American history is not a single story. It is a mosaic of many stories: women, immigrants, Native Americans, Christians, and Jews, all played a role in creating the nation we inhabit today. One of the most consequential stories is that of African Americans. This course will follow their journey from Africa to America. It will not only retell familiar stories of slavery and emancipation and Jim Crow, but also less well-known accounts of individuals and movements that strove against tremendous odds to realize the full potential of African Americans as citizens of a supposedly democratic republic and image bearers of God in a predominantly Christian nation.

          Subject: history

Daniel Miller received his BA from Westmont College in California and his PhD in US and Latin American History from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He was a member of the Calvin University history department for 32 years where, among other topics, he taught courses on the US Civil War and Reconstruction and the History of Race Relations.