Required Material

CDS reserves the right to make changes to the required material list as received by the instructor before the course starts.  Please refer to the Campus Bookstore website at http://www.campusbookstore.com/Textbooks/SearchEngine/  to obtain the most up-to-date list of required materials for this course before purchasing them. 

Course Notes

Students will obtain their lesson notes, assignments and any supplementary materials from the course Moodle site beginning the first day of term.

Required Textbook

Available from the Queen's Campus Bookstore.

• Grant, Susan-Mary, A Concise History of the United States of America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
• The Kingdom of Matthias by Paul E. Johnson, Sean Wilentz
• Southern Horrors and Other Writings by Royster, Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Penguin Classic Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Confessions of Nat turner & Related Documents 1e96pb Bedford by Greenberg
• The Cherokee Removal by Theda Perdue
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The course will also include other special readings, films, documents and assignments to enrich your experience and engage you the subject matter. Such extra materials are listed in the unit descriptions.