I am a tenured Professor of History at the University of Mobile. I joined UM’s faculty in 2012 after serving as an adjunct professor for a number of colleges, and as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
I teach courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Below, you’ll find examples of syllabi and course material I use in my classes. For a full list of courses taught, please refer to my CV.
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Examples of Course Material
This video lecture is taken from an advanced undergraduate course I teach on the Vietnam War. This lecture is part of a broader module that includes readings and class discussion.
This video lecture is taken from an American history survey course. It, too, is part of a larger module that includes primary source readings on the New Deal and class discussion.
The following three syllabi are examples of courses from various academic levels. HI 103 is a first-year, survey-level undergraduate course covering World Civilizaitons to 1500. HI 409 is an advanced undergraduate course on the American Civil Rights Movement . HI 602 is a Masters-level graduate seminar focused on Domestic Anti-Communism and McCarthyism in the 1940s and 1950s.
Matthew L. Downs, Ph.D. 