HIST 152 On-line:
Nineteenth-Century
American History

I teach Nineteenth-Century American History both on-campus and on-line. Although the course objectives are the same, I take different approaches to the course depending on the modality in which I am teaching in.

In the on-line version of the course, you will learn the course material by participating in class discussions, doing individual research, reading the text books, and reacting to films.

Additional Information

Following is additional information about the class.

• Orientation

• Text Book

• Course Schedule

• Assessment

Course Description

This course is a survey of the expansion, crisis and renewal of the U.S. in the 19th century: demographic, economic, social and cultural change in Jacksonian America; the North and antebellumreform movements; the South and slavery; the West andterritorial conquest and settlement; sectional struggle, the Civil War and Reconstruction; and emergence of modern, urban, industrial America, to the beginning of the 20th century.

Prerequisites

None.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:

1. Demonstrate a clear, factual and conceptual understanding of the historical development of American civilization from a fledgling republic in the early nineteenth-century to an emerging world power on the eve of the twentieth-century.

2. While focusing on the historical period covered by the course, use research and writing to develop an awareness of history as a means of reflecting and evaluating the human experience, both in the past and in contemporary times.

3. Analyze the unique geographical history of the regions/time-period covered by the course as well as the role geography played in those regions.

4. Explain major constitution issues that emerged during the nineteenth-century.