Academic Salon
Courses Offered by Professor Whitaker
Courses are linked to a sample PDF syllabus
- HST 110: United States History Since 1865
- HST 204: The Vietnam Experience
- HST 333/AAAS 363: African American History to 1865
- HST 498: Playing for Keeps: Sports, Inequality and the “American Dream”
- HST 598: Race, Ethnicity and Nation
- HST 598: Privilege, Power and Protest in 20th Century North America
- HST 300: Urban Rebellion
- HST 306: The Civil Rights Movement
- HST 334: African American History Since 1865
Bibliographies
United States History
Primary Sources
- Magna Carta (1215)
- The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
- Articles of Confederation (March 1, 1787)
- Constitution of the United States (1791)
- Bill of Rights (Amendments # 1 - 10)
- Amendments to the Constitution (Amendments # 11 - 27)
- Reconstruction Amendments (1865 - 1870)
- The Naturalization Act (1795)
- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
- Worcester v. Georgia (1831)
- Declaration of Rights, Women's Rights Convention (1848)
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- Fugitive Slave Act (1851)
- Dred Scott Decision (1857)
- The Morrill Act (1862)
- The Homestead Act (1862)
- Civil Rights Act (1875)
- Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
- Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
- Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
- Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904)
- Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
- Indian Citizenship Act (1924)
- Gong Lum v. Rice (1927)
- Atlantic Charter (1941)
- Executive Order 8802, Ban on Discrmination (1941)
- Executive Order 9066 (1942)
- Korematsu v. United States (1944)
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Negro Family: The Case for National Action (The Moynihan Report)
- Loving v. Virginia (1967)
- Roe v. Wade (1973)
- Morgan v. Hennigan, The Boston Bussing Case, (1974)
- The Republican Party’s Contract with America (1994)
- U.S. Civil Rights Commission Report on Voting Irregularities in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida
African American History
Primary Sources
- Fugitive Slave Act (1851)
- Dred Scott Decision (1857)
- Reconstruction Amendments (1865 - 1870)
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Guinn v. United States, Striking Down the "Grandfather Clause" (1915)
- Gong Lum v. Rice (1927)
- Executive Order 8802 on Discrimination (1941)
- Executive Order 9981, Desegregating the Armed Forces (1948)
- McLaurin v. Oklahoma (1950)
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Negro Family: The Case for National Action (The Moynihan Report)
- Executive Order 11246 (1965)
- Loving v. Virginia (1967)
- Morgan v. Hennigan, The Boston Bussing Case, (1974)
- The Republican Party’s Contract with America (1994)
- U.S. Civil Rights Commission Report on Voting Irregularities in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida