HIS 309 - Fall Semester 2011

Monday -Wednesday - Friday Schedule

W - Aug 24	Introduction to Course, Syllabus, and Website
F - Aug 26	Ancestral Africa	Chapter 1
M - Aug 29	Ancestral Africa (cont’d.)
W – Aug 31	Africans in the Atlantic World	Chapter 2
F – Sept 2	Establishing North American Slavery	Chapter 3
W - Sept 7	The Slave Trade and the New World
F - Sept 9	Eighteenth Century Slave Societies	Chapter 4
M - Sept 12	Give Me Liberty	Chapter 5
W - Sept 14	Building Communities in the Early Republic	Chapter 6
F - Sept 16	Southern Slavery	Chapter 7
M - Sept 19	Southern Slavery (cont’d.)
W - Sept 21	Southern Slavery (cont’d.)
F - Sept 23	Antebellum Free Blacks	Chapter 8
M - Sept 26	discussion of Celia: A Slave
W - Sept 28	Abolitionism in Black and White	Chapter 9
M - Oct 3	First Exam
W - Oct 5	Civil War	Chapter 10
F - Oct 7	Civil War	Chapter 10
M - Oct 10	Civil War: Nothing but Freedom
W - Oct 12	Promises and Pitfalls of Reconstruction	Chapter 11
F - Oct 14	The Color Line	Chapter 12
M - Oct 17	The Color Line (cont'd)
W - Oct 19	The Era of Self-Help	Chapter 13
F - Oct 21	discussion of The Souls of Black Folk
M - Oct 24	In Pursuit of Democracy	Chapter 14
W - Oct 26	The Great Migration
M – Oct 31	Voices of Protest	Chapter 15
W - Nov 2	discussion of Race Riot: Chicago and the Red Summer of 1919
F - Nov 4	Second Exam
M - Nov 7	The Arts at Home and Abroad	Chapter 16
W - Nov 9	The Harlem Renaissance
F - Nov 11	The New Deal	Chapter 17
M - Nov 14	Mythologies of Racial Purity
W - Nov 16	Double V for Victory	Chapter 18
F - Nov 18	American Dilemmas	Chapter 19
M - Nov 21	We Shall Overcome	Chapter 20
M - Nov 28	We Shall Overcome (cont’d.)
W - Nov 30	discussion of Praying for Sheetrock
F – Dec 2	Black Power	Chapter 21
M - Dec 5	Progress and Poverty	Chapter 22
W - Dec 7	Perspectives on the Present	Chapter 23
R - Dec 8	Term Study Day
M - Dec 12	FINAL EXAM (8:00 - 10:00 a.m.)

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