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US History, World History, and African American Studies missions

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US History / APUSH-1 / 1491

Native Societies Before European Contact

Compare Native societies across North America before sustained European contact.

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US History / APUSH-1 / 1492

The Columbian Exchange

Trace how crops, animals, pathogens, and labor systems transformed the Atlantic world.

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US History / APUSH-2 / 1607

Spanish, French, Dutch, and English Colonies

Compare labor, religion, trade, and Native diplomacy across colonial regions.

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US History / APUSH-2 / 1676

Atlantic Slavery and Colonial Resistance

Investigate how slavery, land conflict, and colonial politics hardened racial hierarchy.

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US History / APUSH-3 / 1763

French and Indian War to Imperial Crisis

Decide how empire, debt, taxation, and resistance pushed colonists toward revolution.

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US History / APUSH-3 / 1776

Declaration, Revolution, and Republican Ideals

Evaluate revolutionary arguments, military choices, and contradictions over liberty.

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US History / APUSH-3 / 1787

Constitution, Federalism, and the Early Republic

Build a constitutional settlement from confederation weakness, state interests, and rights debates.

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US History / APUSH-4 / 1825

Market Revolution and Reform

Connect transportation, industrial work, reform movements, and changing family economies.

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US History / APUSH-4 / 1830

Jacksonian Democracy and Indian Removal

Test the contradiction between expanded white male democracy and forced Native removal.

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US History / APUSH-4 / 1835

The Cotton Kingdom and Slavery's Expansion

Analyze how cotton, land, credit, and coercion expanded slavery across the South.

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US History / APUSH-5 / 1846

Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War

Decide how expansion, slavery, and national identity collided in western conquest.

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US History / APUSH-5 / 1854

Sectional Crisis and the Road to Civil War

Track how compromise failed over slavery, popular sovereignty, and political violence.

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US History / APUSH-5 / 1863

Civil War Strategy and Emancipation

Use military, political, and moral evidence to explain emancipation as a war aim.

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US History / APUSH-5 / 1868

Reconstruction, Rights, and Redemption

Weigh constitutional amendments, federal enforcement, Black political power, and white backlash.

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US History / APUSH-6 / 1886

Industrial Capital and Labor in the Gilded Age

Investigate trusts, railroads, immigration, labor conflict, and state power.

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US History / APUSH-7 / 1906

Progressive Reform and American Cities

Turn muckraking evidence into policy choices on labor, food safety, settlement houses, and democracy.

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US History / APUSH-7 / 1898

American Imperialism and the Spanish-American War

Debate empire, anti-imperialism, strategic power, and the status of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines.

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US History / APUSH-7 / 1917

World War I Home Front and Treaty Debate

Balance mobilization, civil liberties, wartime dissent, and the fight over the League of Nations.

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US History / APUSH-7 / 1925

1920s Consumer Culture and the Harlem Renaissance

Interpret modernism, migration, jazz, literature, consumer credit, and cultural backlash.

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US History / APUSH-7 / 1933

Great Depression and New Deal State

Use evidence from banks, farms, workers, and courts to decide how the federal state should respond.

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US History / APUSH-7 / 1945

Manhattan Project and the Atomic Age

From secret research to atomic warfare, weigh scientific urgency, military strategy, and ethics.

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US History / APUSH-7 / 1942

World War II Home Front, Internment, and Mobilization

Assess total war production, Japanese American incarceration, women workers, and Black freedom claims.

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US History / APUSH-8 / 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

Navigate the nuclear standoff using evidence from reconnaissance, diplomacy, and military planning.

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US History / APUSH-8 / 1964

Civil Rights Movement and Federal Intervention

Connect grassroots organizing, court decisions, direct action, media, and federal law.

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US History / APUSH-8 / 1968

Vietnam War and Protest Politics

Evaluate escalation, credibility, antiwar protest, media evidence, and public trust.

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US History / APUSH-8 / 1969

Space Race and Moon Landing

Guide the space race from Cold War prestige to the Apollo 11 landing.

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US History / APUSH-8 / 1972

Great Society, Sunbelt, and Conservative Backlash

Explain welfare state expansion, rights movements, suburban politics, and the rise of conservatism.

