American History Survey – HST 1
Mt. San Antonio College
Spring 2012
Dr. Leleua Loupe Office Hours: By appointment
11:45 – 12:45 M/W 26B -2481B
** I will only respond to e-mails from the above account. I will not respond to e-mails on the campus e-mail.
United States History 1 Memorial History of America
8:30 – 9:55 M/W Section CRN# 41136 Meets in Room 26A - 1831
United States History 1 Memorial History of America Section
10:15 – 11:40 M/W Section CRN#41144 Meets in Room 26A - 1831
Course Description
This course is an overview of American history beginning with an introduction to the diverse cultures of pre-contact America and ending in the Twenty first century. Social, political, economic developments will be emphasized and students will confront subjects that deal with race, class and gender relations throughout American history. We will also examine the historiography of major historical events and issues, historical accuracy and myth making in American Popular history.
Goals and Objectives
1. To follow directions, be accountable and responsible for learning the information shared in class including reading assignments, audio and visual resources.
2. To understand critically the historical development of American institutions and values and their impact on the individual and collective lives of Americans.
3. To asses critically how the Constitution of the United States and government under the Constitution have shaped American democracy and contemporary American society.
4. To differentiate among changes in the American constitutional government over time.
5. To understand critically the political culture of citizen participation, including political parties, pressure groups, public opinion, and the electoral process.
6. To recognize the significance of important cultural, intellectual, moral, and political struggles that have shaped contemporary American society.
7. To recognize the significance of the contributions of various ethnic and gender groups to American history, political institutions, and values within contexts of cultural accommodation and resistance.
Required Texts
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
Red Eagle, Phillip H. Red Earth: A Vietnam Warrior’s Journey Salt Publishing, 2007
Loewen, James, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Text Books Got Wrong
References
The African Presence in Ancient America parts 1 – 5 (available on youtube.com)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTycT8mnOMs
We Shall Remain Series available on PBS.org for free viewing
Course Requirements
Exam 1 25%
Exam 2 25%
Participation 15%
Attendance 10%
Assignments 25%
What to expect in Lecture: A combination of lecture, video and discussion
Quizzes
Quizzes will cover the lecture material for the previous week, and/or reading assignments from the previous or current week.
Reading Assignments:
I expect students to complete readings BEFORE the class for which I list them. You are responsible for summarizing and analyzing the reading each week in preparation for discussion.
Academic Dishonesty: All students are expected to do the work for this course with honesty and integrity. To do otherwise is to break one’s implicit contract with the instructors or with one’s fellow and sister students. Anyone who cheats on an examination in any way, or who submits work that is not wholly his or her own work, will FAIL THIS COURSE in its entirety.
Classroom Management: ELECTRONICS ARE PROHIBITED. If I find a student using any kind of electronic device you will be asked to leave for the day, upon a third classroom removal I will ask the Dean to intervene. Points will be deducted from your participation grade as I decide is appropriate. If you are tardy or late to class I will also deduct participation points at my discretion. IF YOU DO NOT ATTEND CLASS and COMPLETE ASSIGNED COURSE WORK, YOU WILL NOT PASS. I will drop students from class for excessive absences.
Common Types of Disruptive Classroom Behavior that you may be penalized for:
• Grandstanding: Use the classroom for themselves by monopolizing class discussion, speaking protractedly and bombastically on favorite subjects with no regard to relevancy to the discussion.
• Sleeping in Class: While passively disruptive, it sends a message to the other students about the quality of the class or teaching. It is disrespectful to the instructor and the other students.
• Prolonged Chattering: Small cliques of 2-3 students who engage in private conversations or pass notes to each other.
• Excessive Lateness: Students who not only come in late, but make an entrance speaking to friends, walking in front of the professor, arranging their belongings.
• Noisy Electric Devices: Beepers and pagers going off in class or students talking on the telephone during the class.
• Disputing the Instructor’s Authority or Expertise: Students may be disappointed or frustrated over a grade and may debunk or devalue the instructor’s judgment, authority, and expertise. This may take the form of comments in the class or memos to department chair or dean.
If you display any of the above behavior I may ask you to leave the class for the day, week, or permanently or deduct points or value from your final grade.
