viewpoints, and various perspectives of historians. Throughout the course, you will learn how historians agree and disagree about causes and consequences of the historical topics under study. Oral presentation. You will be required to give some kind of oral presentation for each of your two written unit exams.

Upon completing this class students will:

Be able to apply the academic language, historical principles and methodologies, and value systems and ethics employed in social science inquiry to specific events in American history Be able to explain and critically analyze human social, economic, and political issues from the a historical perspectives by examining them in contemporary as well as historical settings and in a variety of cultural contexts. Be able to illustrate how human social, political and economic institutions and behavior are inextricably interwoven.

Teaching Assistant s. This semester we are fortunate to have Ted Higbee, Griffin Block, and Madeline Primack as our teaching assistants. All three are history majors who plan to go into teaching. They will conduct the extra credit seminars (discussed below) and will also be available to help you better understand both the course content and requirements throughout the semester. To arrange to meet with them or communicate with them via email, you can reach Ted at trh58@humboldt.edu, Griffin at gab226@humboldt.edu, and Madeline at mrp59@humboldt.edu

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Course Requirements

For each class meeting, you will have various reading, viewing, and listening assignments. Please complete all assignments prior to coming to class. Your preparation will enable us to have more fulfilling and intellectual conversations in the time that we have together. The following is required:

Books: Each of you will be required to read three books. A copy of each of the required books is available in the Library at the Reserve Desk.

Each of you will be required to read three books. Give Me Liberty, Volume I by Eric Foner. You can purchase any edition, but the third edition is preferable. On the course outline below, you will note that you are only required to read selected chapters from this book; all other chapters will be recommended reading.

Volume I by Eric Foner. You can purchase any edition, but the third edition is preferable. On the course outline below, you will note that you are only required to read selected chapters from this book; all other chapters will be recommended reading.

Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove (NY:Seven Stories Press, 2004). Chapters 1-10. Please note that a sound recording of these chapters is available on a chapter-by-chapter basis in the Library on Reserve. (A July 4, 2008 reading of several entries in Voices of a People's History can be seen at http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/4/july_4th_special_readings_from_howard .) On the course outline below, you will note that you are only required to read selected chapters from this book; all other chapters will be recommended reading.

by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove (NY:Seven Stories Press, 2004). Chapters 1-10. (A July 4, 2008 reading of several entries in Voices of a People's History can be seen at .) On the course outline below, you will note that you are only required to read selected chapters from this book; all other chapters will be recommended reading.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. The Norton version is preferred but not mandatory. (The entire book is available online at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/Jacobs/hj-site-index.htm and if you have a Kindle, the book is available free of charge.)

Internet Readings, Viewing, and Listening: Each of you will be required to complete several internet readings, radio podcasts, and videos, all of which appear in the course outline below.

Recommended Reading and Other Work

Assessments. There are three required assessment tools for this course: 2 unit exams, 1 reading guide, and 25 reading quizzes. Please note that anything you write for this class and turn in to the professor must be duplicated and kept in your own files!

Unit exams (190 total points or 90 points for the first exam and 100 points for the second). Both exams will consist of broad essay questions related to the inclass course discussions, and the required reading, listening and viewing. The first exam on October 14th will cover all materials from Units I and II while the second exam on December 18th will cover all materials from Units III and IV. You must be present in class on both exam days to receive credit. There will be no make up exams. The exams will consist of three required components - written, oral, and evaluative - and one exra credit component as follows: Written component (80 points). A week before the exam, you will receive the questions, each of which will be related to the class discussions as well as the required reading, listening, and viewing. You must turn in your typewritten, grammatically correct answers to each question on the day of the exam. You may write your answers either in essay form or in a carefully organized outline format.

A week before the exam, you will receive the questions, each of which will be related to the class discussions as well as the required reading, listening, and viewing. You must turn in your typewritten, grammatically correct answers to each question on the day of the exam. You may write your answers either in essay form or in a carefully organized outline format. Oral component (10 points). For the oral component, the class will be divided into nine groups. When you come to class, you will work for 20 minutes within your assigned group of 7-8 classmates to determine how you will answer the one question that your group will be assigned. As a group, you will discuss the answers to your question and elect a spokesperson to explain your responses to the class at large. We will spend the remainder of class discussing how you individually and collectively answered the questions. You may take written notes on your typed exams and turn your exams in at the end of each oral exams.

