2:30-3:45P      MW      WH101

Above section open to all students

This course covers the entire range of United States history from
discovery and colonization to the close of the Civil War.  The class
meets for lectures twice a week.  The lectures will generally be
interpretive with just enough narrative to support the explanations of
the American past.  The narrative thread will be carried by a textbook
(Bernard Bailyn, et. al., The Great Republic, Vol. I) which students
will be required to read.  In addition, three other books will be
required:  Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma and The Meaning of
Independence, and John William Ward, Andrew Jackson.  The course will
be divided into three segments with an examination on each segment.
There will be no comprehensive examination.  The examinations will be
essay, based on the lectures, text, required readings, and
discussions, and will be weighted equally in calculating the grade.