COR 100 - United States: Issues, Ideas, and Institutions

In December of 2019, a new respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a novel coronavirus was first detected in central China. Within the first five weeks of the outbreak, tens of thousands of people were infected and more than a thousand died. The outbreak has been categorized as a public hea...

Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, entered in office on March 4th 1929. On October of that same year, the stock market crashed and the nation started to fall apart. By 1930, four million people were out of work and by the next year six million, and nearly half of the banks of t...

Is it upon mature consideration we adopt the idea, that nature is thus partial in her distributions? Is it indeed a fact, that she hath yielded to one half of the human species so unquestionable a mental superiority? I know that to both sexes elevated understandings, and the reverse, are common. But...

The 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing same sex marriage was the result of a well-organized movement for the LBGTQ rights that adopted, and in some ways perfected, the tactics of the civil rights movement. The drive for LGBTQ rights is often seen as beginning with the Stonewall riots in New York...

Poem by Langston Hughes - Let America Be America Again

Income (Share of income by socioeconomic groups over time), Wealth (Snapshot of concentration of wealth), Intergenerational Transfer of Wealth

Article on Herbert Hoover Protests the New Deal and the Great Depression

In his Report on Manufacturers, excerpted below, Alexander Hamilton articulated an ambitious plan to support the new nation’s infant industries and to encourage industrial development.

Article: FDR's Second Fireside Chat

Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in 1838 and made his way to New England. By 1841, Douglass was relating his experiences at abolitionist meetings throughout the eastern states. Douglass’s book, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), forced him to flee to England as he had r...

Think of the world you will be living in the rest of your life. Actually, you are already living in it. Groups making demands, sometimes peacefully, sometimes violently but almost always disturbingly. Politicians making promises of a brave new world, or at least one from which the troubles of the da...

Think of the world you will be living in the rest of your life. Actually, you are already living in it. Groups making demands, sometimes peacefully, sometimes violently but almost always disturbingly. Politicians making promises of a brave new world, or at least one from which the troubles of the da...

COR 100 Final Exam review topics with summaries

Founding a Nation, 1776 - 1789, framing the Constitution