HIST300F: "Race Over Empire"?

Do you buy Love's argument? Or are you selling it?

Other thoughts? Questions? Criticisms?

(Anti-Hawaii Annexation Cartoon, 1897)

HIST300A: TJ's "Notes on the State of Virginia"

Why do you think TJ wrote this?

Other thoughts? Questions? Criticisms?

HIST300F: Post-Adas Lecture Comments

Hey guys--if you have any comments or questions regarding this past week's material and would like to share them with me and the rest of the class, please feel free.

(Walker's Filibuster Army relaxing after combat)

HIST300A: Post-Crosby Lecture Comments

Hey guys--if you have any comments or questions regarding this past week's material and would like to share them with me and the rest of the class, please feel free.

HIST300F: Technological Imperatives and the Wilderness

Hey guys--here are some questions just to get you thinking about this week's reading. You don't necessarily need to respond directly to them, and please, if you have your own questions or thoughts about the reading, feel free to get us started.

What is Adas's core argument? How does he frame American imperialism? (broad questions I know, but it's important for us to understand how Adas interprets the projection of American power)

HIST300A: First Encounters in the New World

Hey guys--Just some questions to think about (you don't necessarily need to respond directly to them; you may also add your own thoughts and questions about the readings).

Crosby: How did New World life forms challenge European understandings of the natural world during the fifteenth century and under what terms (i.e. systems of understanding) were these challenges explored?

Bradford: At the micro-level, what is Bradford's lens for understanding his new environment? How does this lens, for instance, shape his view on the indigenous populations of New England?

Anonymous: According to the author, what are the advantages of growing tobacco in the British colonies by 1775?

HIST300A: Welcome Everyone!

HIST300F: Welcome Everyone!