Welcome aboard! On this site, for your learning pleasure, I'll post all handouts and all major assignments, deadlines, and notices. You'll also find various links and other helpful items here. Please check this page often for updates. PLEASE NOTE: Checking this site at least once a day is a class requirement. Unless noted otherwise, all documents posted below are required reading. If I post it on this page, you're responsible for it.
NEWS:
The final draft of your second paper is due this coming Tuesday 6 December
at the beginning of class. Remember to attach my marked-up copy of your
first draft to it. I'll return the final draft when you turn in your final
exam.
The final exam is in our usual classroom at 9:00 AM on Friday 9 December. The format will be exactly the same as the mid-term. AS NOTED ON OUR SYLLABUS, THE FINAL EXAM IS, REPEAT IS, COMPREHENSIVE, COVERING EVERYTHING BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE COURSE. The only exceptions are the books you read and reported on. The exam will cover McDougall. The exam will cover the movies. I'll arrange one or two review sessions on 7 or 8 December. Start studying now.
Remember to check out the MAP SECTION.
Reading List and Paper Instructions
Map: The Geography of Eastern North America
Link to map: North America at the beginning of the French and Indian War
Major Wars in North America, 1607-1763
The American Revolution, 1763-1775
Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with the North American Colonies
George Washington on recruiting and maintaining an army
A chart of American constitutional government
The U.S. Constitution: National security and foreign affairs provisions
The Federalists and Foreign Policy, 1789-1801
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson on the French Alliance, 1793
Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon on Louisiana
The United States and Continental Expansion, 1789-1850
The following materials are all post-mid-term:
A comparison of the Dred Scott case and Roe v. Wade
Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861
"All we ask is to be let alone": Jefferson Davis's Confederate Constitutional Address, 1861
A military outline of the U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865
A chart of basic Civil War army organization
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, 1865
American Expamsion into the Pacific Rim, 1850-1898
The Filipino Insurrection and its lessons for U.S. Strategy in Iraq
World War I: Trench Warfare, 1914-1918
World War I: Poetry from the Western Front, 1914-1918
The United States and World War I, 1917-1918
The United States and the Coming of World War II
The Pearl Harbor Raid: Background and Pictures (highly recommended but not required)
The United States in World War II, 1941-1945
Article on the Vietnam Conflict
A brief history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East (not required, but supplied for those who are interested)
This completes the posting of handouts!
Assignment Updates
Instructions for writing a paper on Master and Commander
A copy of a sample mid-term exam
Maps for online viewing (download and print if you wish, but I make no promises as to quality)
An overview of World War I, with timeline (from History Department, USMA
World War I: The Western Front (from History Department, USMA)
World War II: European Theater