| Course Title: The American Peoples to 1865 |
| Start Date: 08/24/2020 End Date: 10/15/2020 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2020 |
| Description: This course surveys the history of Indigenous worlds, colonial projects, enslavement, and the contested transformation of lives and communities in North America through the U.S. Civil War and wars in the West. How did Indigenous people and people of African descent assert sovereignty, create new bonds, and partake in the creation of new nations in landscapes of violence and subjugation? How did settler political and economic strategies shape the land and life upon it? Topics include cross-cultural encounters, competing religious and social visions, the formation of the United States and its political system, gender, migration, the development of racial capitalism, and the Civil War. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Lynda Morgan | 413-538-2453 | ljmorgan@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020 | Flex. Immersive Lecture | Monday | 07:00PM - 08:15PM | TBA | TBA | Weekly |
| 08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020 | Flex. Immersive Lecture | Tuesday and Thursday | 07:00PM - 08:00PM | Weekly | ||
| 08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020 | Flex. Immersive Lecture | Wednesday and Friday | 07:00PM - 08:45PM | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Meets History department's pre-1750 requirement. |
| Course Tags | ||
| MOD0001 | MOD-1: Courses meeting in Module 1 | This course meets in Module 1. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 28 | Enrollment: 20 | Available: 8 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Voices of Freedom Author: Foner, Eric Copyright: 2019 Edition: 6th Volume: 1 ISBN: Publisher: WW Norton |
Required | 10.00 |
| Title: A People and a Nation (textbook) Author: Sheriff, Carol (et. al.) Copyright: 2019 Edition: 11 Volume: 1 ISBN: 101337402729 Publisher: Cengage |
Required | 33.99 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: You have two options to get the Foner book: either rent it as an ebook from the publisher, W. W. Norton, ($10 for 180 days), or from Amazon ($14). You can also buy it from Amazon for $15. Please ensure that you get the sixth edition. For the textbook, your best bet is probably renting from Cengage, the publisher, but you can also get it from Amazon and likely many other places if you search. |