This is an ongoing class that covers a different piece of US History each week through primary sources and class discussion. Each week 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 the passages for the week and answering guiding questions, and last we will discuss the readings as a class. Some weeks 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 week 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.

**If you have taken my year long US History class, these assignments are all different so you can take both the US History and this ongoing class one after the other or at the same time!**


Fall Session Topics and Dates:

Week of 9/9/24-9/13/24 -- Primary vs Secondary Sources lecture; Pocahontas; Puritans
Week of 9/16/24-9/20/24 -- Great Awakening; Shay's Rebellion
Week of 9/23/24-9/27/24 -- Boston Massacre
Week of 9/30/24-10/4/24 -- American Revolution 
Week of 10/7/24-10/11/24 -- no class
Week of 10/14/24-10/18/24 -- Second Middle Passage
Week of 10/21/24-10/25/24 -- Gold Rush in San Francisco
Week of 10/28/24-11/1/24 -- Texas Revolution
Week of 11/4/24-11/8/24 -- Chinese Immigration and Exclusion
Week of 11/11/24-11/15/24 -- Irish in 19th Century America
Week of 11/18/24-11/22/24 -- Juana Briones and California in the 1800s
Week of 11/25/24-11/29/24 -- no class
Week of 12/2/24-12/6/24 -- Reconstruction
Week of 12/9/24-12/13/24 -- Albert Parsons
Week of 12/16/24-12/20/24 -- Annexation of Hawaii
Week of 12/23/24-12/27/24 -- no class
Week of 12/30/24-1/3/25 -- no class