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US History / APUSH-9 / 1984

Reagan Era and the Late Cold War

Assess tax policy, deregulation, social conservatism, defense spending, and Cold War diplomacy.

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US History / APUSH-9 / 2001

Globalization, 9/11, and the Twenty-First Century

Connect trade, immigration, terrorism, surveillance, war, and political polarization.

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World History / APWH-1 / 1200

Song China and the Global Tapestry

Investigate bureaucracy, commercialization, Champa rice, urbanization, and Confucian governance.

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World History / APWH-1 / 1258

Dar al-Islam and Knowledge Networks

Follow political fragmentation, trade, scholarship, and cultural exchange across Islamic states.

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World History / APWH-1 / 1300

South and Southeast Asian States

Compare Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic influences in states tied to Indian Ocean trade.

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World History / APWH-2 / 1241

Mongol Empire and Eurasian Connectivity

Track conquest, trade protection, disease movement, and cultural exchange under Mongol rule.

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World History / APWH-2 / 1300

Silk Roads: Commerce, Credit, and Culture

Use caravan, city, and traveler evidence to explain overland exchange.

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World History / APWH-2 / 1400

Indian Ocean Trade and Swahili City-States

Sail monsoon routes linking East Africa, Arabia, India, Southeast Asia, and China.

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World History / APWH-2 / 1324

Trans-Saharan Trade and West African Empires

Follow gold, salt, Islam, and scholarship through Mali and the Sahara.

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World History / APWH-3 / 1550

Land-Based Empires: Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Power

Compare gunpowder states, religious policy, taxation, and elite administration.

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World History / APWH-3 / 1689

Qing and Russian Imperial Expansion

Map frontier expansion, tribute, forced labor, and diplomacy in Eurasian empires.

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World History / APWH-4 / 1492

Maritime Exploration and the Americas

Analyze how voyages, conquest, disease, and extraction transformed the Atlantic world.

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World History / APWH-4 / 1700

Transatlantic Slave Trade

Investigate forced migration, plantation economies, resistance, and demographic transformation.

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World History / APWH-5 / 1789

French Revolution and Revolutionary Ideology

Test how Enlightenment ideas, fiscal crisis, and social inequality produced revolution.

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World History / APWH-5 / 1791

Haitian and Latin American Revolutions

Compare anticolonial, anti-slavery, and creole independence movements in the Atlantic world.

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World History / APWH-5 / 1800

Industrial Revolution in Britain and Beyond

Model how coal, textile production, labor, capital, and empire created industrialization.

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World History / APWH-6 / 1884

Imperialism in Africa and Asia

Use Berlin Conference maps, resistance accounts, and economic data to explain new imperialism.

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World History / APWH-6 / 1868

Meiji Restoration and Japanese Modernization

Decide how Japan responds to Western pressure through state-led industrial and military reform.

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World History / APWH-7 / 1919

Treaty of Versailles and the Postwar Order

Negotiate reparations, self-determination, mandates, and security after World War I.

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World History / APWH-7 / 1917

Russian Revolution and Soviet State Building

Trace war pressure, class conflict, Bolshevik strategy, civil war, and planned economy.

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World History / APWH-7 / 1933

Interwar Fascism and Mass Politics

Investigate depression, nationalism, propaganda, and authoritarian movements in interwar societies.

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World History / APWH-7 / 1942

World War II as Global Conflict

Map total war, genocide, occupation, resistance, and alliance strategy across theaters.

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World History / APWH-8 / 1947

Indian Independence and Partition

Balance nonviolent resistance, imperial weakness, religious nationalism, and partition violence.

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World History / APWH-8 / 1949

Chinese Revolution and Maoist China

Track civil war, land reform, revolution, collectivization, and Cold War alignment.

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World History / APWH-8 / 1960

African Decolonization and Nation Building

Compare negotiated independence, armed struggle, Cold War pressure, and postcolonial state building.

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World History / APWH-8 / 1968

Cold War Proxy Wars

Analyze Korea, Vietnam, Angola, and Afghanistan as conflicts shaped by local causes and superpower rivalry.

