Wednesday

21 August

Introductions & Setting the Stage

Digital History Setup:

• • Before class on Monday, sign up for a Voices blogging account. Remember to change your user name to your first name and final initial to protect your privacy.  More Voices tips here.
  • Sign up on Moodle for your day to write our Class Notes.
  • Sign up on Moodle for your book presentation.  First come, first served!

Monday

26 August

Africa & Iberia in 1491

*Colonial LA Map Quiz Handout FA2019 and Blank Map of Latin America

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Africa and Iberia in 1491
• LA&P “The Spanish & the Portuguese” 55-63
• John Thornton “The Birth of an Atlantic World” (arp – password protected additional reading page)
• “Coexistence in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms” (arp)
• Tips on Reading & Note taking for History Courses

Wednesday

28 August

European Ideas of the “Other”

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP European Ideas of the Other
• Anthony Grafton, “A Bound World: The Scholar’s Cosmos” from New Worlds, Ancient Texts (arp)

Monday

2 September

Environment & History

*Map Quiz at the beginning of class*

Student Book Presentation:

• Alfred W. Crosby.  The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Co., 1972)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Environment & History
• Charles C. Mann “1491” The Atlantic (March 2002)
• Arnold J. Bauer, “Introduction” & “The Material Landscape of Pre-Columbian America” from Goods, Power, History: Latin America’s Material Culture (arp)
• Carl Zimmer, “Who Were the Ancestors of Native Americans?” NYT
• Reference Maps for Historical Analysis Prep:
  • Vegetation Zones: South America & North America
  • Elevation
  • Average Temperatures in July and January
  • Annual Precipitation: South America (note: figures in millimeters.  Wooster averages 1019 mm annual rainfall and 760mm snow).
  • Satellite Images  Zoom in on the region of your choice!
• Blog Post: Write 2 paragraphs explaining what you’d most like to learn about Colonial Latin American History.  Please categorize your post “student research”. 

Wednesday

4 September

Mesoamerica before 1492

**First Reports Essay Guidelines**

Student Book Presentation:

• Katrina: Rosemary A. Joyce.  Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (Austin: U Texas P, 2000)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Mesoamerica before 1492
• LA&P: “Mesoamerica in the 15th Century” 31-40
• V&V “States in Conflict” 1-10″
• Nicholas St. Fleur, “Hidden Kingdoms of the Ancient Maya Revealed in a 3-D Laser Map” New York Times
• “The Aztec Stone” (arp)

Monday

9 September

South American Empires

Student Book Presentation:

• Carolyn Dean.  A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock (Durham: Duke UP, 2010)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP South American Empires
• 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.

Wednesday

11 September

Brazil & the Caribbean

Student Book Presentation:

• Andrew W.: Alida Metcalf.  Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500–1600 (Austin: U Texas Press, 2005)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Brazil & the Caribbean
• LA&P “The Diversity of American Peoples” 51-55
• Elisabeth Rosenthal.  “An Ancient Society Faces New Change in Brazil.”  New York Times Audio Slideshow. 25 July 2009. NOTE: this video requires flash.  I will show it again in class if you aren’t able to view it.
• Dr. Lawrence Waldron, “Society & Subsistence” & “Art & Iconography” Ancient Antilles. NOTE: I just updated the links.
• Blog Post: Identify two one potential research questions you’d like to investigate, explaining why they are important to better understand Colonial Latin America.  At this stage, this can be fairly broad – the goal is to start a conversation that will help you design a question that is meaningful to you AND well-supported with sources.  Categorize your post “Research”.

Monday

16 September

First Reports

Student Book Presentation:

• Surekha Davies.  Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters (Cambridge UP, 2016)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP First Reports
• 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)

Wednesday

18 September

Early Colonial Perspectives

Guest Presentation:Earlham’s Border Studies Program

Student Book Presentation:

• Christian: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra.  Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700  (New York: Oxford UP, 2016)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Early Colonial Perspectives HAP
• Pat Seed, “The Requirement: A Protocol for Conquest” (arp)
• Arnold J. Bauer, “Contact Goods” from Goods, Power, History: Latin America’s Material Culture (arp)
• V&V, “States in Conflict” 10-23

Wednesday

18 Sept.

7pm

Documentary: Undeterred

Gault Recital Hall – Scheide  7pm

https://vimeo.com/283563848

Friday

20 September

First Reports Essay Due

• Upload pdf to Moodle by 10 am.

