Week 1: Course Introduction
Hello students and fellow travelers on the path(s) through U.S. history! This blog serves as a crucial companion to our weekly class time. Discussions will include further explorations into the assigned readings, suggested related websites and links, and questions about assignments and/or historical issues related to our course. It is also a tool for you to share questions and thoughts with each other.
A couple of brief ground rules:
This blog is meant for academic discussions directly related to the course only! No private information or inappropriate discussions please.
Discussions should be respectful, cooperative, and articulate. By all means, feel free to use this blog to debate but remember to do so with respect and keep in mind that you're all on the same journey and will be working together in class as well.
History is as much a synthesis of analytical frameworks and scholarly debates as “just the facts.” Thus, throughout this course we will tackle historical topics as historians frequently do—through spirited conversation.
As a way to kick off this conversation, I invite you watch this brief video which claims to reveal the history of the world in 7 minutes:
World History for Us All - History of the World in Seven Minutes Video
My question: is this history?
I look forward to your comments, questions, and discussions!
In my opinion this is history but in a heavily digested form. History has so many variations and twists and turns it is nearly impossible to be able to fit the history of the globe in a matter of seven minutes so much is left out and only the very main points are touched and for that matter even those main points are not given the due respect.
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