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World History / APWH-8 / 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall and Eastern Europe

Guide a transition from authoritarian rule to open borders without state violence.

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World History / APWH-8 / 1991

Fall of the Soviet Union

Navigate reform, nationalism, coup politics, and nuclear security as a superpower dissolves.

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World History / APWH-9 / 1995

Globalization, Trade, and Institutions

Evaluate global supply chains, WTO politics, labor, consumer choice, and inequality.

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World History / APWH-9 / 2020

COVID-19 and Global Interdependence

Model public health, vaccine science, misinformation, supply chains, and unequal global risk.

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World History / APWH-9 / 2011

Arab Spring and Digital-Age Protest

Investigate protest, social media, state repression, democratic transition, and civil conflict.

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African American Studies / APAAS-1 / 1400

African Kingdoms and Knowledge Systems

Explore African states, trade, scholarship, arts, and governance before the Atlantic slave trade.

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African American Studies / APAAS-2 / 1700

Middle Passage and the Making of the African Diaspora

Use ship records, narratives, and maps to understand forced migration and survival.

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African American Studies / APAAS-2 / 1739

Maroon Communities and Resistance

Compare flight, rebellion, negotiation, and cultural survival in maroon societies.

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African American Studies / APAAS-2 / 1777

Black Petitions in the Revolutionary Era

Read Black freedom petitions against revolutionary claims of liberty.

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African American Studies / APAAS-2 / 1791

Haitian Revolution and Black Freedom

Investigate the only successful slave revolt that created an independent nation.

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African American Studies / APAAS-2 / 1845

Abolition and Black Leadership

Analyze speeches, narratives, newspapers, and organizing by Black abolitionists.

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African American Studies / APAAS-2 / 1863

Emancipation and Black Soldiers

Connect self-emancipation, federal policy, and Black military service in the Civil War.

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African American Studies / APAAS-3 / 1870

Reconstruction and Black Political Power

Follow Black officeholding, schools, churches, constitutional change, and white supremacist violence.

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African American Studies / APAAS-3 / 1896

Jim Crow, Disfranchisement, and Racial Violence

Use court cases, voting data, and anti-lynching evidence to understand racial apartheid.

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African American Studies / APAAS-3 / 1900

Black Education and HBCUs

Compare educational visions, institution building, and debates over industrial and liberal education.

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African American Studies / APAAS-3 / 1916

Great Migration and Urban Black Life

Trace migration decisions, labor markets, racial violence, housing, and community formation.

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African American Studies / APAAS-3 / 1925

Harlem Renaissance and Cultural Authority

Curate poetry, visual art, music, patronage, and debates over representation.

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African American Studies / APAAS-4 / 1942

Double V Campaign and World War II

Connect wartime service, industrial work, civil rights organizing, and claims against fascism and racism.

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African American Studies / APAAS-4 / 1955

Montgomery, Direct Action, and Civil Rights Strategy

Simulate boycott logistics, grassroots leadership, legal strategy, and media pressure.

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African American Studies / APAAS-4 / 1966

Black Power and Movement Debate

Compare self-defense, community control, electoral politics, and nonviolent direct action.

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African American Studies / APAAS-4 / 1977

Black Feminism and Intersectionality

Analyze how Black feminists challenged race-only and gender-only frameworks.

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African American Studies / APAAS-4 / 1988

Hip-Hop and Cultural Politics

Read music, sampling, space, policing, and youth expression as historical evidence.

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African American Studies / APAAS-4 / 1994

Mass Incarceration and Policy Debate

Use sentencing data, policy texts, and community testimony to debate punishment and safety.

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African American Studies / APAAS-4 / 2000

Afrofuturism, Technology, and Imagination

Explore how artists and thinkers use speculative futures to reinterpret history and possibility.

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African American Studies / APAAS-4 / 2021

Reparations, Memory, and Public Policy

Evaluate evidence for repair through slavery, segregation, housing, wealth, and public memory.

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Global History / GLOBAL / 476 AD

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

A legacy global-history mission about institutions surviving after imperial collapse.

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