ABOVE CLASS OPEN TO FRESHMEN, SOPHOMORES, AND
JUNIORS ONLY
Need study skills help?  Then contact the Student Academic Center
(855-7313) for on-line authorization for EDUC-X101 (Learning
Strategies for History, two additional credits) that will be offered
2:30 MW or 4:00 MW.

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln asked the mourners at the “hallowed ground”
of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to carry on the nation's "unfinished
work."  Lincoln was talking about more than the incomplete Civil
War;  he was describing a larger experiment, begun nearly a century
earlier, to establish liberty in a new nation.

This is a course about that experiment.  How have Americans
responded to Lincoln's charge?  Will their work ever be finished?
What can we learn about their efforts from from looking at the
landscape of farms, towns, cities, and suburbs that surrounds us?
To answer these questions, we examine key moments in Americans’
ongoing struggle for life, liberty, and happiness—a struggle that
recommenced in 1865 and continues, in our own lives, today.

In this course you will master the outline of modern US history,
learning from textbook, primary documents, literature, sound, and
images.  You will develop your research and writing skills, and you
will document the history of some unsung heroes:  your own family.
Average reading:  c. 50 pages per week;  writing, 12-15 pages
total.  Attendance in lectures and discussion section is required.