Schedule

Week 1. The Origins and Development of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Beg-1800)

Week 2. Africans and the Origins of the North American Colonies (1607-1750)

Week 3. Race in the Northern Colonies (1620-1750)

Week 4. Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution (1750-1788)

Week 5. African Americans in the Early Republic (1788-1820)

Week 6. Slavery and Freedom in Transition (1800-1860)  

Week 7. Midterm Exam/The American Abolitionist Movement (1820-1860)

Week 8. The American Civil War (1861-1865)

Week 9. Reconstruction: The Unfinished Revolution (1865–1877)

Week 10. African Americans in the Late Nineteenth Century (1877-1900)

Week 11. The Struggle to Confront Jim Crow (1880-1920)

Week 12. The Harlem Renaissance (1920-1940)

Week 13. The Black Depression and New Deal

Week 14. World War II

Week 15. The Postwar Civil Rights Movement I: Road to Freedom (1950-1970)

Week 16. The Postwar Civil Rights Movement II: Black Power (1965-1990)

Week 17. The Age of Fracture and Promise (1975-2010)

Week 18. Final Exam

Requirements

Four Quizzes (multiple choice):                                           15%

Midterm Exam (2 in-class, document-based essays):           25%         

Essay Assignment #1 (3-4 pages):                                   15%

Essay Assignment #2 (4-6 pages):                                   20%

Final Exam (2 in-class, document-based essays):                25%

每週課堂教學時數Lecture Hours：2 小時hrs

每週預習／複習時數Preparation Time：3 小時hrs

Four Quizzes (multiple choice):                                           15%

Midterm Exam (2 in-class, document-based essays):           25%         

Essay Assignment #1 (3-4 pages):                                   15%

Essay Assignment #2 (4-6 pages):                                   20%

Final Exam (2 in-class, document-based essays):                25%

Deborah Gray White, Mia Bay, and Waldo E. Martin Jr., Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents (E-book)

https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Mind-Deborah-Gray-White-ebook-dp-B08HY948SD/dp/B08HY948SD/

Additional required articles, excerpts, contemporary news stories, and historical documents will be distributed directly