Course Site (Pending)

This site will publish the full syllabus, mission statement, schedules, course materials, rules, and some of the assigned reading for the following three courses at CCNY in the Fall 2026 semester. Updates will be announced.

  • HIST 24100 – “THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1865” – Section M (20672)
    Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00AM-12:15PM
    Shepard Hall, Room S-376
  • HIST 24100 – “THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1865” – Section P (20675)
    Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00-3:15PM
    North Academic Center (NAC), Room 5-109
  • USSO 10100 –– “DEVELOPMENT OF THE U.S. & ITS PEOPLE”
    Section S (58454)
    Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:00-6:15PM
    Shepard Hall, Room S-204

Most of the reading will be provided in print packages handed out in class.

For a start, students usually want to know about course grading. It is the same for all three courses:

GRADING BREAKDOWN

Attendance & Classroom Presence, 40%

  • Arrive prepared and on-time.
  • Be attentive and participate.
  • Phones must be hidden from view and turned off during class time. If it’s an emergency, please take your phone outside into the hall.
  • Sorry, no eating or sleeping in class. (Sorry to have to say it.)
  • College rules: Four unexcused absences = course fail.
  • Read and follow the course rules (link coming).

Quizzes and Short Homework, 25%

  • There will be a number of unannounced quizzes on the reading due for that day, always given at the start of class.
  • There will be a number of short homework assignments based on class notes or readings, and due at the following class.

Midterm, 7%

Final Exam, 13%

  • College requirement: “It is mandatory that your class has an in-class final exam and that it be given during finals week. Students are required to take the final and may not make travel plans during finals week.”

Group assignment or individual paper, 15%

  • Students will either write an individual short research paper (5-7 pages) or engage in a group assignment together with colleagues, possibly to be presented in class. In either case, this will involve multiple stages of work and it will be required that subjects and methods are discussed and agreed upon in advance with the instructor during office hours.

Public History Assignment, 5%

  • A fun extra-credit assignment that will be announced after the Midterm.

Fastest way to fail the course

  • Plagiarism, including and especially presenting anything produced by an LLM (“AI”) as your own work.

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While we update, here are two photographs of Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (center, light suit), debating the subject of consumerism with Richard Nixon, president of the United States (dark suit), at an exhibition featuring a model American kitchen in Moscow, July 1959.

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Image credit: Howard Sochurek/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images