LECTURE OUTLINES

W Sept 3: Introductions

M Sept 8: 1492 in World History

W Sept 10: Conquest, Commerce, and Conversion

M Sept 15: Pilgrims and Puritans: what (and why) was the “City on a Hill?”

W Sept 17: Contrasting World Views on the Eastern Seaboard: Algonkian and English

M Sept 22: The Blurry World of Contact

W Sept 24: From Salem (1692) to the Age of Reason (1794)

M Sept 29: Enlightenment, Enterprise, and the Origins of American Capitalism

W Oct 1: Slavery and History

M Oct 6: Making Americans Through War, Politics, and Protest

W Oct 8: From Rebellion to Revolution to Independence

W Oct 15: Constituting a Republic

W Oct 22: Presidential Partisanship in the Early Republic

M Oct 27: Millhands and Deckhands: Industrialization at Land and at Sea

W Nov 5: "Manifest Destiny" and the War Against Mexico

M Nov 10: Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

W Nov 12: Women's Wrongs and Rights

M Nov 17: Universal Reformers and Utopian Experiments

W Nov 19: Migration, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Antebellum America

M Nov 24: Resistance and Rebellion: Creating the Confederate States of America

W Nov 26: War in Minnesota--Extra Credit Film

M Dec 1: Lincoln, Douglas, and Race

W Dec 3: Civil War, Reconstruction, and American Unification