HIST 101 Y1 • United States History to 1877

Fall 2026 Lecture Calendar

Tuesday & Thursday • 8:30-9:45 a.m. • W243 • Two approximately 35-minute instructional blocks per class meeting

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Exam 1Thursday, October 1
Chapters 2-6
Exam 2Tuesday, November 10
Chapters 7, 9-12
Final Exam / Exam 3Tuesday, December 8, 8:00-9:50 a.m.
Chapters 13-14 + Civil War

Calendar note: Chapter 8 is not assigned. Lecture numbers identify the current classroom sequence; special workshops and exam days are shown separately. Canvas remains the official source for assignment deadlines and any schedule changes.

August 2026

Opening week and Chapters 2-3
DateBlock 1Block 2Notes
Tue, Aug. 18
✓ Completed		Introduction
Course Introduction & Syllabus Overview
Historiography
Lecture 1: What Is History?
First class meeting
Thu, Aug. 20
✓ Completed		Historiography
Lecture 2: What Makes History Happen?
Historiography
Lecture 3: Why Do Historians Disagree?
Three-lecture historiography sequence completed
Tue, Aug. 25
✓ Completed		Chapter 2
Ch 2 · Lecture 1 · Why Colonize?
Chapter 2
Ch 2 · Lecture 2 · Why Did the Colonies Become Different?
Colonization in North America, 1600-1680
Thu, Aug. 27
✓ Completed		Chapter 2
Ch 2 · Lecture 3 · Building a Puritan Society
Chapter 2
Ch 2 · Lecture 4 · Who Controlled America?
Chapter 2 classroom sequence completed

September 2026

Chapters 3-6 and Exam 1 preparation
DateBlock 1Block 2Notes
Tue, Sept. 1
✓ Completed		Chapter 3
Ch 3 · Lecture 1 · The War That Made Colonists Savage
Chapter 3
Ch 3 · Lecture 2 · Now the God of the Spaniards Is Dead
Empires, Indians, and the Struggle for Power
Thu, Sept. 3
✓ Completed		Chapter 3
Ch 3 · Lecture 3 · The Devil in the Shape of an Indian
Chapter 3
Ch 3 · Lecture 4 · The Captives Who Wouldn't Come Home
Locked calendar revision
Tue, Sept. 8
✓ Completed		Film
Downward Spiral
Chapter 4
Ch 4 · Lecture 1 · The Town Called Mose
Locked calendar revision
Thu, Sept. 10
✓ Completed		Video Documentary
George Washington's First War
Entire class period
Tue, Sept. 15
✓ Completed		Chapter 4
Ch 4 · Lecture 4 · Britain Wins a Continent, 1758–1763
Chapter 5
Ch 5 · Lecture 1 · Can Britain Govern What It Won?
Transition from imperial victory to imperial crisis
Thu, Sept. 17
✓ Completed		Chapter 5
Ch 5 · Lecture 2 · How Do You Defeat a Law Without Holding Office?
Chapter 5
Ch 5 · Lecture 3 · Who Gets to Use the Word Liberty?
Reform, Resistance, Revolution, 1763-1776
Tue, Sept. 22
✓ Completed		Chapter 5
Ch 5 · Lecture 3 · Who Gets to Use the Word Liberty?
Chapter 5
Lecture: Common Sense
Remaining 15 minutes: screened Liberty!, Episode 4. In retrospect, this was not the best choice; material preparing students for the Declaration of Independence would have been more effective.
Thu, Sept. 24
✓ Completed		Chapter 5
Lecture: The Sacred Career of the Declaration of Independence
Chapter 6
If time permits: Ch 6 · Lecture 1 · Britain Kept Winning. Why Did the Revolution Not End?
Planned schedule; Chapter 6 begins only if time remains.
Tue, Sept. 29
✓ Completed		Chapter 6
Ch 6 · Lecture 4 · What Could Destroy the Republic: Too Much Power or Too Little?
Workshop
Constitutional Design Workshop
Locked calendar revision; no separate Exam 1 review day

