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Study American History
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award-winning teacher, Mr.
Gentile! Earn up to 1.0 credit.
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This course is a scholarly, rigorous, LDS-oriented,
inspiring, and character-focused exploration of the
history of America: “a land of promise, a land
which is choice above all other lands; a land which
the Lord God hath covenanted” (2 Nephi 1:5). It is
a primary-source-based, 4R (research, reason,
relate, and record)-driven survey of rich topics
from seven major themes in American history:
restored-gospel foundations, American religious
history, American political history, American military history, American cultural history, Native
American history, and African American history.
Each topic is tied to a principle from the Foundation for American Christian Education’s Seven
Principles of America’s Christian History, Government, and Education—as well as to “anchor scriptures” from the Standard Works of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Seeking truth—
“knowledge of things as they are, and as they were,
and as they are to come” (Doctrine and Covenants
93:24)—through the Spirit and coming unto Christ
to “be perfected in him” (Moroni 10:32) encompass every objective of the course.
The order of themes and topics in the course is as follows:
Theme 1: Restored-Gospel Foundations
Our Heritage of American Christian Education: Part I
Our Heritage of American Christian Education: Part II
The Lord’s Hand in Preparing for the Restoration
America as a Promised Land
The Blessings and Responsibilities of Americans
Warnings to Americans
Theme 2: American Religious History
The Pilgrims and William Bradford
The Puritans and John Winthrop
The First Great Awakening and Jonathan Edwards
The Founders and Religion: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
and George Washington
The Second Great Awakening and Joseph Smith
Antebellum Reform Movements and Charles P. McIlvaine
Conservative Religions, Twentieth-Century Liberalism, and
Abortion
Conservative Religions, Gay Liberation, and Dallin H. Oaks
Theme 3: American Political History
Virginia and the House of Burgesses
New England’s Covenant Communities and the Mayflower
Compact
The Patriot Press and Thomas Jefferson’s “A Summary View”
The U. S. Constitution and Thomas Jefferson’s 1787 Letter to
James Madison
Jacksonian America and Alexis de Tocqueville
The Civil War Era and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The New Deal and Franklin D. Roosevelt
The New Right and Ronald Reagan
Theme 4: American Military History
King Philip’s War and John Easton
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and Three Indian Witnesses
The French and Indian War and Two Indian Accounts
The War of American Independence and George Washington’s
1780 Circular Letter
The Mexican-American War and James K. Polk’s 1846 Request to Congress
The American Civil War and Warren Lee Goss on Savage’s
Station
World War I and Poems from the American Field Service’s
Ambulance Drivers
World War II and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1944 Fireside Chat
Theme 5: American Cultural History
The Puritan Family and Three Poems by Anne Bradstreet
The Society of Friends and Robert Barclay’s Explanation of the
“Inner Light”
The Spirit of ’76 and Michel Crevecoeur’s “What Is an American?”
Noah Webster, American Language, and Webster’s Speller
The American Literary Revolution of the Mid-Nineteenth Century and Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier,” the Myth of the American West, and “The Significance of the Frontier in
American History”
The “New Immigration” and Emma Lazarus’s “The New
Colossus”
The Rise of the City, Mass Consumption, and Leisure and
Simon Patten, The Theory of Prosperity
Theme 6: Native American History
Varieties of Native American Life from Moroni to Columbus
and the Grand Council of the Great League of Peace
Cultures Collide and Jean de Brebeuf’s Advice to Jesuit Missionaries in New France
Indian Alliances of the Long Eighteenth Century and Tecumseh’s Speech to the Osage of the Missouri
Native Americans and the Constitution and George Washington’s Third Annual Address
Assimilation and Removal and “Memorial of the Cherokee
Nation”
Reservations and Indian Wars, 1851–1890, and Speeches by
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
Citizenship (1924) and Reorganization (1934) and Report of
John Collier on the State of Indian Affairs (1938)
The Red Power Movement of the 1960s and Early 1970s and
the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968
Theme 7: African American History
The Middle Passage and Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting
Narrative
Varieties of Slave Life in the American South and the Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Slavery, the Constitution, and Debates about the Importation
of Slaves in the State Ratifying Conventions
Antislavery Movements (c. 1830–1865) and William Lloyd
Garrison’s Inaugural Editorial in The Liberator (1831)
The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments and Frederick
Douglass’s Speech to the Thirty-Second Convention of
the American Antislavery Society
Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and Booker T. Washington vs.
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Harlem Renaissance and Four Poems by Langston
Hughes
The “Classic Phase” of the African American Civil Rights
Movement (1954–1965) and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Remarks upon Signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Note: This course may be taken for 1.0 high school credit through
American Heritage School. It fulfills American Heritage School’s
eleventh grade history requirement. Transcript credit may be
transferred to high schools around the nation, or submitted with
applications to colleges and universities worldwide. This course
will be recorded and posted online. By enrolling, you agree that
comments you make in class will be recorded and published.
Disclaimer: Latter-day Learning is sponsored by American Heritage School, an LDSoriented organization; however, neither organization is endorsed by or affiliated with
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The views expressed herein are the
responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.