Course Schedule

Read in preparation for our first class session: Anthony Grafton & James Grossman, “Habits of Mind” The American Scholar (Winter 2015)


Week 1: Introductions


Wednesday
23 August

Introductions & Setting the Stage

Digital History Setup:

  • Please sign up for a Voices blogging account.   Even students who have used voices in the past will need to create a new account (the system was updated over the summer.). Upload a picture of yourself to help your classmates learn your name.  Remember to change your user name to your first name and final initial to protect your privacy.
  • Sign up on Moodle for two formal blog posts: Latin American History & Culture and Class Notes.  I’d recommend that you pick two different weeks.  First come, first served!

Week 2: Old Worlds


Monday
28 August

Africa & Iberia in 1491

**Colonial LA Map Quiz Handout FA2017**

To complete for today’s class:

Remember: If you have not already done so, sign up on Moodle for two formal blog posts: Latin American History & Culture and Class Notes.

Wednesday
30 August

Environment & History

*Material Culture Project Guidelines**

To complete for today’s class:

Any time this week

 Week 2 Wikipedia Setup

  • Accept my invitation to join our Wikipedia course page (you’ll get this through your Wooster email).
  • By Sunday, complete the first set of Wikipedia trainings and introduce yourself on a classmate’s talk page.

Week 3: New Worlds


Monday
4 September

Mesoamerica

*Map Quiz at the Beginning of Class**

To complete for today’s class:

Wednesday
6 September

South American Empires

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P “The Andes in the Fifteenth Century” 40-51
  • LA&P Readings: Section 1 “Writing & Record-Keeping in the Ancient Americas”  NOTE: Always bring your LA&P Readings book to class for discussion.
  • Simon Romero.  “Mysteries Woven into Peru’s Past.”  New York Times Audio Slideshow.  16 August 2010.

Friday

8 September

Week 3 Wikipedia Assignments

  • By the end of the day on Friday, complete the “Evaluating Articles & Sources Training.”
  • Critiquing Wikipedia blog post: Evaluate your choice of any article related to course themes. (Check out the full blog prompt and list of questions to consider on our Wikipedia Course Portal).  Tag your post Wikipedia.

Week 4: Brazil & the Caribbean


Monday
11 September

Brazil & the Caribbean

**Paper #1 Assignment Guidelines**

To complete for today’s class:

Wednesday
13 September

First Reports

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P “The European Conquest of America” 64-76
  • Marsielle Meléndez “Visualizing Difference: The Rhetoric of Clothing in Colonial Spanish America” (arp)
  • “There Can Easily Be Stamped Upon Them Whatever Belief We Wish to Give Them” (arp)
  • Historical Analysis Prep on First Reports
Friday
15 September

Week 4 Wikipedia Assignments

  • Complete the training on “Sources & Citations.”  Then practice adding 1-2 sentences and citations to a (relevant) article.

Week 5: early encounters


Monday
18 September

Early Colonial Perspectives

To complete for today’s class:

  • Pat Seed, “The Requirement: A Protocol for Conquest” (arp)
  • Arnold J. Bauer, “Contact Goods” from Goods, Power, History: Latin America’s Material Culture (arp)
  • Schwartz, “Civilizations in Conflict” 12-28
  • Early Colonial Perspectives Historical Analysis Prep
Wednesday
20 September

Two Visions of Conquest

To complete for today’s class:

Friday
22 September

Upload First Reports Essay to Moodle by noon.


Week 6: Two Visions of Conquest


Monday
25 September

Tenochtitlan & Its Fall

*Midterm Exam Study Guide*

To complete for today’s class:

Wednesday
27 September

Fall of Tenochtitlán: Political, Social, & Environmental Consequences

To complete for today’s class:

Friday
29 September

Week 6 Wikipedia Assignments

  • Complete the “Sandboxes & Mainspace” training
  • Share your plans and sources for improving your article on its Talk Page.  Outline your proposed improvements, why they are important, and list 6-8 sources of evidence.

Week 7: Colonial Identities


Monday
2 October

Colonial Identities: Go-Betweens

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P “Building a Colonial Society” 77-83
  • Human Trad #2 “Don Melchior Caruarayco” & #4 “Domingos Fernandes Nobre” (NOTE: always bring Human Tradition to class when we plan to discuss it!)
  • Historical Analysis Prep: Colonial Identities
Wednesday
4 October

Midterm Exam

Friday
6 October

Week 7 Wikipedia Assignments

  • Complete the “Peer Review” training.  I’ll assign you two articles to review.  For this first stage of your peer review, use the article “Talk” page to leave feedback on your peers’ planned improvements and use of sources.  Do you have any additional ideas?
  • Over break: read and respond to your peers’ (and my) suggestions on your article talk page.  A full draft of your article is due on Wednesday, October 25.

Fall Break



Week 8: Colonial Institutions


Monday
16 October

Colonial Institutions

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P: “The Spiritual Conquest” to “Conclusion” 83-95
  • “Two Images from the Codex Osuna” (arp)
  • “An encomendero’s establishment” & “An encomendero’s opinions” (arp)
  • Richard Kagan “Projecting Order” (arp)
  • Historical Analysis Prep: Colonial Institutions
Wednesday
18 October

Conversion & Evangelization

To complete for today’s class:

  • HumTrad: #1 Gaspar Antonio Chi & #8 Diego de Ocaña
  • Orders Given to ‘the Twelve’ (1523) (arp)
  • Historical Analysis Prep: Conversion & Evangelization

http://www.onzeonze.com.br/blog360/toursaofrancisco/

Friday
20 October

Research Prospectus Due

Upload your abstract and annotated bibliography to Moodle by noon.

