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Required Text:
Brinkley, Alan, The Unfinished
Nation,
Vol. I, 5E (McGraw-Hill, 2008).
Instructor:
Dr. Joseph Sgarlata, (315) 342-0602,
Office Rm. 161. Send e-mail to jsgarat1@twcny.rr.com
or just click on the e-mail address shown here
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Class Meetings:
Tuesday & Thursday,2-3:20pm, Room 156
Office Hours:
Tuesday & Thursday at 12:00-12:30 or by appointment.
Course
Description:
This is an introductory survey course in what is often called the "first half" of American History.
This includes discovery, colonization, the American Revolution, formation of a new nation,
establishment of the Constitution, foreign and domestic affairs, Westward Expansion, Sectionalism and the Civil War.
It is the story of the emergence of a new nation whose fundamental principles of equality and participatory government changed
humankind. It is a story of cataclysm, chronicling how the republic nearly splintered in its attempt to secure the liberties promised by
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