| Week | OER spine | Primary-source portal | Scholarship lens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Yawp introduction and relevant map materials | Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893), excerpt Library of Congress Primary Source Analysis Tool | Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America (2023), introduction or library-reserve excerpt. |
| 2 | American Yawp, chapters 2–4 selected sections | Native Knowledge 360° teaching resources Library of Congress Indigenous Peoples of the Americas collections | Pekka Hämäläinen, Indigenous Continent (2022), selected excerpt; Anne F. Hyde, Born of Lakes and Plains (2022), selected excerpt. |
| 3 | American Yawp, chapter 7 selected sections | Northwest Missouri State University Archives Missouri Digital Heritage Platte Purchase Treaty copy, St. Joseph Museums | Anne F. Hyde, Born of Lakes and Plains (2022), selected chapter or excerpt. |
| 4 | American Yawp, chapters 10 and 11 selected sections | NMAI Native Knowledge 360°: American Indian Removal NMAI Native Knowledge 360°: Horse Creek Treaty | Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America (2023), selected excerpt. |
| 5 | American Yawp, chapter 12 | Library of Congress: Westward Expansion—Encounters at a Cultural Crossroads National Archives: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Kevin Waite, West of Slavery (2021), selected excerpt. |
| 6 | American Yawp, chapter 12 selected sections | Library of Congress westward-expansion collections Oregon-California Trails Association educational resources | Sarah Keyes, American Burial Ground (2023), selected excerpt. |
| 7 | American Yawp, chapters 13–15 selected sections | NMAI Native Knowledge 360°: The Long Walk National Park Service Civil War in the West resources | Elliott West, Continental Reckoning (2023), selected excerpt. |
| 8 | American Yawp, chapter 16 selected sections | Library of Congress: The American West, 1865–1900 Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project | Manu Karuka, Empire’s Tracks (2019), selected excerpt. |
| 9 | American Yawp, chapter 17 selected sections | Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Digital Map | Katrina Phillips, Staging Indigeneity (2021), selected excerpt. |
| 10 | American Yawp, chapters 18–20 selected sections | Chronicling America historic newspapers Refusing to Forget educational resources | Kelly Lytle Hernández, Bad Mexicans (2022), or Monica Muñoz Martinez, The Injustice Never Leaves You (2018), selected excerpt. |
| 11 | American Yawp, chapters 17 and 20 selected sections | National Park Service: Honoring Tribal Legacies Bureau of Reclamation History Program | Megan Black, The Global Interior (2018), or Katrina Phillips, Staging Indigeneity (2021), selected excerpt. |
| 12 | American Yawp, chapters 22–24 selected sections | Library of Congress: Dust Bowl Migration Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographs Densho Digital Repository Densho teaching resources Bracero History Archive | Sarah Deutsch, Making a Modern U.S. West (2022), selected excerpt; pair with a Densho or Bracero oral history. |
| 13 | American Yawp, chapters 25–28 selected sections | National Park Service: Occupation of Alcatraz Atomic Heritage Foundation oral histories | Megan Black, The Global Interior (2018), selected excerpt; recent Western Historical Quarterly article chosen for local relevance. |
| 14 | No new reading assigned | No new scholarship assigned | |
| 15 | Instructor-selected current public sources; verify immediately before teaching | Western Historical Quarterly, current research Northwest Missouri State University Archives | One recent Western Historical Quarterly article selected to match student capstone themes. |
Links and current-affairs materials should be rechecked immediately before the course begins.