Welcome Oakland Charter High School Students!
This school year, unlike previous studies in Europe, Asia, Latin America, or Africa, will focus primarily on United States History from the Civil War to the present-day. The course will feature study maps, exclusive documentaries, projects, and essays describing the late 19th Century, the 20th Century, and the 21st Century.
US History is filled with giant figures in History like Abraham Lincoln or John D. Rockefeller. It is also filled with contention and movements for rights, quality of life, and liberation from tyrannical control by the very same giants, we all admire and love. The 20th Century has been called the Century of Neocolonialism and the Century of Genocide. Major wars, governments, Corporations, Banks, and now private Militias left a huge footprint like never before witnessed. There were also major advances in technology as Americans will end horse travel and embark on the road to inventing the automobiles and airplanes. American Astronauts will even visit Space and walk on the Moon. We shall now forget the television, World Wide Web, the Cell phone, or Michael Jackson! Get ready to consider all the facts, ponder on the same questions, and learn the American journey, as we live it today.
-Mr. Amaye-Obu
