David Lauderback
Professor of History

Course Schedule
US History I

 http://www.austincc.edu/dlauderb

 

 

HIST 1301 048 & 049

MW 7:30 - 8:50 & 9:00am - 10:20am

SYN 45768 & 45769

RGC 025

 

 

Date

Topic

Reading

Assignment

UNIT 1:  “The Colonial Experience” — 1492-1763

 Jan. 18  “The Useable Past”    
 Jan. 23  “Il Rinascimento”
Ch. 2
 

 Jan. 25

 “Columbian Exchange”
Ch. 1

 Jan. 30

 “Chesapeake Bay”
Ch. 3
SELECT BOOK

 Feb. 1

 “White Over Black”

 

REVIEW NOTE CARDS

 Feb. 6

 “The City on the Hill”
Ch. 4
 

 Feb. 8

 “The Middle Ground”

 Feb. 13

 “War for Empire”
Ch. 5
 Feb. 15  UNIT 1 EXAM“The Colonial Experience” — 1492-1763    

UNIT 2:  “Building a Nation” — 1763-1815

 Feb. 20

 “‘No Taxation Without Representation’”
 Ch. 6

 Feb. 22

 “War for Independence”
 Ch. 7
 

 Feb. 27

 “Contagion of Liberty”    

 Feb. 29

 “Making the Constitution”
 Ch. 8
REVIEW NOTE CARDS

 Mar. 5

 “The United States of America”
 Ch. 9
 Mar. 7  UNIT 2 EXAM“Building a Nation” — 1763-1815    

MAR 12 - 18 SPRING BREAK -- NO CLASS

UNIT 3:  “The Market Revolution” — 1815-1840

 Mar. 19

 “Wages of Whiteness”
 Ch. 10
 

 Mar. 21

 “Marshall Court”  

 Mar. 26

 “Jacksonian Persuasion”
 Ch. 11

 Mar. 28

 “Politics, Parties, and Portent”    

 Apr. 2

 “Market, Family, & Morality”
 Ch. 12
 

 Apr. 4

 “Second Great Awakening”  
REVIEW NOTE CARDS
 Apr. 9  UNIT 3 EXAM“The Market Revolution”
— 1815-1840
   

UNIT 4: “A Nation Divided” — 1840-1877

 Apr. 11

 “The Slave Economy”

Ch. 13

 Apr. 16

 “A Slave Society”  
MAKE-UP EXAM 

 Apr. 18

 “Manifest Destiny”

Ch. 14

 Apr. 23

 “Free Soil”

 

LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW

 Apr. 25

 “Sectional Crisis”
Ch. 15
 

 Apr. 30

 “Civil War”

Ch. 16

 May 2

 “Reconstruction”
Ch. 17

 May 7

 UNIT 4 EXAM“A Nation Divided” — 1840-1877    

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