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Historian-For-A-Day, Elyse Singer
Historian-For-A-Day, Elyse Singer
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Each student will select a class session in which to present a brief (1-2 minute) "fun fact" based on their own research that relates to the time/place being studied. It should be something that is of interest to you, and (hopefully) to the whole class – cultural, political, sociological, scientific, medical…. For example, for the class on Roman Tragedy, the factoid might be about what a citizen in ancient Roman ate for supper! Originality counts.
Due on date of presentation: A one-paragraph description of the fun fact, in your own words, and cite at least one source--that is not Wikipedia. …
Hist20600: Modern Europe, Benjamin Diehl
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
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
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 …
The African Experience And Heritage In The Caribbean And Brazil Project, Willie Mack
The African Experience And Heritage In The Caribbean And Brazil Project, Willie Mack
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This project will be a culmination of work that the student will do over the course of the semester. The first step is for the student to identify a country that they wish to examine. By the end of the semester, the student will be able describe, in a 5 – 8 page paper, the experience/heritage of Africans and African identity in that country. Alternatives to a paper submission are also accepted with consultation and approval from the instructor.
Modern Europe, Barbara Syrrakos
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
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
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
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.
What Is Jazz?: Exploring The Question, Dominick Tancredi
What Is Jazz?: Exploring The Question, Dominick Tancredi
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This writing assignment begins a semester-long exploration addressing the question “What Is Jazz?” Being introduced by film to two New Orleans jazz musicians, George “Kid Sheik” Colar (1908-1996) and Emanuel “Manny” Sayles (1907-1986), students will get a firsthand perspective of the various levels of commitment to the music these two individuals maintained as working musicians. They dedicated themselves professionally, personally, emotionally, and spiritually. They took inspiration from their life experiences. The films convey the message that jazz goes beyond the notes we hear.
Hist 101 Early Modern Europe, Tracey L. Billado
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.
The Heritage Of Imperialism, Afr 2402 Id, Course Outline, Javiela Evangelista
The Heritage Of Imperialism, Afr 2402 Id, Course Outline, Javiela Evangelista
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This course offers an examination of the thought, structure, operation and results of imperialism in human history generally, and in the 19th/21st centuries in particular. We will use readings and films to examine European/American imperialism in the non-white areas of the world: the role of the Industrial Revolution; the imposition of Western European institutions on indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, North/South America; colonialism; attempts by these people to reestablish autonomous sociological and cultural systems.
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The 21st Century, Peter R. Bales
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
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
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.