This is a self-paced version of my popular live United States History Part 2 course.  Students may join even if they did not complete part 1. Optionally, this class can coordinate with the class I also offer on American Literature (which is also available as a flex class).  This class is taught at a standard level, however, I am able to offer additional work as well as AP designation on your transcript if you would like your student to take this class at an AP level, as I have AP authorization--please contact me about this option.

This course is a rhetorical level course intended to introduce the student to the major themes and moments in US history.  This course will involve both writing and reading.  We will be reading a full-range of primary documents from each time period and geographical area we study.  You will be learning how to read, think about, analyze, argue with, and present ideas about history and to connect events to the larger trends and themes in world history.

As a flexible schedule version of my US History 2 course, this course will offer no live class meetings.  Instead, your student will have access to 1-2 class recordings weekly to watch, as well as additional written and visual documents to augment the recording.  The student will also have various quizzes and interactive assignments to check their understanding of the video content, creating a workshop feel during the 15 weeks.  Also each week, student's will have an opportunity to complete their own longer writing assignments related to the class content and to receive individualized teacher feedback.  I will be available for office hours and meetings throughout the course by appointment to work with your schedule and your time zone. 

This class covers a time period in United States history that deals with problems of racism and discrimination, as well as efforts made to correct those problems in the legal, economic, and societal institutions of the country.  This class will utilize primary documents from a variety of sources to give voice to those marginalized groups throughout those struggles.  

1. Westward

2. The economy of the Old South

3. Slavery and Sectionalism

4. Civil War

5.  Civil War strategy

6.  Presentations on Civil War battles due

7.  Life on the Home Front

8. Reconstruction

9.  Debate on the various approaches to Reconstruction

10.  The West

11. The Gilded Age

12. The City

13.  Industrialization cont

14.  Reform movements

15.  Test 1

16. Progressivism

17. WWI

18. Modernism

19. New Era
 
20. The New Deal

21. WW2

22. Atomic Bomb and Truman

23.  Cold War diplomacy

24. The 50s Consumerism and McCarthyism

25.  Korean War

26.  Civil Rights Era

27. 60s Protests and Counter culture

28. 70s Vietnam

29. 80s and 90s Conservatism and end of the Cold War

30. Final test