For the oral component, the class will be divided into nine groups. When you come to class, you will work for 20 minutes within your assigned group of 7-8 classmates to determine how you will answer the one question that your group will be assigned. As a group, you will discuss the answers to your question and elect a spokesperson to explain your responses to the class at large. We will spend the remainder of class discussing how you individually and collectively answered the questions. You may take written notes on your typed exams and turn your exams in at the end of each oral exams. Evaluative component (10 points). You will be given an evaluation form at the beginning of the exam upon which you will evaluate your role in the examination and take notes on the important points made on each question during the oral discussion. This is worth 10 points.

You will be given an evaluation form at the beginning of the exam upon which you will evaluate your role in the examination and take notes on the important points made on each question during the oral discussion. This is worth 10 points. Extra credit component (5 extra points). An extra credit question will be added to each exam. You may only address this extra credit question if you answered each of the required questions on each exam. It is your choice whether to answer it or not. Reading guide (75 total points). For the book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, you must complete the essay questions in the reading guide that can be accessed by clicking here. This will be due at the beginning of class on December 2nd. Reading quizzes ( 84 total points - 21 quizzes of 4 points each ). We will have 26 days of instruction this semester and on all but the first day of class, you will receive a 3x5 card when you enter class. At any time during the course of each class meeting, you will be asked to write for 90 seconds about some aspect of that day's required reading, viewing, or listening. You may receive between 1-4 points for each day's response. Hints for studying your Foner text, Give Me Liberty. W.W. Norton has provided an extensive website for student support of this textbook which you can access at http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty3/welcome.aspx . Once in the "My Study Space" site, you will see a list of each chapter in the book in a black column that spread across the top of the page. Simply click on the number of the chapter you are reading. Once into each particular chapter, you will find a series of study options in the black margin to the left of your computer screen with the heading, "In this chapter." There are three study options that will help you prepare for the exam: "Author Insights Podcasts." Eric Foner has created hundreds of short, 1-3 minute podcasts on various aspects of each chapter. You can watch and listen to as many as you wish. "Chapter Study Outline." For each chapter, a concise outline helps you to understand the major topics discussed in the chapter, as well as the chapter organization. "iMaps." For each chapter, a series of imaps help you better understand the geopolitical nature of the chapter topic. You can click on and learn about each of the maps in each chapter

W.W. Norton has provided an extensive website for student support of this textbook which you can access at . Once in the "My Study Space" site, you will see a list of each chapter in the book in a black column that spread across the top of the page. Simply click on the number of the chapter you are reading. Once into each particular chapter, you will find a series of study options in the black margin to the left of your computer screen with the heading, "In this chapter." There are three study options that will help you prepare for the exam:

Grades : This semester, you have an opportunity to earn 349 total points . You will be responsible for picking up your exams and keeping track of the points you earn as the course progresses. Grade distribution is as follows:

349-314 = A

313-279 = B

278-244 = C

243-210 = D

209 and below = F

Extra Credit: Extra credit can help out with a "fence sitter" grade (i.e., it could help change your final course grade from a B to a B+). However, extra credit will not replace any required assignments that you do not complete. Once you complete any extra credit assignment, you must make arrangements to talk with one of the teaching assistants about what you learned. Following are some possible extra credit opportunities.

Syllabus Seminar - Questions about the course syllabus and requirements . On Tuesday, August 27th, I will be available in Founders Hall 163 from 6-7pm to discuss any questions you have about the course and the course syllabus. Please read through the course syllabus prior to coming to the seminar.

. On Tuesday, August 27th, I will be available in Founders Hall 163 from 6-7pm to discuss any questions you have about the course and the course syllabus. Please read through the course syllabus prior to coming to the seminar. Extra Credit Discussion: After each class meeting from 4:20-4:50, the Teaching Assistants will conduct a 30-minute discussion. The purpose of these discussions is to help you better understand the course content. At each discussion, the TAs will clarify any questions you have about the course discussions and required reading. This means you must come to the discussions with questions!! These discussions are completely voluntary. If you attend and if you participate in the discussion, you will receive 2 points.