October 2026

Exam 1 and Chapters 7, 9-11
DateBlock 1Block 2Notes
Thu, Oct. 1
✓ Completed		LECTURE EXAM 1 - Chapters 2-6Full class period
Tue, Oct. 6
✓ Completed		Chapter 7
Ch 7 · Lecture 1 · The Constitution Had No Instruction Manual
Chapter 7
Ch 7 · Lecture 2 · What Kind of Republic Did the Revolution Create?
Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815
Thu, Oct. 8
✓ Completed		Chapter 7
Ch 7 · Lecture 3 · Can a Republic Have an Empire?
Chapter 7
Ch 7 · Lecture 4 · Why Did a Republic That Feared War Choose War?
Chapter 7 classroom sequence completed
Tue, Oct. 13
✓ Completed		Chapter 9
Ch 9 · Lecture 1 · Slavery and Capitalism
Chapter 9
Ch 9 · Lecture 2 · Slave Religion in the Antebellum South
Chapter 8 intentionally omitted
Thu, Oct. 15
✓ Completed		Chapter 9
Chapter 9 Wrap-Up
Video Documentary
If time permits: Slavery in America: Seeds of Destruction
The Old South, 1790-1850
Tue, Oct. 20
✓ Completed		Chapter 10
Ch 10 · Lecture 1 · Democratization of Culture
Video Documentary
God in America, Episode 2: "A New Eden"
FA26: I showed the video in lieu of Chapter 10 Lecture 2 (Faith in Action: the Second Great Awakening)
Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850
Thu, Oct. 22
✓ Completed		Chapter 10
Ch 10 · Lecture 3 · The Rise of the Middle Class
Chapter 10
Ch 10 · Lecture 4 · Staging America
Chapter 10 classroom sequence completed
Tue, Oct. 27
✓ Completed		Chapter 11
Ch 11 · Lecture 1 · Post-War of 1812 Political Events
Video Documentary
Andrew Jackson: A Man for the People
Whigs and Democrats, 1815-1840
Thu, Oct. 29Chapter 11
Ch 11 · Lecture 2 · Jacksonian Democracy & the Social World
Workshop
Begin Ethnic Cleansing Project
Capstone continues into Chapter 12

November 2026

Chapter 12, Exam 2, and the road to Civil War
DateBlock 1Block 2Notes
Tue, Nov. 3Chapter 12
Ch 12 · Lecture 1 · Civil Society and the Moral Republic
Chapter 12
Ch 12 · Lecture 2 · Moral Laboratories: Prisons, Asylums, and Schools
Antebellum Reform, 1820-1860
Thu, Nov. 5
✓ Completed		Chapter 12
Ch 12 · Lecture 3 · Temperance & Prohibition
Chapter 12
Ch 12 · Lecture 4 · The Children's Rights Movement
Exam 2 unit completed
Tue, Nov. 10LECTURE EXAM 2 - Chapters 7, 9-12Full class period
Thu, Nov. 12Chapter 13
Ch 13 · Lecture 1 · Manifest Destiny: Continental Transformation
Chapter 13
Ch 13 · Lecture 2 · Picturing Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty-or Slavery?
Tue, Nov. 17Chapter 13
Ch 13 · Lecture 3 · Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom's Cabin
Chapter 13
Lecture 4
Chapter 13 classroom sequence completed
Thu, Nov. 19Chapter 14
Lecture 1
Chapter 14
Lecture 2
The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860
Tue, Nov. 24Chapter 14
Lecture 3
Chapter 14
Lecture 4
Last class meeting before Thanksgiving break
Thu, Nov. 26NO CLASS - Thanksgiving / College ClosedFall Break

December 2026

Civil War and course conclusion
DateBlock 1Block 2Notes
Tue, Dec. 1Civil War
Lecture 1
Civil War
Lecture 2
OpenStax Chapter 15
Thu, Dec. 3Civil War
Lecture 3
Civil War
Lecture 4 + Course Synthesis
Last regular class meeting

Final Exam / Lecture Exam 3

Tuesday, December 8, 2026 • 8:00-9:50 a.m.
Covers Chapters 13-14 and the Civil War.