United States History II
HIST.1302.9004 (12053) & .9011 (12062)
[3 Credit Hours]
Spring, 2025
Jan. 13–March 5 (8W1)
Meeting Place and Time: Online/D2L
Access the online/D2L course at https://d2l.lonestar.edu/d2l/loginh/.
Course Description
A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of the United States from the Civil War/Reconstruction era to the present. United States History II examines industrialization, immigration, world wars, the Great Depression, Cold War and post-Cold War eras. Themes that may be addressed in United States History II include: American culture, religion, civil and human rights, technological change, economic change, immigration and migration, urbanization and suburbanization, the expansion of the federal government, and the study of U.S. foreign policy.
Prerequisites
College Level Readiness in Reading AND Writing.
Learning Outcomes
- Create an argument through the use of historical evidence;
- Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources;
- Analyze the effects of historical, social, political, economic, cultural, and global forces on this period of United States history.
Textbooks
In an effort to reduce student costs, I use as our core textbook the freely available online U.S. History textbook through Rice University’s OpenStax initiative. You can read the U.S. History text online, in your browser, or else download PDF or EPUB versions for tablets and smartphones.
OpenStax U.S. History
Edited by P. Scott Corbett, et al.
(Available FREE, ONLINE in multiple formats: browser, PDF, EPUB)
ISBN-13: 978-1947172081
Additional Materials
I will also assign several films, videos, and podcasts, in part or in whole. Most of these will be available to stream inside the D2L version of the course, including through the LSC library’s subscription services, such as Kanopy or Swank Digital Campus.