History of U.S. – HST 1
Mount San Antonio College
Spring 2014
Office: 26B-2481B Phone: 951-990-1853 Dr. Leleua Loupe
Web page: leleualoupe.com
Email: Leleualoupe@hotmail.com
Hours: T 6-7PM & by appointment
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** I will only respond to e-mails from the above account on a daily basis. I will not respond to emails on the campus e-mail on a consistent basis.
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History of U.S. - 42329 - HIST 1 – 02 8-9:25 AM T/TH 26A-1831
History of U.S - 42999 – HIST 1 – 38 9:45 – 11:10 T/TH
26D 2421
History of U.S. - 42362 - HIST 1 – 35 7 – 10:10 PM T 26D-G431
Course Description
This course is an overview of American history beginning with an introduction to 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
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To follow directions, be accountable and responsible for learning the information shared in class including reading assignments, audio and visual resources.
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To understand critically the historical development of American institutions and values and their impact on the individual and collective lives of Americans.
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Recognize the significance of cultural, intellectual, ethical, economic, and political struggles that have shaped American society over time.
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Understand critically the historical development of American institutions and values and their impact on the individual and collective lives of Americans.
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Recognize the significance of the interaction of ethnic and other social groups to the historical development of American society, institutions, and values within contexts of accommodation and resistance.
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Understand critically how government under the Constitution of the United States has shaped American society.
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Critically situate changes in American society within the context of global events.
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Analyze primary source materials, engage in critical and constructive discussions, and communicate effectively in writing.
Required Texts
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Howard Zinn,
A People’s History of the United States, Abridged Teaching Edition
ISBN 978-1-56584-826-9 (paper back) http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
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Loewen, James, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Text
Books Got Wrong ISBN 978-0-7432-9628-1(paper back)
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Redeagle, Phillip, Red Earth: Journey of a Vietnam Warrior , Salt Publications, 2008
Course Requirements
Midterm
Journal
Final Exam
25%
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Participation/attendance 25% Discussion in class
I will not use the plus/minus grading system
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F:\Participation rubric.doc
Journal learning and practicing how to read critically and take notes is critical in mastering the material and doing well in this class. Download the Critical Reading, Thinking and Writing Guide for reference. Keep a Journal of your note taking that you can turn into me for the midterm and final exam for review and grading. You may use ten pages of notes for the midterm and final.
What to expect in Lecture: A combination of lecture, video and discussion. Exam questions will be derived from lectures predominately and several from videos and chapters discussed in class. You may utilize any of the study guides that I provide to better prepare.
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 and exams.
Make-up Policy: 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. Do Not Ask. Initial _____
Academic Integrity: 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
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fellow and sister students. Accordingly, 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.
Common Types of Disruptive Classroom Behavior that you may be penalized for:
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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.
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. IF YOU DO NOT ATTEND CLASS and COMPLETE
ASSIGNED COURSE WORK, YOU WILL NOT PASS.
I will drop students from class for excessive absences.
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Reading and Writing Assignments: I expect students to complete readings and any related assignments, BEFORE the class for which I list them. Be prepared to discuss each class reading assignment in class.
Grading Exams: I will respond to e-mails during office hours. I require a 2 week turn-around time to return papers or exams. 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.
If you require more written feedback on your papers or exams than given, please notify me and set up an appointment.
Emergency Policy: go to http://inside.mtsac.edu/departments/admin/risk/emergencypreparedness.html
Disabled Student Policy: go to https://www.mtsac.edu/dsps/
What material you can expect to be covered each week:
Week 1 February 24 – 27, 2014
Introduction to Class & Vark.com homework (how do you learn?)
