Note: Schedule is subject to change. Please be sure to check this site regularly for the most up-to-date listing of reading assignments.
LAST UPDATED: March 25, 2016
| Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment |
| Tues., Jan. 19 | Introduction: What is Native American history? | Richter, Facing East, 1-10; Restall, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), xii-xix (Bb) | |
| Fri., Jan. 22 | The Power of Names | James H. Merrell, “Second Thoughts on Colonial Historians and American Historians,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 69, no. 3 (2012): 451-512 | |
| Tues., Jan. 26 | 1491: American Ecology | Alfred W. Crosby, “Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon,” (Bb); Jane Mt.Pleasant, “A New Paradigm for Pre-Columbian Agriculture in North America,” Early American Studies 13, no. 2 (2015): 374-412 | MONDAY 1/25: Blog post (Introduction) |
| Fri., Jan. 29 | First Encounters | Richter, Facing East, 11-40; Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America, 4th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), “Iberia and America Before the Conquest,” 1-23 (Bb) | |
| Tues., Feb. 2 | The Native Experience of Contact | Richter, Facing East, 41-109 | |
| Fri., Feb. 5 | SNOW DAY | ||
| Tues., Feb. 9 | Using Material Objects in Native American History | Visit by Emily Pierce Rose, Peabody Museum; Daniel Waugh, “Material Culture / Objects,” World History Sources: Unpacking Evidence; FAQ on Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | Tuesday, 2/9: Blog post (Timeline #1) |
| Fri., Feb. 12 | Conquistadores in a New World | Schwartz, Victors and Vanquished, 1-99 | |
| Tues., Feb. 16 | The Problem of Native Communication | Richter, Facing East, 110-50; Restall, Seven Myths, 77-99 (Bb) | |
| Fri., Feb. 19 | Creating a Narrative | Schwartz, Victors and Vanquished, 100-244 | |
| Tues., Feb. 23 | Native Americans, Africans, and the Creation of Race #BlackLivesMatter |
Rebecca Anne Goetz, “Indian Slavery: An Atlantic and Hemispheric Problem,” History Compass (2016): 1-12 (Bb); Brett Rushforth, Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous & Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Chapel Hill, NC: OIEAHC, University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 135-92 (Bb) | MONDAY, 2/22: Blog post (Material Object #1) |
| Fri., Feb. 26 | Native Americans, Africans, and the Creation of Race #BlackLivesMatter |
Ilona Katzew, Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 39-61 (Bb); Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches & Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill: OIEAHC, University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 42-74 (Bb) | |
| Tues., Mar. 1 | Creating Christians | Allan Greer, ed., The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000), 37-61 | |
| Fri., Mar. 4 | Religion and Native-European Contact | In-class film: Black Robe | Narrative History due |
| Tues., Mar. 8 | The Andean Empire of the Inca | Yupanqui, History of How the Spaniards Arrived in Peru | MONDAY, 3/7: Blog post (Film response) |
| Fri., Mar. 11 | Narrating Conflict in the Andes | Yupanqui, History of How the Spaniards Arrived in Peru | |
| Tues., Mar. 15 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| Fri., Mar. 18 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| Tues., Mar. 22 | Encounters in Trade: The Frontier | Richter, Facing East, 151-88; Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 94-141 (Bb) | |
| Fri., Mar. 25 | Encounters in Trade: Urban Life | Jane E. Mangan, Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005), 76-105 (Bb) | |
| Tues., Mar. 29 | Diplomacy and Conflict on the Frontier | Andrew C. Lipman, “Murder on the Saltwater Frontier: The Death of John Oldham,” Early American Studies 9, no. 2 (2011): 268-294 | |
| Fri., Apr. 1 | Paper Meeting Conferences | Blog post (Timeline #2) | |
| Tues., Apr. 5 | Paper Meeting Conferences | ||
| Fri., Apr. 8 | Narrative History Workshop |
John Demos, “The High Place: Potosi,” Common-place 3, no. 4 (July 2003) | |
| Tues., Apr. 12 | Conflict and Persistence in Conquered Lands | Laura E. Matthew, Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 13-38 (Bb); Jeremy Ravi Mumford, Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of the Indians in the Colonial Andes (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012), 119-40 (Bb) | |
| Fri., Apr. 15 | Catholics and Conquistadors | In-class film: The Mission | Final draft of narrative history due |
| Tues., Apr. 19 | The Experience of Gender: Cultural Persistence |
Inga Clendinnen, “Yucatec Maya Women and the Spanish Conquest: Role and Ritual in Historical Reconstruction,” Journal of Social History 15, no. 3 (1982): 427-42; Caroline Dodds Pennock, “‘A Remarkably Patterned Life’: Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City,” Gender & History 23, no. 3 (2011): 528-46 | MONDAY, 4/18: Blog post (Film response) |
| Fri., Apr. 22 | The Experience of Gender: Regulating Sex | Ramón A. Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), 46-66, 71-94; Jennifer M. Spear, “Colonial Intimacies: Legislating Sex in French Louisiana,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 60, no. 1 (2003): 75-98 |
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| Tues., Apr. 26 | Atlantic Revolutions and Native America | Richter, Facing East, 189-236 | MONDAY, 4/25: Blog post (Material Object #2) |
| Fri., Apr. 29 | Native Reactions and Uprisings | Alberto Flores Galindo, “The Tupac Amaru Revolution and the Andean People,” in In Search of an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes, trans. Carlos Aguirre and Charles F. Walker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 80-105; Jeffrey Ostler, “‘To Extirpate the Indians’: An Indigenous Consciousness of Genocide in the Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes, 1750s-1810,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 72, no. 4 (2015): 587-622 | |
| Tues., May 3 | Remembering the Native American Past | Richter, Facing East, epilogue; Lepore, The Name of War, ch. 8 (Bb); Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America, 335-60 (Bb) | MONDAY, 5/1: Blog post (Historical memory) |
| Fri., May 6 | Conclusions |
Joseph M. Adelman 