After each class meeting from 4:20-4:50, the Teaching Assistants will conduct a 30-minute discussion. The purpose of these discussions is to help you better understand the course content. At each discussion, the TAs will clarify any questions you have about the course discussions and required reading. This means you must come to the discussions with questions!! If you attend in the discussion, you will receive 2 points. Extra credit question for each exam. An extra credit question will be added to each of the two take home exams. It is your choice whether to answer it or not - after you have answered the four required questions.

An extra credit question will be added to each of the two take home exams. It is your choice whether to answer it or not - after you have answered the four required questions. Outside activities. We live in a university community and we all have access to many learning activities outside of the classroom. Therefore, you may get extra credit for any of the following: Attending cultural events in the community and on campus as approved by the professor. Viewing historical movies and documentaries that either meets with the professor's approval, or that you find on the recommended list of videos at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/video.html Completing other activities approved by the professor

We live in a university community and we all have access to many learning activities outside of the classroom. Therefore, you may get extra credit for any of the following:

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Course Outline - History 110

This class is divided into four units of academic study. Under each of the four units, you will find the topic and link to the discussion guide for each day's discussion, as well as the required reading and a list of more information on the day's topic.

Unit I: Intrusions into an Old World and the Beginnings of a "New" World

8/26 - Introduction. Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/History110Intro2013.html

8/26-9/4 - The Europeans - Why They Left. Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/expl.html

Required for 8/28: Read Foner, Ch. 1 and watch the 5-minute cartoon produced in 1960, "Christopher Columbus" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvcb1IK6aw0

9/2 - Labor Day Holiday . No class

9/9 - The Original Inhabitants - What They Lost and What They Retained . Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/na.html

Required: Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch.1.

Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch.1. Recommended: The Iroquois Constitution at http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/iroquois.html

9/11- 9/16 - The Colonists - What They Created. Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/unit1/col.html

Required for 9/11 : Watch 2 videos: the 58-minute video, "Secrets of the Dead: Death at Jamestown" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMVAYX9kWG0 and the 12-minute video "Colonizing America: Crash Course" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o69TvQqyGdg&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s

Watch 2 videos: the 58-minute video, "Secrets of the Dead: Death at Jamestown" at the 12-minute video "Colonizing America: Crash Course" at Required for 9/16: Read Foner, Ch. 3 and watch one short video: "Forensic anthropology and archaeology confirm survival cannibalism in 17th-century North America" at http://www.historicjamestowne.org/jane/jane.php (read the short article and watch the short video)

Read Foner, Ch. 3 watch one short video: "Forensic anthropology and archaeology confirm survival cannibalism in 17th-century North America" at (read the short article and watch the short video) Recommended: Read Foner, Chapter 2. Rare colonial map collection at http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/colamer.html Go East, Young Man: How a drifter from Revolutionary Connecticut found the Pacific

http://www.common-place.org/vol-05/no-02/gray/index.shtm



9/18 - The Enslaved - What They Endured. Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/enslaved.html

Required: Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch. 2 and watch the 41-minute video, "The Terrible Transformation," Part I of Africans in America at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVIHLD63BfE

Recommended:

Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch. 3 Parts 2, 3, and 4 of Africans in America at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie1hlvoc7_A , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EgFeBSOQ78, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxdFBJXKMyY "Rebellion: The Largest Slave Rebellion in U.S. History" by J.B. Bird, 2005 at http://www.johnhorse.com/highlights/essays/largest.htm North American Slave Narratives http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/ Contemporary interactive map of slavery in the world today https://www.freetheslaves.net/SSLPage.aspx?pid=375 and http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0309/feature1/map.html



Unit II: Foundations of a New Nation and Experiments with Freedom

9/23 - Colonial Discontent. Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/Discontent.html

Required: Read Foner, Ch. 4 and listen to "Upward Mobility in America" podcast, NPR, On Point at http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/07/23/upward-mobility . View the map and then listen to the 45 minute podcast.