Late Policy: I Will Not Accept Late Work
Reading and Writing Assignments: I expect students to complete readings BEFORE the class for which I list them. For discussion identify the thesis and main points of the chapter.
Grading Papers/Exams: I will respond to e-mails during office hours. I require a 2 week turn-around time to return papers back to you. I may respond more frequently and get your papers back to you sooner but you can expect me to be available and respond to your inquiries as explained above.
Exams: Unless you have pre-arranged an alternative test with me NO MAKE UP EXAMS will be allowed after exams have been taken by the class unless PRE-ARRANGED with me.
What material you can expect to be covered each week:
Week 1 Monday, February 27, 2012 & Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Introduction to Class
Theme: Pre-contact America
Lecture: Peopling of America
Video: More Than Bows and Arrows Worksheet
Discussion: Loewen, “The True Importance of Christopher Columbus”
Study Guide
Week 2 March 5, May 7, 2012
Theme: European Contact
Lecture: “Explorers, Conquistadors and Saviors” part I and Part II
Video: The Canary Effect/We Still Remain Series V. 1 Worksheet
Discussion: Zinn, “Indians, Columbus and Human Progress” Study Guide
Week 3 March 12 & 14, 2012
Theme: Colonial American Expansion
Lecture: Colonial America and Racial Slavery
Video: Terrible Transformation Worksheet
Discussion: Zinn, “Drawing the Color Line” & “People of Mean and Vile
Condition,” Loewen, “The Truth About the First Thanksgiving” Study
Guides
Week 4 March 19 & 21, 2012
Theme: Revolutionary America
Lecture: Towards Revolution
Video: Midwives Tale Worksheet
Discussion: Zinn, “Tyranny is Tyranny” and “A Kind of Revolution”
Week 5 March 26 & 28, 2012
Theme: Post Revolution and Expansion
Lecture: The New Republic
Video: PBS Trail of Tears Episode 3 Worksheet
Discussion: Zinn, “The Intimately Oppressed” & “As Long as the Grass
Grows and River Runs,” Loewen, “Red Eyes”
Week 6 April 2 & 4, 2012
Theme: Industrial and Market Revolution
Lecture: The Market Revolution & Revolt and Reform
Video: One woman One Vote Part I/History of Sex/link on blackboard
Discussion: Zinn, “Robber Barons and Rebels,” Loewen, “Gone with the
Wind: The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks”
Week 7 April 9 & 11, 2012
Theme: Antebellum South and Gold Rush California
Lecture: Slavery in the South and California
Discussion: Zinn, “We Take Nothing by Conquest Thank God,” Loewen,
“The Invisibility of Anti-racism in American History Textbooks”
Week 8 April 16 & 18, 2012
Theme: The Abandonment of Reconstruction
Lecture: Road to Secession/Reconstruction
Video: Africans in the Americas v. 4 worksheet
Discussion: Zinn, “Slavery without Submission, Emancipation without
Freedom” & “The Other Civil War”
Week 9 April 23 & 25, 2012
Midterm: In class (Monday)
Bring Scantron 882
Journal Due minimum of 4 worksheets Initial _____
Week 10 April 30 & May 2, 2012
Theme: Post Reconstruction/ American Imperialism abroad
Lecture: Quest For Empire
Video: Savage Acts
Discussion: Zinn, “Empire and the People” & “The Socialist Challenge”
Week 11 May 7 & 9, 2012
Theme: Wilson and the Great War & Great Depression
Lecture: The Great War at Home and Abroad
Video: The Great War Clips, Armenian Genocide
Discussion: Zinn, “Self Help in Hard Times” & “War is the Health of the
State” study guides
Week 12 May 14 & 16, 2012
Theme: World War II at Home and Abroad
Lecture: War at Home & Abroad
Video: Zoot Suit Riots
Discussion: Zinn, “A Peoples War?” Part I Study Guide; Loewen,
“Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero Making” & “Land of
Opportunity”
Week 13 May 21& 23, 2012
Lecture: Civil Rights
Theme: Post WWII and the Rise of Civil Rights
Video/CD: Citizen King/ Bobby Seale and the Black Panther Party
Discussion: Zinn, “Or Does it Explode?” & Loewen, “Watching Big
Brother”
Journal Due minimum of 4 worksheets Initial _____
Week 14 May 28 & 30, 2012
Theme: “Cold War” containment at Home
Lecture: Cold War
Video: Fidel/Crisis in America
Discussion: Zinn, “A Peoples War?” Part II
Have Phillip Red Eagle read by Monday
Week 15 June 4 & 6, 2012
Theme: Vietnam
Lecture: Vietnam
Video: documentary clips/Winter soldier
Discussion: Zinn, “The Impossible Victory, Vietnam” & “Surprises”,
Loewen, “Vietnam.” Red Eagle
Zinn, “Are the 70s Under Control,” “Carter-Reagan-Bush,”
Week 16 June 11 & 13, 2012
8:30 M/W Final Exam Monday, June 11, 2012 7:30 AM -10
10:15 M/W Final Exam Wednesday, June 13 7:30 AM - 10
Video Links:
Pre-Contact
1. More Than Bows and Arrows
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/more_than_bows_arrows/player.html
