Understanding and analysis are more important than the ability to recite a string of facts.
Random facts are meaningless.
As historians this semester, your task is to find meaning in the past. I will expect you to learn to gather, organize, and analyze information and present your findings clearly in good English. Therefore, the lectures do not substitute for reading the textbook or vice versa. Understand major political, social, and economic developments in modern U.S. history. Grasp the relationship between events.