Walter T. Howard, Ph.D.

Professor of History

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

114 Old Science Hall

570-389-4863/whoward@bloomu.edu
 

Spring 2008

Office Hours: MWF 9am-12noon

Bloomsburg University

BU History Department

Vitae

Syllabi: Spring 2008

42-143 syl Spring 08 Black Africa

• Africa Lecture 1 Intro & Geography
• Lecture 1 Introduction and Geography
• Africa Lecture 2 Images of Africa Past & Present
• African History Human Origans
• Stone Age in Africa Ch1 Mastering a Continent
• Africa Lecture on Race
• African Languages
• Afrocentricism
• Ancient Egypt and Nubia
• Three Sudanic Empires: Ghana, Mali, Songhai
• Timbuktu
• Sundiata Online
• Summary of Sundiata
• Sundiata Discussion Questions
• Sundiata
• Review for Exam 1
• Sample Exam 1
• Atlantic Slave Trade

42-122 syllabus Spring 08

• The Gilded Age
• Spanish-American War
• McKinley Assassination
• Progressive Era
• Race During the Progressive Era
• Sharecropping
• The Great War
• Lost Battalion Handout
• Anthracite Reds

42-472 U.S. Labor History

• Intro to the Course
• First Reading Assignment
• Document Prince Olaudah
• Intro to the Course and Ch. 2
• Week 3 Artisan to Worker
• Week 4 Slavery to Free Labor
• Week 5 and 6 Age of Industrial Conflict
• Anthracite Reds