AS NO STUDENT HAS PROVIDED ANYTHING FROM TODAY’S NEWS FOR THIS PAGE OF THE WEBSITE, THE INSTRUCTOR IS DOING SO. (NOTE: ALL MATERIAL ON THE WEBSITE IS PART OF THE COURSE, RELEVANT FOR DISCUSSION, AND APPROPRIATE FOR THE FINAL EXAM.) The Barbary Wars notes that American attacks on Barbary enslavement of… Continue reading
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Question: What can we learn from studying America’s “small wars”? Our focus is not on the military angles–although, of course, such issues and developments are unavoidable when discussing wars and military interventions–but rather on political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, social, technological, communication, etc. ones. Students should look for “threads,” i.e., for ambitions,… Continue reading
*Please submit evaluations as Word documents so that the instructor can type her comments/responses directly into them. (She has removed the pdf form from the website.) *Recall that evaluations which are not correctly submitted will not be accepted, read, returned, or credited. See the SYLLABUS and the EVALUATION itself for explicit… Continue reading
As noted in class, as the instructor was not able to compile a tracking form for the discussion on September 2, there is no posted form. Students should use their memory as they fill in their discussion evaluation. In the future, however, each student should carefully review each tracking form for the… Continue reading
discussion evaluation WEEKLY FORM fall 2016
Maps related to the 1790s (Quasi War with France) have been posted. So too (under Misc. Info) has a list of presidents (and vice presidents). Throughout the course, additional maps (and other materials) will be added to those on the website at the start of the semester. Be sure to… Continue reading
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