History 111
Introduction to (early) US History
Fall 2014
Dale Graden

Overview

August 26-28

Introduction, a Continent of Villages

Sept 2-4

Indigenous and European Worlds Collide

Sept 9-11

Colonial North America

Sept 16-18

Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in the Americas

Sept 23-25

18^th Century Cultures

Sept 30-Oct 2

Pondering Independence

Oct 7-9

US Revolution (a.k.a. The American Revolution)

Oct 14-16

A New Nation

Oct 21-23

US expansionism

Oct 28-30

Slave regimes and Southern Cultures

Nov 4-6

Expansion of democracy

Nov 11-13

Industrial Revolution

Nov 18-20

Immigration, Urbanization, Social Reform

Nov 25-27, Thanksgiving break

Dec 2-4

The Coming Crisis

Dec 9-11

Civil War and Reconstruction

Readings

John Mack Faragher et.al., Out of Many: A History of the American People, brief sixth edition along with MyHistoryLab