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Welcome to the home page for History 111, Spring 2012. Here students will find the syllabus, readings, and assignments.

This is the web-based home for Thomas Humphrey’s History 313/513: The American Revolution. Here you’ll find all, or at least most, of the materials related to and referred to in the course.

Welcome to History 601: Introduction to Graduate Studies at Cleveland State University.

Here students will find the syllabus, reading list, and assignments for History 312: Colonial American History.

Tom Humphrey wrote a new blog post: Week 8 Questions

1. How did westward expansion change slavery in the United States?
2. How did the labor of enslaved Africans change as planters shifted production from rice and tobacco to cotton?
3. Describe the impact of evangelical religion on enslaved Africans in the first half of the nineteenth century.
4.…

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Tom Humphrey wrote a new blog post: Week Six

Assignment for History 111 for week six:
In lieu of class on Wednesday and Friday, watch the movie “The Patriot” and explain how you think the movie differs from what you have read and discussed about the American Revolution in class. Please type up the assignment and hand it in on Monday, March 6,…

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Tom Humphrey wrote a new blog post: Week 5 questions

1. How did Deborah Sampson Gannett perform her duties? What duties were they, and how do her actions change how we think about warfare in the eighteenth century?
2. How did the American Revolution affect Native Americans? Answer in a couple of sentences.
3. What does the Haitian Revolution…

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Tom Humphrey wrote a new blog post: Questions for Week 4

Questions for Week 4
1. Use Who Built America? to describe in a few sentences how popular protest became rebellion, and why.
2. What bothered colonists about the Stamp Tax and Tea Act?
3. Why was Tom Paine’s Common Sense so successful? And, what did he advocate?
4. How did the British…

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Tom Humphrey wrote a new blog post:

Questions for Week 2
1. Compare Pocahontas’s interactions with Natives to Daniels. How did they differ?
2. What did the Jesuits want?
3. Use Facing East and Black Robe to describe how European trade changed Native Americans’ culture.
4. How did disease change North America?

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Tom Humphrey wrote a new blog post:

Hello Students: In History 400, the Local History Seminar, students will write a longish, primary-source based research paper. In the process, students will learn how to form a thesis, to create a research strategy, to conduct primary and secondary source research, to find and interpret these sources, and to…

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