Dr. Leleua Loupe
Leleualoupe@hotmail.com
American History Survey – HST 1
Mt. San Antonio College
Spring 2011
Office Hours: By appointment
** 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
11:30 – 12:55 MW Section #10 CRN# 40646 Meets in Room 26A - 1831
United States History 1 Memorial History of America Section
1:15 – 2:40 M/W Section #16 CRN#40654 Meets in Room 26A - 1821
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
Exam 2
25%
25%
Participation 15%
Attendance 10%
Assignments 25% Journals #1, 2, 3, 4
F:\Participation rubric.doc
What to expect in Lecture: A combination of lecture, video and 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.
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
Week 2
Monday, February 28, 2011, Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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
Monday, March 7, 2011, Wednesday, March 9, 2011
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 Monday, March 14, 2011 & Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Theme: Colonial American Expansion
Lecture:
Video:
Colonial America and Racial Slavery
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 Monday, March 21, 2011, Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Theme: Revolutionary America
Lecture: Towards Revolution
Video: Midwives Tale Worksheet

Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Discussion:
Zinn, “Tyranny is Tyranny” and “A Kind of Revolution”
Monday, March 28, 2011, Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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”
Monday, April 4, 2011, Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Theme: Industrial and Market Revolution
Lecture: The Market Revolution & Revolt and Reform
Video: One woman One Vote Part I/History of Sex
Discussion: Zinn, “Robber Barons and Rebels,” Loewen, “Gone with the
Wind: The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks”
Monday, April 11, 2011, Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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”
Monday, April 18, 2011, Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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”
Monday, April 25, 2011
Midterm Review & Study Guide
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Midterm: In class
Bring Scantron 882
Monday, May 2, 2011, Wednesday May 4, 2011
Theme: Post Reconstruction/ American Imperialism abroad
Lecture: Quest For Empire
Video: Savage Acts
Discussion:
Zinn, “Empire and the People” & “The Socialist Challenge”

Week 11 Monday, May 9, 2011, Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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 Monday, 16, 2011, Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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 Monday, May 23, 2011, Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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”
Week 14 Monday, May 30, 2011
Memorial Day – No Class
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Theme: “Cold War” containment at Home
Lecture: Cold War
Video: Fidel/Crisis in America
Discussion: Zinn, “A Peoples War?” Part II
Week 15 Monday, June 6, 2011, Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Theme: Vietnam
Lecture: Vietnam
Video: documentary clips/Winter soldier
Discussion: Zinn, “The Impossible Victory, Vietnam” & “Surprises”,
Loewen, “Vietnam.”
Have Phillip Red Eagle read by Monday
Lecture: The Reagan Revolution
Audio/Video: “Crisis in America” Letter to the President” & Chris
Hedges
Discussion: Zinn, “Are the 70s Under Control,” “Carter-Reagan-Bush,”

Week 16 Final Examinations
See final exam schedule online for date and time
Mtsac.edu