CLACS Summer Teacher Institute
Essential Themes in Latin American History
for Teaching World History
UW-Milwaukee
July 6-8, 2015
Monday, July 6
Creating Colonial Society
8:30
Continental Breakfast
9:00
Welcome and Introductions
9:15
Questions of Conquest
Seth Meisel, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Primary Documents on the Conquest of Mexico
o Cholulan Perspective
o Mexica Perspective
o Cortes Perspective
o Diaz del Castillo Perspective
10:30 Comparative Perspectives: Peru
Seth Meisel
 The Great Inca Rebellion (PBS, 2012)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/great-inca-rebellion.html
10:45 Break
11:00 Atlantic Exchanges
Seth Meisel
 The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
12:15 Lunch
1:15
Tira de Santa Catarina Ixtepeji
Aims McGuinness, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
2:30
Roundtable: Colonial society
Group
3:15
Americas Award collection
3:45
Wrap up
Tuesday, July 7
Nationhood and the Global Economy
8:30
Continental Breakfast
9:00
Integrating Latin America in World History
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
10:00 Teaching AP World History in Latin America
Tony Graziano, Lincoln School, Medellin, Colombia
10:45 Break
11:00 Nationalism, Motherhood, and Women's Rights in Brazil, Egypt, and Japan
(1890s-1930s)
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
12:00 Lunch
1:15
Panama and the Gold Rush
Aims McGuinness
2:30
Teaching AP World History in Latin America
Tony Graziano
3:30
Maps and World History
AGLS
4:30
Closing Remarks
6:00
Optional Dinner, Cempazuchi, 1205 E. Brady Street, 414-291-5233,
www.cempazuchi.com
Wednesday, July 8
The Cold War in Latin America
8:30
Continental Breakfast
9:00
Welcome and Introductions
9:30
What is the Cold War? What Role did Latin America play in the Cold War?
Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Rabe, Stephen, “The United State and Latin America: Cold War Chronology,” in
The Killing Zone. The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America, New
York: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. xi-xxiv and Chapter 2 “The Kennan
Corollary,” pp. 21-35.
Peter H. Smith, “Making Friends” in Talons of the Eagle. Latin America, the
United States, and the World, New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 134150.
George Kennan, Excerpts from his Report on Latin America, from Michael LaRosa
and Frank O. Mora, eds. Neighborly Adversaries, Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 1999, pp. 177-188.
Salvador Allende’s 1972 Speech to the United Nations:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/allende/1972/december/04.htm
10:00 National Security Archive Documents
10:30 Guatemala, 1954
 Arbenz, & the CIA, Guatemala 1950s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb7XaF1rs1E 7:24 minutes
 U.S. Newsreel Clips on Guatemala,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4trLK4NDWM
10:50 Break
11:00 Decolonization: The Case of Puerto Rico
Margaret Power
12:15 Lunch
1:15
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Gender and the Cold War
Margaret Power
Video Clip: “In Women’s Hands” from the Americas series.
Power, Margaret, “The Engendering of Anti-Communism and Fear in Chile’s 1964
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Presidential Election,“ Diplomatic History, November 2008.
Power, Margaret, “Poder Femenino and the Anti-Allende Women’s
Movement,” in Right-Wing Women in Chile. Feminine Power and the
Struggle against Allende, University Park: Penn State University Press, 2002.
2:30
CLACS resources for Latin America and World History
3:15
Closing Remarks