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  HIS 121 United States History I (3 CR)
Surveys United States history from its beginning to the present. HIS121 covers America from the 1500s to 1865 and HIS 122 continues the course to the 1990s. Courses may be taken out of sequence.

As this is an online course, students learn from reading the assigned books and from the course website.  The website includes lecture summaries, documents, essays, and study guides to assist students with each homework assignment and test.  There are optional on-campus Saturday review sessions before each test.

Students are required to complete homework assignments, participate in virtual class discussions via Blackboard, and take tests on campus or at another proctored setting.  Students may elect to watch a videotape series, A Biography of America, as an instructional supplement.  Video notes may be substituted for one homework assignment at full credit.

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INSTRUCTOR


Dr. David C. Hanson
Professor of History

CONTACT
E-mail: dhanson@vw.vccs.edu
Work phone: 857-7942
Office: Brown 105
Mailing Address
VWCC
Social Science Division
P.O. Box 14007
Roanoke, VA 24038
TEXTBOOK INFORMATION

After the Fact, with Primary Source Investigator CD: The Art of Historical Detection

Authors: James West Davidson, Historian
Mark H Lytle, Bard College

ISBN: 0072994010
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Inventing America 2e

Inventing America
Edition: Second  
Authors: Pauline Maier,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Merritt Roe Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexander Keyssar, Harvard University
Daniel J. Kevles, Yale University
ISBN:
0-393-168921
Publisher: W.W. Norton
or
E-book 0393168913