Schedule

Introduction and Topic 1
8/24-9/2
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Early Societies and European Conquest

Reading Assignments-Top Hat modules 1 and 2: Primary Source Assignment- Top Hat module 1, “Letter from Christopher Columbus to Luis de Sant’Angel, February 15, 1493” Due 9/5

Library Session
9/4
Woodward Library 209

Essay Assignment Workshop

Review the assignment guidelines for both essays before attending.

Labor Day
9/7

Class Cancelled

Topic 2
9/9-14
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The Early English Colonies

Reading Assignment- Top Hat module 3; Primary Source Discussion- Top Hat module 3, “Chief Powhatan’s Address to John Smith (1609)” Due 9/17

Topic 3
9/16-21
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The Late Colonies and Dawn of Revolution

Reading Assignment- Top Hat module 4 and 5; Primary Source Discussion- Top Hat module 4, “Poems by Phillis Wheatley” Due 9/24

Topic 4
9/23-28
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The Revolution

Primary Source Writing Assignment: Due 9/28

Reading Assignment-Top Hat module 6; Primary Source Discussion- Top Hat module 6, “Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776” Due 10/1

Topic 5
9/30-10/7
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The Constitution and Early Republic

Reading Assignments-Top Hat modules 7 and 8; Primary Source Discussion- Top Hat module 7, “Pro-Slavery Petitions from Virginia (1785)” Due 10/10

Midterm Exam
10/9
Claxton 111

Fall Break
10/12

Class Cancelled

Topic 6
10/14-19
Claxton 111

Jeffersonian America

Reading Assignment-Top Hat module 9; Primary Source Discussion- Top Hat module 9, “Major General Andrew Jackson, “To the Colored Inhabitants of Louisiana,” September 14, 1814” Due 10/22

Topic 7
10/21-26
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Immigration and Industry

Reading Assignment-Top Hat module 10; Primary Source Discussion- Top Hat module 10, “Sarah Bagley to Lilly Martin (1846)” Due 10/29

Topic 8
10/28-11/2
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Jacksonian Democracy

Reading Assignment-Top Hat module 11; Primary Source Discussion- Top Hat module 11, “A Memorial of a Delegation of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, May 3, 1830” Due 11/5

Topic 9
11/4-9
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North and South

Reading Assignment-Top Hat module 12; Primary Source Discussion- Top Hat module 12, “Frederick Douglass’s speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society, (1848)” Due 11/12

Veteran's Day
11/11

Class Cancelled

Topic 10
11/13-20
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War with Mexico and the Slavery Crisis

11/14: Secondary Source Writing Assignment Due

Reading Assignment-Top Hat modules 13 and 14; Primary Source Discussion- Top Hat module 14, “Abraham Lincoln responds to the Dred Scott decision (1857)” Due 11/23

Topic 11
11/23-12/2
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The Civil War

Reading Assignment-Top Hat module 15; Primary Source Discussion- Top Hat module 15, “Chaplain C. W. Buckley to Lt. Austin R. Mills, February 1, 1865” Due 12/5

11/25-27 Thanksgiving- No class meeting

Final Exam
12/10/2026
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Claxton 111