Monday

23 September

Two Visions of Conquest

Student Book Presentation:

• Ryan: Camilla Townsend.  Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive (New York: Oxford UP, 2017)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Two Visions of Conquest
• V&V “Encounters” to “Tenochtitlan” 62-137

NOTE: Educational Technology is hosting a workshop tonight (Monday, September 23) at 7pm in Andrews Digital Studio on how to use Audacity, a free open-source audio editing software program.  This will make it easy to have a professional-sounding audio trace for your slideshow!  Sign up (and more info) here.

Wednesday

25 September

Tenochtitlán & Its Fall

**CLA Midterm Study Guide FA19**

Student Book Presentation:

• Abby: Barbara E. Mundy.  The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City (Austin: U Texas P, 2018)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Tenochtitlán & Its Fall
• V&V: “Things Fall Apart” to “The Siege” 138-198
• Library of Congress, The Conquest of Mexico Paintings
• Blog Post: Describe your revised/narrowed research idea, and explain why it is significant.  Include a list of at least one primary source, and 4-6 relevant (recent) secondary sources that you hope to incorporate.  Tag your post “Research.”

Monday

30 September

Fall of Tenochtitlán: Political, Social, & Environmental Consequences

Student Book Presentation:

• N.: Suzanne Alton.  A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2003)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Consequences
• Alfred Crosby, “The Columbian Exchange” History Now (June 2007) (arp)
• Historia Naturae (1635) Interactive (pick a section of interest to you to read and comment on in class – click “Explore”, pick a page, and then “Translate”)
• V&V “Aftermath” 199-230
• Before today’s class, comment on at least three classmates’ research blog posts.  Do you have questions that might help them refine their ideas?  Readings they should consider?  Other specific, helpful feedback?

NOTE: Educational Technology is hosting a workshop tonight (Monday, Septemver 30) at 7pm in Andrews Digital Studio on how to use Audacity, a free open-source audio editing software program.  This will make it easy to have a professional-sounding audio trace for your slideshow!  Sign up (and more info) here.

Wednesday

2 October

Midterm Exam

Monday

14 October

Colonial Institutions

Student Book Presentation:

• Jaz: Richard L. Kagan. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793 (New Haven: Yale UP, 2000)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Colonial Institutions
• LA&P “Building a Colonial Society” to “Conclusion” 77-95
• “Two Images from the Codex Osuna” (arp)
• “An encomendero’s establishment” & “An encomendero’s opinions” (arp)
• Richard Kagan “Projecting Order” (arp)

Wednesday

16 October

Conversion & Evangelization

Student Book Presentation:

• Jake: Linda A. Curcio-Nagy.  The Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity (Albuquerque: U New Mexico P, 2004)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Conversion & Evangelization HAP
• Gaspar Antonio Chi (arp)
• Orders Given to ‘the Twelve’ (1523) (arp)
• São Francisco Church, Salvador, Brazil
• Supplemental (quick overview of Catholicism by the Harvard Religious Literacy Project)

Friday

18 October

Research Prospectus Due

• Upload your Research Prospectus to Moodle by 10am.

Monday

21 October

Debates over the Fates of Indigenous Peoples

Student Book Presentation:

• Dylan: Lawrence A. Clayton.  Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Debates over the Fates of Indigenous Peoples HAP
• LA&P Readings Part 2 “Moral Debates on the Conquest of the Americas”

Wednesday

23 October

Colonial Economics

Student Book Presentation:

• Matt: Kris Lane. Potosí: The Silver City That Changed the World (Berkeley: U California P, 2019)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Colonial Economics
• 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”

Monday

28 October

Indians & Ladinos

**Research Project Storyboard Due by Noon**

Student Book Presentation:

• Zach: Laura E. Matthew.  Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2012)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Indians & Ladinos
• LA&P: “The Amerindians’ Changing World” 126-154
• LA&P Readings: Section 4 “Native Communities in the Spanish Empire”

NOTE: Your peer review assignments will be made immediately after today’s class.  You can access these on Moodle. You’ll read your peer’s storyboard and answer a series of questions designed to provide helpful, concrete feedback.

