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Hist20600: Modern Europe, Benjamin Diehl Mar 2023

Hist20600: Modern Europe, Benjamin Diehl

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This syllabus was created for the introductory course to Modern European history offered by City College's Department of History. It was designed by Benjamin Diehl, PhD candidate in History at CUNY Graduate Center as part of City College's OER Initiative. As such, it attempts to provide the outline of a Modern Europe course which is completely free, zero-textbook-cost, using open access resources.


African American History Since Emancipation, Laurie Woodard Jan 2022

African American History Since Emancipation, Laurie Woodard

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This syllabus is designed for a lecture course on Post-Emancipation African American history.


The Era Of The Great War, Barbara Syrrakos Jan 2022

The Era Of The Great War, Barbara Syrrakos

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This is a draft template syllabus for "The Era of the Great War", an upper-level course offered in a department of history. The syllabus provides a core set of readings and links, with plenty of room for the adopter to add or subtract materials, and to craft their own assignments. The course focuses on the wider period of the war, including art and literature, women and war, a peek into two cases from the colonies, a re-visiting of the Arab revolt and Lawrence, and a larger dimension of the mixing of historiography and the value of primary sources, including contemporary …


Modern Europe, Barbara Syrrakos Apr 2021

Modern Europe, Barbara Syrrakos

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Modern Europe Syllabus in History


U.S. Government And Politics In Principle And Practice: Democracy, Rights, Freedoms And Empire, Samuel Finesurrey, Gary Greaves Jan 2021

U.S. Government And Politics In Principle And Practice: Democracy, Rights, Freedoms And Empire, Samuel Finesurrey, Gary Greaves

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This book is written for students early in college to provide a guide to the founding documents and structures of governance that form the United States political system. This book is called American Government and Politics in Principle and Practice because you will notice that what has been inscribed in law has not always been applied in practice-particularly for indigenous peoples, enslaved peoples, people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, those formerly incarcerated, immigrants and the working class within U.S. society. In designing this book, we have two goals. First, we want you to know what the founding documents …


The Historian's Craft, Yaari Felber-Seligman Jan 2021

The Historian's Craft, Yaari Felber-Seligman

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An example of a zero-textbook cost syllabus for Historian's Craft, the history department's introductory course on historical research, writing, and practice.


Animal-Human Vocabulary Builder, Domenick Acocella, Rene Cordero Jan 2021

Animal-Human Vocabulary Builder, Domenick Acocella, Rene Cordero

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The assignment helps students individually build a usable, expanding vocabulary of terms and concepts, enabling each to further contribute to the ongoing, evolving written, oral, and visual conversations centered on the use of and thought about animals for food, clothing, work, entertainment, experimentation, imagery, and companionship.


Hist 101 Early Modern Europe, Tracey L. Billado May 2020

Hist 101 Early Modern Europe, Tracey L. Billado

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This course introduces the major social, intellectual, political, religious, and cultural trends of Europe during the early modern period.


A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The 21st Century, Peter R. Bales Jun 2017

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The 21st Century, Peter R. Bales

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A humorous but entirely factual account of American history from the beginning up to the present.


Bcc His 20 Oer: History Of The Us, Stephen R. Duncan Jan 2017

Bcc His 20 Oer: History Of The Us, Stephen R. Duncan

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This is the syllabus for an open educational resource for a United States History Course, with a link to its primary source documents.


American Pluralism To 1877: A Resource Guide, Christopher Ebert, Brooklyn College Library And Academic It Jan 2015

American Pluralism To 1877: A Resource Guide, Christopher Ebert, Brooklyn College Library And Academic It

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This resource collocates open resources in American History to 1877, and organizes them by theme for all faculty teaching this course. It also provides students with links to books, essays, newspaper and journal databases offered at CUNY. Supplementing this material are images, audio and videos related to the period.

The guide is available at http://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/americanpluralism/

The XML file is available for download above.