Learning materials
Hine, Faragher, and Coleman provides the shared chronological narrative. Each week pairs that reading with primary-source collections, maps, archive portals, and a recent scholarly lens. The textbook is assigned but is not evaluated as a separate graded component.
Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher, and Jon T. Coleman · 2nd edition · Yale University Press, 2017
Paperback ISBN 978-0-300-18517-1 · eBook ISBN 978-0-300-23178-6
Required chronological and narrative spine; assigned weekly but not evaluated as a separate graded component.
Introduction, “Dreams and Homelands,” and Chapter 1, “A New World Begins”
Chapter 2, “Contest of Cultures”
Chapter 3, “The Struggle of Empires”
Chapter 4, “The Land and Its Markers”
Chapter 5, “Finding Purchase”
Chapter 6, “War and Destiny”
Chapter 7, “Machine,” first installment (Canvas provides the stop point)
Chapter 7, “Machine,” second installment
Chapter 8, “A Search for Community”
Chapter 9, “The Urban Frontier”
Chapter 10, “New Frontiers”
Chapter 11, “As the West Goes,” first installment (Canvas provides the stop point)
Chapter 11, “As the West Goes,” second installment
No new textbook reading—Thanksgiving Break
Chapter 12, “It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At”
Interpretive lenses
Reserve selections complicate or revise the core narrative. Exact excerpt spans remain edition- and access-dependent.
Ned Blackhawk
Pekka Hämäläinen
Anne F. Hyde
Kevin Waite
Sarah Keyes
Elliott West
Manu Karuka
Katrina Phillips
Monica Muñoz Martinez
Sarah Deutsch
Megan Kate Nelson
Students should use the edition and excerpt linked in Canvas. Do not substitute an unverified online copy.