Credits: 3
Instructor: Elizabeth Healey
Office: BR25C or NERC 326
Office hours: TBA
Email: ehealey@ccp.edu
Note: Internet students use internal WebStudy emailing for contact after the course begins.
Enduring Vision, concise 5th edition, Boyer, et al.
Atlas of American
History
The texts are available at the College bookstore. Since they are all from the same publisher, the price is less than usual.
Prerequisites: Students must be English 101 ready. There are no other prerequisites for this course.
Course Level: Undergraduate
Department: History and Philosophy
Current Session: 2007 Spring
Course Description and Objectives: History 102 is a course dealing with events of the 19th century in American history. The Civil War, both its origins and its consequences, is the key event of this period in American history. Many covered topics such as slavery, freed blacks, abolition, slave narratives, the course of the War itself and Reconstruction are directly linked to the pivotal War itself. There are other important topics such as the gradual evolution of the political system as it exists today; the American tendency to relate religion and politics; the unfortunate, shameful really, treatment of Indians in all parts of the U.S. but especially the West; the immigration of the Irish and Germans and later Italians, Poles, Jews and other groups and their relation to industrialization and westward expansion; the cowboy sub-culture; and, finally, the emergence of organized feminism for the first time in history.
Course Evaluation: This is a History course taught on-line. It is, in other ways, similar to other History courses you have taken. Each week there are readings from the text and, often, some supplementary readings. There are tasks taken online that are similar to in-class activities. Student evaluation is based on the following: Participation in Forums--15%; student performance on Short Writing Assignments--25%; student performance on three Major Writing Assignments--60%.
Week 1—Introduction and orientation to Online History 103
Week 2—Origins of American Politics and Economics
Chapters 8 and 9—Boyer
Chapter 3 Hoffman
Week 3—Westward movement, the Market Revolution, and Indian Removal
Chapters 8 and 9—Boyer
Chapter 7—Hoffman
Week 4--Nationalism, Sectionalism, and Expansionism in the
Age of
Chapter 10—Boyer
Chapter 8—Hoffman
Week 5—Reform and the Great Awakening in the Early Nineteenth Century
Chapter 10—Boyer
Chapter 9—Hoffman
Week 6—Women, Men and the Family at Midcentury
Chapters 10 and 11—Boyer
Chapter 11—Hoffman
Week 7—Commercial Development and immigration in the North at Midcentury
Chapter 12—Boyer
Chapter 11—Hoffman
Week 8—Agricultural Development and Slavery in the South at Midcentury
Chapter 13—Boyer
Chapter 12—Hoffman
Week 9—Slavery
Frederick Douglass—slave narrative
Harriet Jacobs—slave narrative
Week 10—Careening toward the Civil War
Chapter 14—Boyer
Chapter 13—Hoffman
Week 11—The Civil War
Chapter 15—Boyer
Chapter 14—Hoffman
Week 12—Reconstruction
Chapter 16—Boyer
Chapter 15—Hoffman
Week 13—Western Settlement and the Frontier in American History
Chapter 17—Boyer
Additional materials available online
Week 14—Industrialization, Workers, and the New Immigration
Chapters 18 and 19—Boyer
Additional materials online
Week 15—Final Paper