American Revolution Online
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American Revolution Online |
HST 684: The American Revolution: The Use and Understanding of Sources
An Internet Course on Documents of
the American Revolution and Founding Era
Spring 2002
This course is part of SMSU Online.
The course has two websites. You will need to use both. The other site, HST 684:
American Revolution On Blackboard, can best be accessed after you login on SMSU
Online. Use the
following link to login on SMSU Online Blackboard:
SMSU
Online Blackboard Entry Page
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The Two Websites for the Course: |
| HST 684: American Revolution Online | HST 684: American Revolution On Blackboard |
| http://history.smsu.edu/FTMiller/ AmRev/amrevonline.htm |
To access the site, login on SMSU Online
Blackboard: http://eschool.smsu.edu/ |
| This is a public website on the internet. | This is a restricted site. It is open only to members of the class. |
| Use this site for the syllabus, dates, assignments, documents that will be read during the course, web-bibliography, virtual debates, and the mini-lectures | Use this site for the course chat room and virtual class discussions |
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Grade Book |
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Students will receive through email instructions on how to access their grade book page |
Submit all written assignments through e-mail to: ftm922f@smsu.edu |
This internet course will explore the historical sources available on the internet in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries pertaining to American history. It will be a study of the documents of the American Revolution and the Founding era. The readings will include Thomas Jefferson's Summary View, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and Alexander Hamilton's, James Madison's, and John Jay's The Federalist. Each week of the course, there will be an online discussion on the readings. There will be online debates on whether the colonies should separate from the British empire and on whether the Constitution should be ratified. Also, each student will prepare a Web-Bibliography of internet links on a topic relating to the American Revolution and the Early American Republic.
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HELP |
If you have a question about the course or about this, the American Revolution Online website, please email the instructor at: ftm922f@smsu.edu |
| If you have a question about SMSU Online or a tech question about accessing or using the SMSU Online Blackboard site, then contact the SMSU Online Help Desk: Phone 417-836-6111 or 888-767-8444; or e-mail smsuonlinehd@smsu.edu |
Website created and maintained by F. Thornton Miller. Site last updated May 14, 2002
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Site online October 11, 2001