Introduction

Welcome to the exciting world of American History I!!! This course will take you through the life of the United States from post-Civil War America to World War II. This class is not about memorizing dates and names, so if you like to do this, I am sorry. What you will learn in this class is that American History is about people, and the relationships between different people. So rather than force feeding you countless dates, and names of dead people, we will be discovering how different people interacted, and what the results of these interactions were. This is not to say that you will not be required to learn some dates, and names of people and their significance, because we will. But the focus of the course will be interactions, their causes, and their consequences.