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Statewide Required Topics:
Themes may include but are not limited to class, race, gender, and ethnicity; immigration; systems of labor; intellectual, technological, environmental, social, and cultural history; and foreign relations.
1. Introduction to basic methods of historical research and analysis.
2. Reconstruction and the New South.
3. Immigration, industrialization, and urbanization in the Gilded Age.
4. Closing of the frontier and Resistance of Indigenous Peoples.
5. Progressive Era Reform Movements.
6. Imperialist expansion and emergence of the United States as a world power.
7. World War I.
8. Post-War America and the 1920s.
9. The Great Depression and the New Deal.
10. World War II and Its Aftermath.
11. Cold War Era.
12. Civil Rights Movements.
13. Vietnam, the Great Society, and the Transformation of America.
14. From Nixon to Reagan.
15. Entering the New Millennium.
16. Twenty-first century and the recent past.
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1. Reading Assignments consist of either primary or secondary sources (30 to 50 pages per week)
2. A research component will be assigned, such as a project, a paper, or presentation.
3. Writing Assignments (2000-4000 total words) that will critically interpret primary and secondary sources, such as:
a. Analytical essays
b. Research papers
c. Reaction papers
4. Exam(s) (1-2) and a final. All exams must include writing (essays or short answers) with optional objective questions. Face-to-face classes will have a minimum two in-class exams; online classes will have a minimum two timed exams.
5. Participation in discussions
6. Note taking (ungraded)
7. Additional assignments as determined by instructor may include:
a. Objective quizzes
b. Group work
c. Presentations
d. Journals
8. Online sections; additional writing assignments of 500-1000 words may be assigned
Statewide Required Methods of Evaluation:
Methods of formative and summative evaluation used to observe or measure students' achievement of course outcomes and objectives must include academic writing and research.
Additional methods of evaluation are encouraged and at the discretion of local faculty and may incorporate assessments and exercises such as journals, quizzes, discussions, group work, and presentations.
Expanded and Additional Local Methods of Evaluation: See table below.
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Statewide Representative Textbooks:
Instructor discretion to choose scholarly and primary sources that enable an academic interrogation of history. Types of Course Materials: textbook; classics; document reader; scholarly articles; and/or monograph
Representative Texts:
Carnes, Mark C. and John A. Garraty. 2021. The American Nation. Pearson.
Corbett, P. Scott, Janssen Volker, John Lund "U.S. History. OpenStax Free Textbooks Online." (OER). 2024.
Faragher, John Mack, Mari Jo Buhle, et al. 2021. Out of Many: A History of the American People. Pearson.
Foner, Eric, Kathleen DuVal, and Lisa McGirr. 2022. Give Me Liberty! W.W. Norton Company.
Goldfield, David, Carol Abbott, et al. 2021. The American Journey. Pearson.
Kamensky, Jane, Carol Sheriff, et al. 2017. A People and a Nation: A History of the United States. Cengage.
Kennedy, David M. and Lizabeth Cohen. 2024. The American Pageant. Cengage Learning.
Locke, John and Ben Wright. American Yawp (OER). Stanford University Press.
Murrin, John, Pekka Hämäläinen, et al. 2019. Liberty, Equality, Power. Cengage Learning.
Nash, Gary, Julie Roy, et al. 2023. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society. Pearson.
Roark, James L., Michael P. Johnson , et al. 2022. The American Promise. Bedford/St. Martin's.
Tindall, George Brown and David E. Shi 2022. America: A Narrative History. W.W. Norton & Company.
U.S. History Open Stax.
Supplemental Options:
Calloway, Colin G. 2024. First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of Native American History.Bedford/St. Martin's.
Brown, Leslie, Jacqueline Castledine, et al. 2017. U.S. Women's History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood. Rutgers University Press.
DuBois, Ellen and Lynn Dumenil. 2024. Through Women's Eyes, Combined Volume: An American History with Documents. Macmillan Learning.
White, Deborah Gray, Mia Bay, et al. 2020. Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, with Documents. Macmillan Learning.
Kendi, Ibram X. Christopher Dontrell Piper, et al. 2017. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Bold Type Books.
Choy, Catherine Ceniza, Cindy Kay, et al. 2023. Asian American Histories of the United States. Beacon Press.
Ling, Huping. 2023. Asian American History. Rutgers University Press.
Gonzales, Manuel G. 2019. Mexicanos, Third Edition: A History of Mexicans in the United States. Indiana University Press.