2.Burning Times – Colonization in Europe, pre-contact http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/burning_times/player.html
3. Crossing the Rainbow Bridge: Chumash & Hawaiian trans Oceanic travel
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/crossing_the_rainbow_bridge/player.html
Colonization
1. Africans in the Americas: Terrible Transformation
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/1450_1750_the_terrible_transformation/player.html
2. Colonization of NA – English settlements
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/colonization_of_NA_english_settlements_pt1/player.html
3. Colonization of NA – Spanish Settlements
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/colonization_of_NA_spanish_settlements/player.html
4. Colonization of NA – English Part II
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/colonization_of_north_america/player.html
Revolutionary America
1. Midwives Tale
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/midwives_tales/player.html
2. 1750-1805 Revolution Africans in America
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/1750-1805_revolution_africans_in_america/player.html
Market and Industrial revolution
1. One Woman/One Vote
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/one_woman_one_vote/player.html
2. History of Sex in the West
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/history_of_sex_west/player.html
Westward Expansion
1. Chinese in the Frontier West
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/chinese_in_the_frontier_west/player.html
2. The West
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_west/player.html
3. Underground Railroad
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/underground_railroad/player.html
Post Reconstruction
1. The Black Press
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_black_press/player.html
Imperialism
1. Savage Acts: http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/savage_acts/player.html
2. Guilded Age
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_guilded_age/player.html
The Progressive Era
1. Progressive era
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/one_progressive_era/player.html
The Great War
1. The Great War Slaughter
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_great_war_slaughter/player.html
2. The Great War Total War
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_great_war_total_war/player.html
The Great Depression
1. The Great Depression
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_great_depression/player.html
2. Roaring Twenties
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_roaring_twenties/player.html
World War II
1. Navajo Code Talkers
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/navajo_code_talkers/player.html
2. Zoot Suit Riots
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/zoot_suit_riots/player.html
Cold War
Fidel: The Untold Story
American Cultural History: Racism
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/Leleua_Loupe/american_cultural_history_racism/player.html
El Che
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/Leleua_Loupe/el_che/player.html
Vietnam
The Fog of War
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/Leleua_Loupe/the_fog_of_war/player.html
Post WWII & Civil Rights
1. Citizen King
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/citizen_king/player.html
Jocelyn Aragon
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1/14/2011
Regan
Montoya, John
Professor Loupe, Here are your video presentation links: http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/burning_times/player.html http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/colonization_of_north_america/player.html http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/crisis_in_america/player.html
Tue 8/16
Regan Administration
1. Crisis in America Propaganda Film- revival of the cold war
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/crisis_in_america/player.html
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/citizen_king/player.html
Jocelyn Aragon
------Forwarded message ------From: Jocelyn Aragon <> Date: Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:43 PM Subject: leleua_loupe links To: "Abad, Timothy" <> here are your links : http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/citizen_king/player.html
1/14/2011
Kevin Lam
Here are your links: Colonization of North America: Spanish Settlements http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/colonization_of_NA_spanish_settlements/player.html Colonization of North America: English Settlements http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/colonization_of_NA_english_settlements_pt1/player.html
1/12/2011