Read Foner, Ch. 4 listen to "Upward Mobility in America" podcast, NPR, On Point at . View the map and then listen to the 45 minute podcast. Recommended: Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch. 4 Full Text of Bacon's Declaration at http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/D/1651-1700/bacon_rebel/berke.htm



9/25-9/30 - Revolution or Evolution ? Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/unit2/revolution.html

Required for 9/25 - Read Foner, Chapter 5 and watch the 12-minute video "Who Won the American Revolution: Crash Course" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EiSymRrKI4&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s

Read Foner, Chapter 5 and watch the 12-minute video "Who Won the American Revolution: Crash Course" at Required for 9/30 - Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch. 5

Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch. 5 Recommended : Read Foner, Ch. 6. The HBO Miniseries, John Adams, Parts 1-4. For an article questioning the film's historical accuracy see http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/03/26/historically_accurate_tv_a_revolutionary_idea/ Map and clickable guide to the American Revolution http://www.mrnussbaum.com/amflash.htm Revolutionary War Timeline see http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/revwartimeline.htm



10/7-10/9 - Founding Moments . Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/unit2/constitution.html

Required for 10/2 (this class was canceled): Read Foner, Ch. 7 and watch the 13-minute video "The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism: Crash Course" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO7FQsCcbD8&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s

Read Foner, Ch. 7 watch the 13-minute video "The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism: Crash Course" at Required Reading for 10/7: Foner, Ch. 8. and watch the 13-minute video "Women in the 19th Century: Crash Course" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM1czS_VYDI&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s

Foner, Ch. 8. watch the 13-minute video "Women in the 19th Century: Crash Course" at Recommended : Read Foner, Ch. 8. Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch. 6 The HBO Miniseries, John Adams, Parts 5-7 .



10/14 - First Unit Exam - Attendance is Required. Exam covers all class discussion materials and required reading from Units I and II.

Unit III: Movement Westward and Manifest Destiny

10/16-10/21 - The Geographic Consequences of Manifest Destiny. Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110//geography.html

Required for 10/16: Read Foner, Ch. 9 and watch the 14-minute video "The Market Revolution: Crash Course" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNftCCwAol0&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s

Read Foner, Ch. 9 watch the 14-minute video "The Market Revolution: Crash Course" at Required for 10/21: Watch the 52-minute video"Secrets of the Dead: Death on the Railroad" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1UosxS9ahE

Watch the 52-minute video"Secrets of the Dead: Death on the Railroad" at Recommended : Map of Railroad and land grants http://www.landgrant.org/maps-us1.html The Mormon Pioneer Trail http://www.lds.org/gospellibrary/pioneer/pioneerstory.htm U.S. Territorial Expansion Maps, 1775-1920 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/terr_hp.htm



10/23-10/30- - The Political and Social Consequences of Manifest Destiny. Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/unit3/political.html

Required for 10/23: Read Foner, Ch. 10.

Read Foner, Ch. 10. Required for 10/28: Read Foner, Ch .12

Read Foner, Ch .12 Required for 10/30: Watch the 5-minute video on Andrew Jackson at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3dw2v69I6Y

11/4 - Whose Manifest Destiny? The Conquest of Northern Mexico. Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/unit3/MexicanAmericanWar.html

Required Viewing: History Channel film, The Mexican American War at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKNZfBOVgJA (viewing time of 1 hr. and 28 minutes).

History Channel film, The Mexican American War at (viewing time of 1 hr. and 28 minutes). Recommended: Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch. 8. The Competing Legacies of Junípero Serra: Pioneer, saint, villian

http://www.common-place.org/vol-05/no-02/hackel/index.shtm ; Mexican American War - more information http://www.historyguy.com/Mexican-American_War.html and http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/index_flash.html



11/6-11/13 - Whose Manifest Destiny? The Federal Government and American Indian Nations. Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/unit3/indians.html

Required for 11/6: Watch the "Doctrine of Discovery" at http://intercontinentalcry.org/native-america-discovered-and-conquered featuring Robert J. Miller, Associate Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon and Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon.

Watch the "Doctrine of Discovery" at featuring Robert J. Miller, Associate Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon and Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. Required for 11/13: Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch. 7.

Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch. 7. Recommended : Current map of US tribes by state index at http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/tribesbystate.html ; Current map of federally-recognized California tribes at http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/ca/california.html ; Current map of federally-owned land and reservations at http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/fedlands.html



Unit IV: Crumbling Loyalties and Dividing the Nation

11/18-11/20 - The "Straws that broke the Camel's Back:" The Coming of the Civil War . Discussion Guides may be accessed at. http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/unit4/SectionalIssues.html

Required for 11/18: Read Foner, Ch. 11

Read Foner, Ch. 11 Required for 11/20: Watch two videos: the 3:54-minute video on the causes of the Civil War at http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/videos#america-divided and the 2:41-minute video on the greatest myths of the Civil War at http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/videos#civil-wars-greatest-myth

Watch two videos: the 3:54-minute video on the causes of the Civil War at and the 2:41-minute video on the greatest myths of the Civil War at Recommended: Read Foner, Ch. 13. Read Zinn and Arnove, Ch. 9. Historical Slave Maps at http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/slave-maps/slave-maps.htm Map of Free and Slave States 1860 http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/slave-maps/map-free-slave-states.htm



12/2-12/4 - The Civil War: Goals, Strategies, and Consequences . Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/unit4/CivilWar.html

12/9-12/11 - Topic 3: Reconstruction and the Long-Term Consequences. Discussion Guides may be accessed at http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/unit4/Reconstruction.html

Required for 12/9: Watch Eric Foner's 55-minute discussion "Reconstruction and Citizenship" at http://vimeo.com/20345803

Watch Eric Foner's 55-minute discussion "Reconstruction and Citizenship" at Required for 12/11: Watch the 90-minute video "Slavery by another Name" at http://video.pbs.org/video/2176766758/

Watch the 90-minute video "Slavery by another Name" at Recommended: Read Foner, Ch. 15. Reconstruction Timeline at http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/chron.html



12/18 from 3-4:50 pm - 2nd Unit Exam - U nits III and IV Take Home Exam . Attendance is required. Exam covers all class discussion and required reading from Units III and IV.

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Major skills of the History Department met by this course: This course meets four major skills that the History Department believes historians need and that history majors should develop as they progress through the major: writing, critical thinking, historiography and methodology, and oral presentation.

Writing. Each of the assignments for this course requires you to use writing skills.

Each of the assignments for this course requires you to use writing skills. Research. Each of you will have the opportunity to address a research question included as extra credit in each of the take home examinations.

Each of you will have the opportunity to address a research question included as extra credit in each of the take home examinations. Critical thinking. Each of you will be asked to use critical thinking when completing every course requirement, as well as during the discussions that take place during every class period. A particularly important critical thinking component in this course requires you to compare and contrast the primary documents you will read in Zinn and Arnove's Voices of a People's History - which is comprised of voices of resistance from the eras we study - and in Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - which is a primary document published in 1861 on the eve of the Civil War - with the secondary information from our course textbook, Foner's Give Me Liberty.

Each of you will be asked to use critical thinking when completing every course requirement, as well as during the discussions that take place during every class period. A particularly important critical thinking component in this course requires you to compare and contrast the primary documents you will read in Zinn and Arnove's Voices of a People's History - which is comprised of voices of resistance from the eras we study - and in Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - which is a primary document published in 1861 on the eve of the Civil War - with the secondary information from our course textbook, Foner's Give Me Liberty. Historiography and methodology. Each of you will gain a better understanding of what historians actually do by examining the theories and viewpoints of various historians - many of which are carefully integrated into most of our class discussions. For most of our topics - especially those related to the American Revolution, slavery, western expansion, and the Civil War - you will learn how historians agree and disagree about causes and consequences.

Each of you will gain a better understanding of what historians by examining the theories and viewpoints of various historians - many of which are carefully integrated into most of our class discussions. For most of our topics - especially those related to the American Revolution, slavery, western expansion, and the Civil War - you will learn how historians agree and disagree about causes and consequences. Oral presentation. Each of you will be required to give some kind of oral presentation during the course of the semester.

Please note that you are responsible for knowing the following information about HSU policies: