On this page, we have offered syllabi, course readings, chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, key terms, quizzes, essay assignments, and exams to do just that. Individual instructors, of course, should always govern their own curriculum and be able to determine their own pedagogy. Rather than attempting to build a common curriculum, these resources are designed merely as a starting point. Like our text, they are licensed openly (CC-BY-SA): you are encouraged to use them, download them, distribute them, and modify them as you see fit. Moreover, The American Yawp is, as always, an evolving, collaborative project. We welcome the submission of additional teaching materials and feedback on existing material. If you have any ideas or resources you’d like to share, please contact the editors (Ben Wright for the first half, and Joseph Locke for the second) directly.

This course teaches critical thinking, reading, and writing skills across the curriculum through the amalgamation of History 1302 (1865-present) with Integrated Reading and Writing (INRW 0315), emphasizing the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of the United States from the Civil War/Reconstruction era to the present. The developmental INRW 0315 corequisite course focuses on applying critical reading skills for organizing, analyzing, and developing written work appropriate to the audience, purpose, situation, and length of the assignment in the historical context of HIST 1302.