2/3-5 INDIANS
AND EMPIRE
Blackboard:
Hackel, "Land, Labor, and Production" Hackel
Discussion Questions
Blackboard: “Thomas Jefferson’s Secret Message to Congress”
Blackboard: :
“Jean De Brebeuf, Instructions for the Fathers of Our Society Who Shall BeSent
to the Hurons” and “Micmac Elder, Speech to French Settlers”
Web
Site: Andrew Jackson's Case for the Removal of Indians
Web
Site: “Memorial of the Cherokee Nation (1830)
2 10-12 ANGLO/MEXICAN
FRONTIER
Blackboard:
De
Leon, “They Called Them Greasers, Ch. 1-2” DeLeon Discussion Questions
Web
Site: The Texas Declaration of Independence March 2 1836
Web
Site: John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny 1839
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2/17-19 CONQUEST
OF THE WEST
Reading: West,
Ch. 1-7 Contested Plains,
Ch. 1-7 Discussion
Blackboard:
Charles Sumner, “A War to Strengthen the Slavery Interests”
2/24-26 LIFE
IN THE NEW AMERICAN WEST
Reading: West,
Ch. 8-end Contested
Plains, Ch. 8-end Discussion
Web
Site: Red Cloud's Speech
Web
Site: The Dawes Act and
President
Arthur's Address
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3/3-5 RAILROADS,
ECONOMY, AND ENVIRONMENT
Blackboard:
Rothman, "The Tourism of Hegemony I"
Web
Site: John
Muir: "Our Forests and National Parks"
3/10-12 THE
WEST COMES OF AGE
Reading: Wrobel, Ch. 1-5 Wrobel Discussion
Web
Site:
Omaha
Platform, 1892 / Platform backup link
MIDTERM
3/17-19
CONFLICT
AND CHANGE IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY WEST
Reading: Wrobel, Ch. 6-7
Blackboard:
Wrobel, "The Second Boosterist Phase”
Wrobel Discussion Questions
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3/24-26
FEDERAL
WEST IN DEPRESSION AND WAR
Reading: Wrobel, Ch. 8-10
Reading: Aquila, Ch. 1-2 Wanted Dead or
Alive, Ch. 1-2 Discussion
3/31 SPRING BREAK
4/7-9
COLD
WAR WEST
Reading: Aquila,
Ch. 4, 6 Wanted Dead or Alive
Ch. 4 and 6 Discussion
Blackboard:
Montoya, “Landscapes of the Cold War West”
Discussion Questions
4/14-16 RACE,
DEMOCRACY, AND POLITICS
Reading: Aquila, Ch. 7 Wanted Dead or Alive, Ch. 7
Web
Site: McCone
Report on Watts
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4/21-23
SUNBELT
CITIES
Reading:
Aquila, Ch. 10 Wanted
Dead or Alive, Ch. 10
Blackboard:
Rothman, Entertainment
Tourism"
Rothman Discussion
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4/28-30
REAGAN’S
WEST
RESEARCH PAPER DUE MONDAY
5/5-7
A
GREEN WEST THE WEST IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Web
Site:
Stegner:
Wilderness Letter"
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FINAL
EXAM: Monday,
May 12 th,
1pm-3pm
Schedule is
subject to change*
