COURSE DESCRIPTION - A survey in printed and electronic text (World Wide Web) of American history from European discovery to 1877. Using a multi-media approach, the course will integrate social, political and economic history, focusing on how ordinary people changed history and how history changed ordinary people.

LATENESS/ATTENDANCE - Be on time to class.  Lateness will count as 1/3 of an absence.  You are allowed three un-excused absences.  Excessive absence will result in failure.

READING - Purchase:

ASHP, Who Built America - Volume One: To 1877 (Worth)

ASHP/Friedheim, Freedom's Unfinished Revolution (New Press)

These books are available at the BMCC bookstore and Manhattan Books

WORLD WIDE WEB - We will use resources from the World Wide Web to supplement the reading and classroom discussions. In addition, students will participate in electronic discussions using computer software.  Previous background in computers is not necessary. In class, you will learn the skills necessary to use these resources.

QUIZZES – There will be a ten-question multiple-choice quiz for every reading assignment.  Quizzes, given during the first five minutes of class, will be on the on the assigned reading for that day.  You will get a reading guide for each assignment that will specify the identifications and questions covered by the quiz.  The average of your highest nine quiz grades will count as 20% of your final grade.