American History
Date and Time: Mondays, 12:50 - 3:00pm Cost: $95/month for 9 months, due at the first of each month (Aug. 1st through April 1st) plus a one time $25 supply fee. Payments should be made to Lucid Education, and payments can be made online at https://derekowens.com/paynow1.php. 10% off for semester or full year payment in advance. Course Description: This year-long course covers American history from the time of Christopher Columbus through the early 21st Century. Promotional Video: American History Trailer (5 min) The course will focus on five major topics. The first Topic examines America’s “Formative Years,” including Discovery and the Early Colonial Period Through 1676. Topic II will examine The Birth of the United States of America, The War for American Independence and the Change from Confederation to Republic, 1676-1824. The third major topic covers America as A House Divided, Sectionalism and the Civil War, 1824-1865. Following the preservation of the Union, Topic IV looks at how The United States Became a World Power, the Growth of America During the Industrial Revolution, the Progressive Revolution, and the Great War, from 1865-1919. Finally, the last topic concludes the course by examining The United States through the end of the 20th Century, as the Republic Overcame all Challenges: 1919-2000. A special feature of this course is the use of primary source documents, as well as other scholarly writings, with respect to the topic being studied in lieu of a textbook. A few examples of the primary sources we will examine are: Christopher Columbus, William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, Alexis de Tocqueville, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Samuel Eliot Morison, Whittaker Chambers, C.S. Lewis, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ronald Reagan. |
