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Monday,
August 27
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Housekeeping Details & Introduction
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Monday,
September 3
LABOR DAY
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NO CLASS
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Monday,
September 10
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Reading:
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History
William Cronon, et al., “Becoming West: Toward a New Meaning for Western History,” Under an Open Sky
Richard White, “Are You an Environmentalist? Or Do You Work for a Living,” Uncommon Ground
Katherine Morrissey, “Engendering the West,” Under an Open Sky
William Deverell, “Fighting Words: The Significance of the American West in the History of the United States,” Western Historical Quarterly XXV (Summer 1994)
David Emmons, “Constructed Province: History and the Making of the Last American West,” and “A Round table of Responses,” Western Historical Quarterly XXV (Winter 1994)
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Monday,
September 17
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Reading:
Patricia Nelson Limerick, Legacy of Conquest
Larry McMurtry, “Wagons Ho Hum!” New Republic, Oct. 22, 1990
(Bring in one outside review or commentary on Legacy of Conquest)
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Monday,
September 24
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Reading:
Ramon Gutierrez, When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away
PAPER TOPIC DUE
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Monday,
October 1
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Reading:
Richard White, Middle Ground
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Wednesday,
October 8
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Reading:
John Logan Allen, Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest |
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Monday,
October 15
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Reading:
Elliot West, The Way to the West
Susan Johnson, “‘A Memory Sweet to Soldiers:’ The Significance of Gender in the American West,” Western Historical Quarterly XXIV
(November 1993)
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Monday,
October 22
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Reading:
William Robbins, Colony and Empire
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Monday,
October 29
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Reading:
Richard Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormonism
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
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Monday,
November 5
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Reading:
James Welch, Fool’s Crow
Ian Frazier, On the Rez
David R. Lewis, “Still Native: The Significance of Native Americans in the History of the 20th Century American West,” Western Historical
Quarterly (May 1993)
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Monday,
November 12
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Reading:
Neil Foley, White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture
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Monday,
November 19
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Reading:
George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American
Antonia Casteneda, “Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History,” Pacific Historical Review, 1992
David G. Gutierrez, “Significant to Whom?: Mexican Americans and the History of the American West,” Western Historical Quarterly (November 1993)
FIRST DRAFT DUE
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Monday,
November 26
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Reading:
Mark Reisner, Cadillac Desert
John Findlay, “Far Western Cityscapes and American Culture Since 1940,” Western Historical Quarterly XXII (February 1991)
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Monday,
December 3
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Reading:
Kevin Fernlund, ed., Cold War West, excerpts
Michael McGerr, "Is There a Twentieth Century West?" in Under an
Open Sky
Richard White, “The Current Weirdness in the West,” Western Historical Quarterly, XXVIII (Spring 1997)
McLure, Helen, “The Wild, Wild Web: The Mythic American West and the Electronic Frontier,” Western Historical Quarterly XXXI (Winter 2000)
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Tuesday,
December 11
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FINAL PAPER DUE
SELF-EVALUATION DUE
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