John Hollitz, Thinking Through the Past: A Critical-Thinking Approach to U.S. History. (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005), Volume II: Since 1865. ISBN: 0-618-41679-X

James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Touchstone, 1996) ISBN: 0684818868

Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (HarperCollins, 2003). ISBN: 0060528370

W 1/5

Loewen, Intro: Something Has Gone Very Wrong and ch. 1 – Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-making (1 LTD guide)

F 1/7

The class will meet in the Bldg. 98-C5-9 computer lab for help with Internet use and assignments. Note change - office hours will be in 94-333 from 9:30 - 10:50 AM.

M 1/10

Loewen, ch. 2 – 1493: The True Importance of Christopher Columbus

Zinn, ch. 1 - Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress

W 1/12

Loewen, ch. 3: The Truth about the First Thanksgiving

F 1/14

Loewen, ch. 5 – “Gone with the Wind”: The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks

Zinn, ch. 9 – Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation without Freedom

M 1/17

Campus Closed – Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday Observed

W 1/19

Loewen, ch. 6 – John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: The Invisibility of Antiracism in American History Textbooks

F 1/21

Hollitz, ch. 1 – Historians and Textbooks: The “Story” of Reconstruction

M 1/24

Woman’s Suffrage – Internet Readings – 1 LTD

W 1/26

Hollitz, ch. 2 – Using Primary Sources: Industrialization and the Condition of Labor

Zinn, ch. 10 – The Other Civil War

ch. 11 – Robber Barons and Rebels

Ch. 13 – The Socialist Challenge

F 1/28

Loewen, ch. 7 – The Land of Opportunity

M 1/31

Hollitz, ch. 3 – Evaluating Primary Sources: “Saving” the Indians in the late 19th Century

Zinn, ch. 8 – We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God