Robert Kennedy's United States History Class
United State History 1301
Colonial to the Civil War
Formative Years
1600s-1770s
“History is a nightmare, from which I am trying to wake”
– James Joyce
Revolutionary Years
1760s-1800
“Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.”
--Joseph J. Ellis
Birth of a Nation
1800s-1830s
"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."
--Alexander Hamilton
All material use by permission from:
Keith Hughs, "Hip Hughs YouTube Channel", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1qzb2b92sA HipHughes History (accessed Oct. 20, 2014).
"Office of the Historian." Office of the Historian. Accessed December 1, 2014.https://history.state.gov/.
Tom Richey, "Tom Richey: Learning, Delivered YouTube Channel", https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJcjFtDGPBZ3SQGL-0WxFcg, (accessed Nov. 30, 2015).
Robert Sean Kennedy, "Lecture Notes", https://www.skennedyushistory.com/, United States History Course Website at South Texas College (accessed Oct. 20, 2014).
Wikibooks contributors, "US History," Wikibooks, The Free Textbook Project,http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=US_History&oldid=2690799 (accessed Oct. 20, 2014).