HIST 2055 Chapter : U S History To 1865 Syallabus LSU Fall 2015 3
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Office hours: tuesdays and thursdays, 9:00-10:30, or by appt. Office hours: monday and wednesday 9:00-10:30, or by appt. Class meets tr 7:30-8:50 am in 16 lockett hall. Course description: this class will introduce students to the history of north america from the mid-sixteenth century until 1865. We will investigate how migrants from europe and africa interacted with each other and with native peoples across the continent. We will then analyze how all these groups came together, in conflict and cooperation, to form new communities and by the late eighteenth century, a new nation. We will look at both the successes of that early national experiment a stable, democratic government and economic growth and the failures economic inequality and racial injustice. Along the way we will try to understand how we came to have these united states, looking at the alternative paths of development that could have been pursued.
