Great class to take over the summer. Only graded on one paper (4-6 pages), weekly forum posts, section participation, and the final. Really engaging lectures for an online class.

I took the online summer session for this course and was amazed at how engaging the lectures were despite being recorded! I can imagine her in person classes are even better.

Prof Perrone is an incredible lecturer. I looked forward to her class weekly. I enjoyed it so much that I am taking another one of her classes. If you are a good/competent writer and are willing to do the assigned reading (even if you just skim) you will do well in this class. I think everyone should take this course.

Loved her!

best history course I've taken as a history major! Lectures are detailed, information dense but everything is useful towards midterms & final. 2 midterm papers and the final was another 2 papers. She gives you enough time to complete them and she is really understanding if you come to her with a concern/issue. Going to lecture is KEY to passing.

She is the best history professor at UCSB in my experience. Her lectures are easy to follow and she explains everything with such great detail. I used to think history was boring until I took her course.

Perrone is the best. also if you can, take this class with Janna Haider!! she's literally the best.

took this course for my major, overall great/enthusiastic professor. alot of reading, but honestly i didn't do it all-- just read the more important pieces. grades are mostly based on papers and they aren't too hard, easy to do well even if you procrastinate. take her class! honestly pretty entertaining and you can tell she knows what she's doing

i absolutely loved Prof. Perrone! her lectures were super engaging and easy to understand and she really cares about the course material as well as her students. midterm and final were both take home essays and she was very accommodating. i didn't have the best experience with my TA but still really enjoyed the class.

Professor Perrone is an amazing lecturer. Even through the craziness of COVID, she was making the class interesting. The class consists of section attendance and participation and 3 papers which were easy because my TA was extremely helpful and accessible.

really easy assignments, watch the all the lectures but you only have to read a handful of readings. 3 papers all straightforward 3-5pgs and heavily covered in lecture/section. feels like she really cares about the class

Professor Perrone is really passionate about history and carries that passion into her lectures. Her lectures were fun and easy to follow! I absolutely loved this class!

The lectures are amazing but the grading is mostly made up with midterm, essay, and final. The class overall is very easy going and interesting. The class was asynchronous but mandatory attendance for section.

Most of the material in the lectures you probably already learned in high school history classes. Your grade really depends on how nice your TA is since they grade all of your essays. There's a midterm essay, one 5-7 page essay, and a short essay and short answer prompt for the final.

prof Perrone was the highlight of my semester. Her lectures are great and she does an amazing job explaining the area of focus she is most interested in as well. She's really engaging. And her cats are the cutest. Biscuit and Gravy often make appearances in the back of class :')

Prof Perrone is an amazing lecturer, but sometimes they can be fairly long. Required readings every week that arent difficult and are discussed during section. There is a lot to cover, but if you keep up with lectures and try hard on your essays you should do just fine.

Seems like she doesnt understand that we have other classes or lives outside of her class. The workload never lets up even if you have a midterm/essay or its a holiday. She assigns an unnecessary amount of reading and 3 lectures each week. I would strongly recommend a different professor but its not the end of the world if youre stuck with her

I don't really like US History, so my review may be biased, but I found this class very boring. The lectures were very dull and most people around me weren't paying attention at all. The section is a lot of work, and there is a lot of reading as well.

She's such a passionate and powerful lecturer and makes the hour go by so fast. Her powerpoints she posts online have clear points, but the inclass lectures go in depth much more. The midterm/final were very straightforward to easy to do well on if you paid attention to the themes she referred to throughout the lectures.

Personally thought the class was super boring but she posts her slides so I wasn't necessary to go. Everything graded in the class was writing (a short writing assignment, 1 essay and the midterm n final were in class essays) so wouldnt recommend if you don't like writing. Lots of reading but they were just important for section and the essay

I took a Hist course my 1st quarter here and it was awful so I was dreading another but she changed my mind about them! I enjoyed her lecture style, she was very organized and passionate about the Civil War, Reconstruction etc. Had 2 papers, midterm and final. They were pretty straightforward as long as attended some lecture and did readings.

I loved Perrone. Her lectures were very well organized and even though sometimes they dragged on, they were interesting for the most part. The midterm and final consist of essays that cover broad themes, they're pretty easy if you paid attention in lecture and did the readings.

Her lectures are interesting sometimes though occasionally it was tough to sit through some of them. I would say the biggest problem with the class is an identity problem - the TA's try to discuss primary source readings for the course but they rarely align with the course material itself and it feels disjointed. Exams weren't too bad if you study.

Great orator who knows how to keep people's attention since she makes everything more interesting than it really is. Don't get me wrong the content is interesting but she disseminates it in a way that actually makes you want to learn. Readings are a bit much and often dense. Depends on your TA but if you put in the work you can get an A.