US History

Tutor: David Bashore

*Prerequisites: 10th grade and up, completion of Cornerstone Elements of Composition and Literature.

Course Description:

This course will examine our nation’s history from colonial times to the present day, with primary emphasis on the 20th and 21st centuries. Main events of focus include the American Revolution, the Civil War, both World Wars, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement. Through a variety of projects and assignments, students will develop critical thinking and analysis skills that will be important both in college and in society at large. By the end of the course, students will understand the concepts of man’s desire for liberty and desire to rule himself apart from God, the decay of society as a result, and where the idea of the United States both fits in those two concepts and has changed over the course of the last 245 years.