ILC U.S. History - Full Year

The ILC U.S. History - Full Year materials are designed as a full-year course. Semester 1 and Semester 2 will be available separately for download. The course materials utilize content from U.S. History by OpenStax, as well as original developer content. The course covers the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States by utilizing political, economic, diplomatic and societal/cultural lenses. It includes eyewitness accounts, lived experiences, primary and secondary sources; and utilizes historical thinking skills, such as comparison, continuity and change over time, causation and contextualization. The course covers key forces that form the American experience with particular attention to issues of race, class and gender. Although the Course is structured chronologically, there are themes included. Themes include immigration, civic virtue, reforming society and foreign affairs/imperialism.