Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

WELCOME to HST202 (25141)! Total cost of required course materials = < $13)

• This course utilizes the PCC Distance Learning system, known as D2L (Desire to Learn) Brightspace

• This is a REMOTE class that meets each Wednesday from 10:00 – 11:50 a.m. via ZOOM.

Course Description –  “We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.” – Abraham Lincoln (1864)

In this class we will explore how and why the meanings of liberty and freedom changed between 1840 and 1914?

• What new ideas about liberty and freedom circulated? What new circumstances generated them?
• How did they expand/develop or contract/regress?
• What groups or individuals supported or thwarted them?
• Why did they find fertile ground or face hostility?

Course Content

Examines the social, political, economic, and cultural developments of the United States from 1840 to 1914. Includes the Women's Rights Movement; the U.S.- Mexican War; slavery, abolitionism and the growing sectional crisis between the North and South; Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War; Reconstruction; westward expansion and its negative impact on Native Americans; America's overseas empire (Hawaii, Philippine); and the “Progressive” reform era (culminating in the 19^th Amendment recognizing women’s right to vote). 

Course Learning Outcomes   Course Content and Outcomes Guides (CCOG) at PCC

• Articulate and interpret an understanding of key historical facts and events in the United States from 1840 to 1914.
• Identify the influence of culturally based practices, values, and beliefs to analyze how historically defined meanings of difference affect human behavior.
• Identify and investigate historical theses, evaluate information and its sources, and use appropriate reasoning to construct evidence-based arguments on historical issues.
• Construct a well-organized historical argument using effective, appropriate, and accurate language.

Course Requirements - “A diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” – James Madison

          Total cost of required course materials = < $13

Books (1) required - available at the PCC-Sylvania bookstore

            1) Abraham Lincoln by James McPherson (Oxford University Press, 2009) ISBN-13: 978-0195374520

Also, Give Me Liberty: An American History by Eric Foner Chapters 10 – 18 provided for free in D2L, so you do not have to buy the book