The Queer, Colorful, Feminist, Immigrant History of the United States (Part 2)

PART 2 of 2: This U.S. history class focuses on primary sources and personalities who shaped the United States, with an emphasis on women, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color.

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Let's decolonize U.S. history together

When I started homeschooling, I couldn’t find U.S. history curriculum that told the stories I wanted my kids to hear—stories that weren’t the whitewashed stories of American mythology but the stories of people (men, women, and nonbinary) who made space for themselves on the margins of history. Some of their stories are happy, some are sad, most are both, but these are the people I wanted my high schooler to get to know during our U.S. history studies. Since that curriculum didn’t exist, I made it!

This self-paced U.S. History class includes 11 lessons, a midterm exam, and a final exam, and is designed to be taken over one semester — though you could certainly stretch it to a full year if you got excited about digging deeper.

Recommended credits: 0.5

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Course curriculum

1. Getting Started/How to Use This Platform
2. REQUIRED MATERIALS
3. Class Description
4. A Note About Grades and Grading Your Work
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: How the United States Stole Hawai'i
3. READING: 12A Queen Liliuokalani and the Annexation of Hawai’i
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Connection Question
6. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline Cards
1. Tips for Writing Your DBQ Essay
2. Grading Your DBQ Essay
3. ASSIGNMENT: DBQ Essay
4. LECTURE: U.S. History Since 1900
5. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. ASSIGNMENT: Biography Project
2. Tips for Doing Historical Research
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: Prohibition? Blame the Women
3. READING: 15A Mabel Walker Willebrandt and Prohibition
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Connection Question
6. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline Cards
1. A Note about Midterms (and Tips for Grading Yours)
2. EXAM: Midterm
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: Japanese-Americans and World War II Internment Camps
3. READING: 16A Fred Korematsu and Japanese Internment
4. READING: Primary Source Readings
5. ASSIGNMENT: Connection Question
6. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
3. READING: 17A Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Connection Question
6. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. LESSON MATERIALS
2. LECTURE: We Should Call It the Stonewall Uprising
3. READING: 18A Marsha Johnson and the Stonewall Uprising
4. READING: Primary Sources
5. ASSIGNMENT: Connection Question
6. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline
1. ASSIGNMENT: DBQ Essay
2. Tips for Writing Your DBQ Essay
3. Grading Your DBQ Essay
1. ASSIGNMENT: Local History Project
1. Write Your Own Chapter of History: Standing Rock
2. ASSIGNMENT: Timeline Cards Check
1. How Do You Know How You Did in This Class?

About this course

$10.00 first payment, $20.00 / week onwards
50 lessons
2 hours of video content

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