Rogues & Reformers
General Objectives:
This is a semester survey course
-
It will focus on various people, famous and infamous, well known and should be known, and why their fame continues or increases into the 21st century.
-
We will attempt to decipher the myth and folklore from reality and hope to discern why they are in our popular culture
-
We will also attempt to introduce you to some new individuals that are famous and infamous and clarify the reality from the myth
Specific Objectives:
- These are the Units and the individuals we will be discussing:
- The “Old West”
- William H. Bonney a.k.a. “Billy the Kid”
- Wyatt Earp
- Jesse James
- "Bootleggers & Bank Robbers"
- Al Capone
- Eliot Ness
- Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow
- John Dillinger
- Literary Figures
- Vlad Tepis, a.k.a. “Dracula”
- William Wallace
- Elizabeth “Lizzie” Borden
- Twentieth Century
- Michael Collins
- Oskar Schindler
- Malcolm X
- Jimmy Hoffa
AP US History
Course Breakdown & Timeline:
APUSH Test: May 8th, 2025, tenative
Classes until the APUSH Test: One Hundred and Five (105)
Class distribution for Periods:
Period 6 (1865-1900) Total: Ten (10)
- Gilded Age
- Urbanization
- Closing Frontier
Period 7 (1900-1945) Total: Forty Five (45)
- Progressivism
- Imperialism
- WWI
- Roaring 20’s
- Great Depression
- WWII
Period 8 (1945-1980) Total: Thirty Five (35)
- Roots of the Cold War; Korea
- Post War Boom
- JFK/LBJ
- Vietnam
- Nixon/Watergate
- Ford/Carter
Period 9 (1981- 2001) Total: Five (5)
Link to syllabus
