Global History I: U.S. History

Nation and Nationalism 

From the beginning, the identity and values of the U.S. nation were complex. This course looks closely at the distance between the ideals embedded in our founding documents and the lived realities of people’s lives. Students will investigate the founding and early growth of the nation to understand our modern political and social landscape better. What policies and practices allowed for the nation to expand? How are they upheld, or not, today? Who were the voices for progress, and how did they define that progress? When the U.S. divisively upheld slavery, what communities instead brought us closer to ‘a nation of the people, by the people, for the people’? 

The Age of Reforms

From Sectionalism, including Reconstruction, through the suffrage movement, this course examines the root causes of the political, social, economic, and cultural reform movements in the United States. How successful were those reformers, and how did some of their objectives become part of mainstream political discourse? Using multiple perspectives and sources, students will investigate the people and movements that helped shape the United States and assess the effectiveness of those movements.

• Interests: Law, Politics, Required Course, Social Justice
• Grades: 9th
• Subjects: Global History & Social Sciences