United States History (Full Year) - Ongoing

This is an ongoing class that covers a different piece of US History each session through primary sources and class discussion. Each session is a different topic and assignment so students can join in at any time. Most classes will start with a short lecture on the topic, then students will spend some time reading historical sources and answering guiding questions, and last we will discuss the readings as a class. Some sessions we will do more than one set of readings and questions during class, depending on time. 

I will post the class material for students each week, so students need no outside materials. Though we will cover events chronologically, we will not cover every part of United States History. Instead, each session will focus on a topic (or two) that we will deep dive into. You can find a full list of the topics and dates below.

All of my classes, especially my US History classes, are inclusive and anti-racist. We will be covering tough subjects and tackling tough topics from the point of view of the people involved, particularly the marginalized groups involved.



Summer Session Topics and Dates:

Week of 6/9/25-6/13/25 -- Session 1: Intro to Thinking Like an Historian; Session 2: Middle Passage lesson
Week of 6/16/25-9/20/25 -- Session 1: Examining Passenger Lists lesson and Salem Witch Trials lesson; Session 2: Loyalist lesson and Declaration of Independence lesson
Week of 6/23/25-6/27/25 -- Session 1: Federalist & Anti-Federalist lesson and Hamilton/Jefferson lesson; Session 2: Louisiana Purchase and Manifest Destiny lesson
Week of 6/30/25-7/4/25 -- Session 1: John Brown lesson; Session 2: Sharecropping lesson and Great Plains Homesteaders lesson
Week of 7/7/25-7/11/25 -- no class
Week of 7/14/25-7/18/25 -- Session 1: Child Labor Laws lesson; Session 2: Political Bosses lesson and Suffrage/Anti-Suffrage lesson
Week of 7/21/25-7/25/25 -- no class
Week of 7/28/25-8/1/25 -- Session 1: WWI Mapwork and US Entry into WWI lesson; Session 2: Dust Bowl lesson
Week of 8/4/25-8/8/25 -- Session 1: Japanese Internment during WWII lesson and Women in the 1950s lesson; Session 2: The Cold War lesson
Week of 8/11/25-18/15/25 -- Session 1: Montgomery Bus Boycott lesson; Session 2: JFK and Civil Rights lesson
Week of 8/18/25-8/22/25 -- Session 1: Stonewall Riots lesson; Session 2: Reaganomics lesson
Week of 8/25/25-8/29/25 -- Session 1: NAFTA lesson; Session 2: Hurricane Katrina lesson