Traditional United States History focuses usually on major moments, events, people, and movements that are common to many students and this is typically from a Eurocentric perspective. Most students are very familiar with this history. However, after a 20 year career in education, I have come to learn that majority a US History students have not been given a comprehensive History of others in the narrative. This course intentionally places the mainstream United States history narrative as the backdrop, and emphasizes and brings to the forefront the History of African/ Black Americans. This course covers the pre colonial African Experience until the end of the Civil War.

In this course students will get a comprehensive and plainly taught course on African American History. The course is thoroughly research and the information given is credible and well documented. While this course is easily accessible to any scholar it's taught in a college level format for maximum learning and education.

In this course the student will learn the following:

1. Describe the cultural and political history of West Africa and the sub-Saharan equatorial Africa.

2. Discuss the origins of slavery in the American colonies.

3. Explain the arguments for and against slavery.

4. Describe and give examples of blacks in the American Revolution.

5. Analyze the importance of the emerging Afro-American culture, the black church and the black family

from 1800-1860.

6. Describe the emergence of black leadership in the slave rebellions.

7. Analyze the importance of blacks in the Union and Confederate armies.