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History 1302
The United States to 1865
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Spring 2009 CRN 24845
Tues & Thurs 10:30-11:50
UGLC 116
Dr. Jeffrey P. Shepherd
HIST 1302
-Liberal Arts Building
-Rm. 326
-Office Hours:
T & TH 9:00-10:30
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Assistant Instructors
Deborah Jill Constantin
Roland Rodriguez
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Course Overview
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Course syllabus
Goals and objectives
Main themes
Policies
Exams
Readings & assignments
How to succeed
POP QUIZ
1. What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
2. What/who are Suffragists?
3. Give me a name of a labor union
4. What national event happened in 1929?
5. Who was J. Edgar Hoover?
6. Who is Delores Huerta?
7. What does NAFTA stand for?
8. When did the Vietnam War happen?
9. Who fought in the Cold War?
Continued
10. What is a “sit-in” ?
11. What did the G.I. Bill help people do?
12. Name the president that resigned in the
1970s.
13. When was the first Gulf War?
14. How many Native Americans are there in the
United States today?
15. Name one female Latina politician
Ideas and Concepts
How to “do history”
A. Just the facts
1. Names, dates, battles, presidents
2. One objective TRUTH (false)
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B. Different approaches
1. Arguments and evidence
2. Perspectives & interpretations
C. Sources and methods
History and the Present
A. Discrimination
1. Indians and Europeans
2. Significance
B. Propaganda
1. Self-serving & “feel good history”
2. Citizenship and patriotism
3. Simplification: Good vs. Evil
C. “Pop History”
1. Media (Fox News)
2. Textbooks
Why Important?
A. Who we are
1. National identity
2. Multicultural society
B. Historical consciousness
1. “Why things are the way they are”
C. Historical Change
1. Unpredictable
2. Patterns and themes
3. People & forces make history
D. Where we are going……?
QUESTIONS?