This is a survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of the United States from the pre-Columbian era to the Civil War/Reconstruction period. United States History I includes the study of pre-Columbian, colonial, revolutionary, early national, slavery and sectionalism, and the Civil War/Reconstruction eras. Themes that may be addressed in United States History I include: American settlement and diversity, American culture, religion, civil, and human rights, technological change, economic change, immigration and migration, and creation of the federal government.
Lecture Topics Include:
Link to YouTube Playlist of Lectures
Lecture Topics Include:
Link to YouTube Playlist of Lectures
- America at European Contact
- New World Settlement: Chesapeake
- New World Settlement: Chesapeake Native American Relations
- New World Settlement: New England
- New World Settlement: New England Native American Relations
- New World Settlement: Middle Colonies
- New World Settlement: Lower Colonies
- The Atlantic Push
- The Westward Push: French and Indian War
- A New American World & Crisis
- The American Revolution
- Who Really Won the Revolution?
- A Democratic Experiment
- Problems in the Early Republic
- Jeffersonian America
- Defending the Republic
- Market Revolution and Reform
- Jacksonian America
- Women in the 19th Century
- Trail of Tears
- The Old South
- Slavery Under Attack
- Slavery and Manifest Destiny
- The Coming of the War
- Reconstruction
- The New South