The Early Republic 
Watch: Crash Course 8, The Constitution, The Articles, and Federalism
Watch: Crash Course 9, Where US Politics Came From
Watch: Crash Course 10, Thomas Jefferson and His Democracy
(Sometimes the Closed Captions do not seem to work on the PBS site. You can also find all the Crash Course videos on Youtube, although you need to watch an ad first. All the American history videos are on this page: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s)
Read: Kalman, Maira. “Time Wastes Too Fast.” New York Times. June 25, 2009. http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/time-wastes-too-fast/?_r=0
Read: LeFlouria, Talitha. “When Slavery is Erased from Plantations.” The Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 2, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/when-slavery-is-erased-from-plantations/568765/ 

Due: Response Paper 3: What do Maira Kalman’s illustrations add to your understanding of Thomas Jefferson?  What concerns does LeFlourina raise about how plantation museums depict slavery? How do the Kalman blog/illustrations and the LeFlourina article add to or complicate the information in the Crash Course videos?

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