Theme: Pre-contact America
Lecture: Peopling of America
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Video: More than Bows and Arrows
Discussion: Loewen, “The True Importance of Christopher Columbus,”
Zinn, “Indians, Columbus and Human Progress” Study Guide
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Complete before the second class meeting for the week
Week 2 March 3 – 6, 2014
Theme: European Contact
Lecture: “Explorers, Conquistadors and Saviors” part I
Video: The Canary Effect / The First Settlement
Discussion: Loewen, “The True Importance of Christopher Columbus,”
Zinn, “Indians, Columbus and Human Progress” Study Guide
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Complete all reading assignments before the first class meeting each week
Week 3 March 10 – 13, 2014
Theme: European Contact
Lecture:
“Explorers, Conquistadors and Saviors” Part II
Video: We Shall Remain Series - Episode 1 on PBS
Week 4
Video Worksheet: After the Mayflower Worksheet
Discussion:
Condition,” Loewen, “The Truth about the First Thanksgiving,”
Loewen, “Red Eyes”
March 17-20, 2014
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
Week 5 March 24-27, 2014
Theme: Revolutionary America
Lecture: Towards Revolution
Video: Midwives Tale Worksheet
Discussion:
Zinn, “Tyranny is Tyranny” and “A Kind of Revolution”
Week 6 March 31 – April 3, 2014
Theme: Post Revolution and Expansion
Lecture: The New Republic
Video: We Shall Remain Series - Episode 2 on PBS
Video Worksheet: Tecumseh's Vision Worksheet
Discussion: Zinn, “The Intimately Oppressed” & “As Long as the Grass Grows
And River Runs”
Week 7 April 7-11, 2014
Theme: Industrial and Market Revolution
Lecture: 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
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Week 8
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Week 14
April 14-17, 2014
Midterm Exam : Bring scantron 886 & Journal for review
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”
April 21-24, 2014
Theme: The Abandonment of Reconstruction
Lecture: Road to Secession/Civil War & Reconstruction
Video: Birth of Nation/Africans in the Americas v. 4 Judgment Day
Video Worksheet: Africans in the Americas v. 4 worksheet
Discussion: Zinn, “Slavery without Submission, Emancipation without Freedom”
& “The Other Civil War”
April 28 – May1, 2014
Theme: Post Reconstruction/ American Imperialism abroad
Lecture: Quest For Empire/ Progressive Era
Video: Savage Acts
Discussion:
Zinn, “Empire and the People” & “The Socialist Challenge”
May 5 -8, 2014
Theme: Wilson and the Great War & Great Depression
Lecture: The Great War at Home and Abroad/ The Great Depression
Video: The Great War Clips, Armenian Genocide
Discussion:
Zinn, “Self Help in Hard Times” & “War is the Health of the State”
May 12-15 2014
Theme/Lecture: World War II at Home and Abroad & Cold War
Video: Zoot Suit Riots/Fidel/Crisis in America
Discussion : Zinn, A Peoples War? & Loewen, & “Land of
Opportunity” Study Guide, “Process of Hero Making”
May19-22, 2014
Theme: Post WWII and the Rise of Civil Rights
Lecture: African American Civil Rights
Video/CD: Citizen King/ Bobby Seale and the Black Panther Party
Discussion: Zinn, “Or Does it Explode?” & Loewen, “Watching Big Brother”
May 26-29, 2014
Theme: Vietnam
Lecture: Vietnam
Video: The Fog of War/Winter Soldier Vietnam
Discussion: Zinn, “The Impossible Victory, Vietnam” & “Surprises”, &
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Week 16
Red Eagle, Phillip H.
Red Earth: A Vietnam Warrior’s Journey
Week 15 June 2-5, 2014
Theme: Reagan Revolution
Discussion: Loewen Ch. 9; Zinn, “Are the 70s Under Control,” “Carter-Reagan-
Bush.”
Video: Winter Soldier Iraq & Afghanistan/ Crisis in America/Terrorism Theirs and ours
June 9-13, 2014 Final Examinations Bring scantron 886 & Journal for review
History of U.S. - 42329 - HIST 1 – 02 8-9:25 AM T/TH 26A-1831
History of U.S - 42999 – HIST 1 – 38 9:45 – 11:10 T/TH 26D 2421
History of U.S. - 42362 - HIST 1 – 35 7 – 10:10 PM T 26D-G431
You have read the syllabus and understand your responsibility as a student. You are accountable for the information, for learning the information, for managing the class material and for remembering to turn work in on time and be present for exams.
Name __________________________________________ Date__________________________
Video Links:
Pre-Contact
1. More Than Bows and Arrows http://distanceed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/more_than_bows_arrows/player.html
2.Burning Times – Colonization in Europe, pre-contact http://distanceed.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://distanceed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/1450_1750_the_terrible_transformation/player.
html
2. Colonization of NA – English settlements http://distanceed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/colonization_of_NA_english_settlements_pt1/pl ayer.html
3. Colonization of NA – Spanish Settlements http://distance-
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ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/colonization_of_NA_spanish_settlements/playe r.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://distanceed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/one_woman_one_vote/player.html
2. History of Sex in the West http://distanceed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/history_of_sex_west/player.html
Westward Expansion
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Chinese in the Frontier West http://distanceed.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://distanceed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/underground_railroad/player.html
Post Reconstruction
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The Black Press http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_black_press/player.html
Imperialism
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Savage Acts: http://distanceed.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
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Progressive era http://distanceed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/one_progressive_era/player.html
The Great War
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The Great War Slaughter http://distanceed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_great_war_slaughter/player.html
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The Great War Total War http://distanceed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_great_war_total_war/player.html
The Great Depression
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The Great Depression http://distanceed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_great_depression/player.html
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Roaring Twenties http://distanceed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/the_roaring_twenties/player.html
World War II
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Navajo Code Talkers http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/navajo_code_talkers/player.html
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Zoot Suit Riots http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/zoot_suit_riots/player.html
Cold War
Fidel: The Untold Story
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Post WWII & Civil Rights
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Citizen King http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/citizen_king/player.html
Regan Administration
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Crisis in America Propaganda Film- revival of the cold war http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/lelua_loupe/crisis_in_america/player.html
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