Due: Jan. 28–Reflection 1 (In-Class Writing)

Due: Jan.  30–

Contact & The Colonies
Watch: Crash Course 2, Colonizing America
Watch: Crash Course 3, The Natives and the English
Watch: Crash Course, The Atlantic Slave Trade
Read: Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. “Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father But By His Mother.” New York Times, July 30, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/us/obamas-mother-had-african-forebear-study-suggests.html?smid=pl-share
Weekly Writing 1:  What questions does the article from the New York Times raise for you about how historians research the past and what they do when they don’t have complete information?  How does the article add to or complicate your understanding of the history of slavery?  How does it add to or complicate from the information in the Crash Course videos?

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