Course modules

History modules and Math/Stat modules

• History modules:

  • Introduction to the course
  • Indiana in 1860: some hypotheses
  • Indiana in 1860: more hypotheses
  • Social and economic patterns of life in 1860 I
  • Social and economic patterns of life in 1860 II
  • Library research I: locating a primary scholarly article
  • Library research II: locating related secondary information
  • Format and foibles of essay/paper writing

• Math/Stat modules:

  • Introduction to Excel
  • Some initial guesses about 1860 Indiana
  • Sources of information: how reliable are they?
  • Reliability and validity of variables
  • Various types of errors
  • Types of variables
  • Historical information on the web
  • Descriptive statistics of one variable
  • Relationship between two variables
  • Multivariate study of the census data
  • Sampling distribution of the sample average
  • Sampling distribution of the sample proportion
  • Normal distributions
  • Hypotheses testing: one group
  • Hypotheses testing: two groups