Wednesday

30 October

Pirates & Privateering

Student Book Presentation:

• Keara: Jesse Cromwell.  The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-century Venezuela (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2018)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Pirates & Privateering
• LA&P Readings: Section 8 “Pirates and Contraband”
• Marcus Rediker “The Seaman as Pirate” (arp)
• Peer Review of your two assigned storyboards on Moodle.

Monday

4 November

Plantation Slavery

Student Book Presentation:

• Emma: Walter Hawthorne.  From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1830 (New York: Cambridge UP, 2012)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Plantation Slavery
• LA&P: “A New People & Their World” 155-185
• LA&P Readings: Section 6 “Slavery in Colonial Brazil”
• Slave Revolution “The Documents Part 1: The French Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century”

Wednesday

6 November

Gender & Racial Hierarchies

**(optional) last day to submit your revised storyboard and revisions memo to me for feedback**

Student Book Presentation:

• Luca: Sonya Lipsett-Rivera.  The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico (Albuquerque: U New Mexico P, 2019)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Gender & Racial Hierarchies
• LA&P Readings: Section #8 “Life in Colonial Convents”

Monday

11 November

Bourbon Reforms

Student Book Presentation:

• Rachel: Mark W. Lentz.  Murder in Mérida, 1792: Violence, Factions, and the Law (Albuquerque: U New Mexico P, 2018)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Bourbon Reforms
• LA&P: “The Shifting Fortunes of Colonial Empires” 186-215
• Pedro de Ayarza (arp)
• Juan Barbarín (arp)

NOTE: Educational Technology is hosting a workshop tonight (Monday, November 11) at 7pm on how to use Audacity, a free open-source audio editing software program.  This will make it easy to have a professional-sounding audio trace for your slideshow!  Sign up (and more info) here.

Wednesday

13 November

Audio Slideshow Workshop

**Meeting in McCoy Computer Lab, Andrews Library LL1**

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Come to the workshop with an audio file of your script (mp3), images (jpg or png format), your Chicago-style list of images uses, and any additional music or sound effects you plan to incorporate.  Save these files on your OneDrive.  

Monday

18 November

Haiti & The Revolution

Student Book Presentation:

• Aleks: Stewart R. King.  Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue (Athens: U Georgia P, 2001)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Haitian Revolution
• Slave Revolution Part 1 “Introduction: Revolution, Emancipation, & Independence” & Documents section 2, “The Revolution Begins”
• For reference: Kona Shen’s History of Haiti Timeline

Wednesday

20 November

The Haitian Revolution: Emancipation

Student Book Presentation:

• Morgan: Julius Scott.  The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (Brooklyn: Verso, 2018)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Slave Revolution: Documents part 3 “From Slave Revolution to Emancipation”; from the War & Independence section “The Haitian Declaration of Independence” & “The Haitian Constitution”
• Blog Post By Tuesday 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)

Friday

22 November

Audio Slideshows Due

• Post YouTube url (web link) to Moodle by 10am.  Make sure that your video is “unlisted” or “public.”

Monday

25 November

Enlightenment Latin America

**Colonial LA Final Exam Review Handout FA19** and the Shoemaker article for essay #2: Shoemaker A Typology of Colonialism Perspectives 29-30

Student Book Presentation:

• Miki: Pablo F. Gómez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2017)

Work to complete before today’s class:

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

Wednesday

27 November

No Class – Thanksgiving Break

Monday

2 December

Fall of the Monarchies & Colonial Responses

Student Book Presentation:

• Brooks: John Tutino.  Mexico City, 1808: Power, Sovereignty and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution (Albuquerque: U New Mexico P, 2018)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Fall of the Monarchies
• LA&P: “The New Nations of Latin America” 216-241
• Simón Bolívar “The Jamaica Letter” (arp)
• LA&P Reading: Section 12 “Mexican Independence”

Wednesday

4 December

Race & Nation in 19th C Latin America

**Course Evaluations: Please complete these using the link I sent.  If 90% of you finish these by 4pm on Friday, I’ll add 1 point to your final exam scores.**

Student Book Presentation:

• Andrew S.: Marixa Lasso.  Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 (Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P, 2007)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• HAP Race & Nation
• 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)