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History 1: American

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  1. Lesson 1: Orientation
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  2. Lesson 2: The Banner of the Sun (Meso-America)
    13 Steps
  3. Lesson 3: Brave New World (The Early Explorers)
    11 Steps
  4. Lesson 4: The Colossus of Empire (The Colonies)
    11 Steps
  5. Lesson 5: Stability & Change (The Reformational Colonies)
    11 Steps
  6. Lesson 6: A City Upon A Hill (The Puritans)
    12 Steps
  7. Lesson 7: A Foreign War at Home (Wars of Control)
    11 Steps
  8. Lesson 8: Grace, the Founder of Liberty (The Great Awakening)
    14 Steps
  9. Lesson 9: Fathers of Independence (Adams, Franklin, Witherspoon, & Henry)
    11 Steps
  10. Lesson 10: Liberty or Death (The Declaration of Independence)
    11 Steps
  11. Lesson 11: Awesome Providence (The War of Independence 1)
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  12. Lesson 12: Awesome Providence (The War of Independence 2)
    11 Steps
  13. Lesson 13: A More Perfect Union (The Constitution)
    12 Steps
  14. Lesson 14: Federal Headship (George Washington)
    11 Steps
  15. Lesson 15: How Good & Pleasant It Is (Adams & Jefferson)
    14 Steps
  16. Lesson 16: Manifest Destiny (Settlers, Explorers, & War)
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  17. Lesson 17: Word & Deed (John Quincy Adams & Andrew Jackson)
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  18. Lesson 18: The Original United Nations (Expansion of the Early U.S.)
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  19. Lesson 19: Idols of Mercy (Revivals, Counterfeits, & Art)
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  20. Lesson 20: A House Divided 1 (The Age of Compromise & Divided Cultures)
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  21. Lesson 21: A House Divided 2 (Abraham Lincoln & Secession)
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  22. Lesson 22: The Second War for Independence (The War Between the States 1)
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  23. Lesson 23: Brother Against Brother (The War Between the States 2)
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  24. Lesson 24: The Lost Cause (Reconstruction)
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  25. Lesson 25: A New Normal (The West, Immigration, & Robber Barons)
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  26. Lesson 26: Theology As Biography (Theodore Roosevelt & Booker T. Washington)
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ASSIGNMENT: 

  1. Read the accounts of Vineland (Wineland) from Arguments and Proofs that Support the Claim of Norse Discovery of America by Arthur M. Reeves.
  2. Write a short essay or discuss with your instructor: What do you notice about the nature of the founding of Vineland?

SELECTION: From Arguments and Proofs that Support the Claim of Norse Discovery of America by Arthur M. Reeves.

ACCOUNT 1: Leif, a son of Eric the Red, passed this same winter, in good repute, with King Olaf, and accepted Christianity. And that summer, when Gizur went to Iceland, King Olaf sent Leif to Greenland to proclaim Christianity there. He sailed that summer to Greenland. He found men upon a wreck at sea and succored them. Then, likewise, he discovered Wineland the Good, and arrived in Greenland in the autumn. He took with him thither a priest and other spiritual teachers, and went to Brattahlid to make his home with his father, Eric. People afterwards called him Leif the Lucky. But his father, Eric, said that one account should balance the other, that Leif had rescued the ship’s crew, and that he had brought the trickster to Greenland. This was the priest.

ACCOUNT 2: King Olaf then sent Leif to Greenland to proclaim Christianity there. The king sent a priest and other holy men with him, to baptize the people there, and to instruct them in the true faith. Leif sailed to Greenland that summer, and rescued at sea the men of a ship’s crew, who were in great peril and were clinging to [lit. lay upon] the shattered wreckage of a ship; and on this same voyage be found Wineland the Good, and at the end of the summer arrived in Greenland, and betook himself to Brattahlid, to make his home with his father, Eric. People afterwards called him Leif the Lucky, but his father, Eric, said that the one [deed] offset the other, in that Leif had on the one hand rescued and restored the men of the ship’s crew to life, while on the other he had brought the trickster to Greenland, for thus he called the priest.