1/22 Book Discussion Group

“Founding Myths”

2/4 Module 3: Revolution and the New Nation

Lead Scholar:
Chad Montrie

Handouts
Bill of Rights (pdf)
Constitution (pdf)
Timeline (pdf)
Module 3 (pdf)
Federalist #28 (pdf)
Federalist #49 (pdf)
Federalist #62 (pdf)
Federalist #85 (pdf)

The U.S. Constitution: Content and Context;

Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay

2/25 Module 10: Contemporary United States

Lead Scholar:
Bob Forrant

Handouts
Unmade In America (pdf)
Seattle Message (pdf)
Globalization (pdf)

Jeffrey Sachs
Joseph Stiglitz
Jack Welch

3/3 Module 6:
 Development of the Industrial United States

Lead Scholar:
Bob Forrant
Inventing America (pdf)

Science, Social Ideas and the Arts;
Society of the Gilded Age;

Andrew Carnegie
Jacob Riis
Lewis Hine
Jane Adams

3/11 Module 10: Contemporary United States

Lead Scholar:
Dean Bergeron
Handout 1 (pdf)
Handout 2 (pdf)

Conflicts and Foreign Policy: Vietnam, Arab and Israeli Wars; Iraq and the War on Terror

4/8 Module 5: Civil War and Reconstruction

Lead Scholar:
Sean Condon
Guide (pdf)
Who Freed Slaves (pdf)
Moralists (pdf)
Document 15-1 (pdf)
Douglas (pdf)
An Age of Reform (pdf)

Antebellum America;
Course and Character of the Civil War

4/15 Module 4: Expansion and Reform

Lead Scholar:
Christoph Strobel
Guide (pdf)
Hagan (pdf)
Pontiac (pdf)
Brown (pdf)
Berkhofer (pdf)

Thomas Jefferson Tecumseh
Black Hoof
Andrew Jackson
Henry Davis
Sitting Bull
Charles Eastman

4/29 Research  & Information Technology

Lead Scholar:
John Wren