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I. History as Social Science
A. Understanding the present through analyzing the past
B. Methods of inquiry, primary and secondary sources, analysis, and critical thinking
II. African American Historiography: Black Americans and the Historians, 1880 - Present
III. African Roots of African American Culture
A. Africa and the ancient world
B. West African society and culture
C. Early encounters with Europeans
IV. African Diaspora: Slavery and the Atlantic World
A. Impact of the slave trade on Africa, Europe, and the Americas
B. Slave societies of the Western Hemisphere: a comparative view
C. Slavery in British colonial America
V. Blacks and the American Revolution: Race, Slavery, and "Natural Rights" Philosophy
VI. Slavery and the "Cotton Kingdom"
A. The "peculiar institution" and antebellum America
B. Culture of resistance: "the world the slaves made"
VII. North of Slavery: Free Blacks in Antebellum America
VIII. Slavery and a Nation Divided
A. The abolitionist crusade
B. Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and political realignments
C. "Irrepressible Conflict": the road to civil war
IX. The Civil War: "Second American Revolution"
A. From war for union to war for emancipation
B. Blacks and the Union
C. Blacks and the Confederacy
X. Reconstruction: "Failed Revolution"
A. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
B. Republicans - black and white
C. Southern white resistance and the Compromise of 1877
XI. African Americans and the "New South"
A. Contract labor, sharecropping, and the convict-lease system
B. "Separate but equal": Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
C. Washington and Du Bois: accommodation vs. protest
XII. Race Relations and Imperial America
A. "Exodusters," "Buffalo Soldiers," and the trans-Mississippi West
B. Racial ideology and the Spanish American War
C. White supremacy triumphant
XIII. World War I, the Great Migration, and the "New Negro"
A. Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
B. Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age
C. African Americans and the New Deal
XIV. World War II: Seeds of Revolution
A. Phillip Randolph and the March on Washington Movement
B. "Double 'V'": the fight at home and abroad
XV. The Civil Rights Movement
A. Racial reform and Cold War politics
B. Civil disobedience and the strategy of nonviolence
C. Martin Luther King: from Montgomery to "I Have a Dream"
D. Successes and failures: 1954 - 1965
XVI. Black Power and the Sixties
A. Malcolm X and nascent black consciousness
B. Black Panther Party and anti-capitalist critique
C. Black Student Movement and Black Studies
D. Black Feminist Movements
E. Rise of black elected officials
XVII. Johnson's Great Society and Conservative Reaction
A. The Vietnam War and inner-city rebellions
B. "White flight" and inner-city poverty
C. Conservative challenge to New Deal/Great Society liberalism
D. Progress and poverty at the end of the 20th century
XVIII. African Americans in the 21st Century
A. Hip Hop Nation, black cultural expression, and the American mainstream
B. Election of Barack Obama
C. Black Lives Matter and Black Activism in the 21st century
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