Wikipedia Week 8: By the end of this week, complete the “Plagiarism” training.  Start drafting your article in the mainspace, incorporating your peer review feedback.  (Full draft due next Wednesday 10/25.)


Weeks 9: formulating New Societies


Monday
23 October

Debates over the Fates of Indigenous Peoples

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P Readings Part 2 “Moral Debates on the Conquest of the Americas”
  • Historical Analysis Prep Debates over Indigenous Peoples
Wednesday
25 October

Colonial Economics

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P: ch 4 “The Iberian’s New World” 96-125
  • Peter Bakewell, “Mining Mountains” (arp)
  • LA&P Readings: Section 3 “Fact Finding for the King”
  • Historical Analysis Prep Colonial Economics
  • Post a full draft of your Wikipedia article.
Friday
27 October

Week 9 Wikipedia Assignments

  • This week, you’ll focus on finishing your full draft of your Wikipedia article (due Wednesday, 10/25), and editing/peer reviewing your assigned articles. (due Friday, 10/27).

Week 10: Colonial economics


Monday
30 October

Pirates & Privateers

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P Readings: Section 8 “Pirates and Contraband”
  • Marcus Rediker “The Seaman as Pirate” (arp)
  • HumTrad #13 Victorina Loza
  • Historical Analysis Prep Pirates & Privateers
Wednesday
1 November

Indians & Ladinos

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P: “The Amerindians’ Changing World” 126-154
  • LA&P Readings: Section 4 “Native Communities in the Spanish Empire”
  • HumTrad: #10 Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
  • Historical Analysis Prep Indians & Ladinos
Friday
3 November

Week 10 Wikipedia Assignments:


Week 11: Hierarchies of Race & Gender


Monday
6 November

Plantation Slavery

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P: “A New People & Their World” 155-185
  • LA&P Readings: Section 6 “Slavery in Colonial Brazil”
  • Slave Revolution “Documents Part 1: The French Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century”
  • HumTrad #8 Zumbi of Palmares
  • Historical Analysis Prep Plantation Slavery
Wednesday
8 November

Gender & Racial Hierarchies

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P: “A New People & Their World (continued)” 163-185
  • LA&P Readings: Section #8 “Life in Colonial Convents”
  • Historical Analysis Prep Gender & Racial Hierarchies
Friday
10 November

Audio Slideshow Storyboard Due

  • Upload to Moodle as a pdf file by noon.

Week 12: Reforms & Revolution


Monday
13 November

The Bourbon Reforms

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P: “The Shifting Fortunes of Colonial Empires” 186-215
  • Human Trad:
  • HumTrad:  #12 Pedro de Ayarza & #15 Juan Barbarín
  • Historical Analysis Prep The Bourbon Reforms
Wednesday
15 November

The Haitian Revolution

To complete for today’s class:


Week 13: The Haitian Revolution


Monday
20 November

The Haitian Revolution: Emancipation

To complete for today’s class:

  • Slave Revolution: “From Slave Revolution to Emancipation” 86-156, “The Haitian Declaration of Independence” & “The Haitian Constitution” 188-196
  • Blog  Post By Sunday night (11/19): Post a thoughtful historical discussion question – and your answer, supported by the primary source documents – to our course blog.  (note: no HAP sheet for today)
Thursday
23 November
Thanksgiving

Week 14: Colonial Crisis


Monday
27 November

Enlightenment Latin America

**Colonial LA Final Exam Review Handout FA17**

To complete for today’s class:

  • Robin Blackburn, “Haiti, Slavery, and the Age of the Democratic Revolution” (arp)
  • LA&P Readings: Section 11 “The Enlightenment Comes to Latin America”
  • Historical Analysis Prep Enlightenment Latin America
Wednesday
29 November

Fall of the Spanish Monarchy & Colonial Responses

To complete for today’s class:

  • LA&P: “The New Nations of Latin America” 216-241
  • Simón Bolívar “The Jamaica Letter” (arp)
  • LA&P Reading: Section 12 “Mexican Independence”
  • Historical Analysis Prep Fall of the Monarchy
Thursday
30 November
Material Culture Audio Slideshow Due: Share the YouTube link to your project on Moodle by noon.

Week 15: Race & Nation


Monday
4 December

Movements for Independence: Colonial Lives

To complete for today’s class:

Wednesday
6 December

Race & Nation in 19th c Latin America

**Course Evaluations – please bring a laptop/device to class**

To complete for today’s class:

  • Emilia Viotti da Costa “Politics and Society in Brazilian Independence” (arp)
  • Aline Helg, “Simón Bolivar and the Specter of Pardocracia,” Journal of Latin American Studies (2003) (arp)
  • Historical Analysis Prep Race & Nation in 19th c Latin America


 Final Exam: Thursday, December 14th at 2pm:  2 Takehome essays, in-class short answer