Professor Diane Shaver Clemens 60 Evans Tuesday-Thursday 12:30-2:00pm

Professor Clemens: 642-1102 (message)
e-mail: athena1@socrates.berkeley.edu
Office hours, 3223 Dwinelle, Th 2:30-3:45pm

Course GSI’s: Kevin Adams (kevad@socrates.berkeley.edu), Ben Chapman (bchapman@boalthall.berkeley.edu), Lubna Qureshi (lubnaq@socrates.berkeley.edu)

History 16 e-mail group: history16@socrates.berkeley.edu
History 16 website: http://www.mip.Berkeley.EDU/classes/history16/

ASSIGNMENTS

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

History 16 examines the origins and growth of the United States within overlapping contexts. The course emphasizes issues of cultural encounters, racial and ethnic policies, and perceptions impacting the five major groups involved in this growth: Native Americans, European Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans.
As a survey course History 16 cannot be comprehensive: we focus on selected episodes from the Columbian outreach to the American conquest of the remnants of the Spanish Empire that concludes the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War (1898-1904).

SUBJECTS
1. THE VUNERABILITY OF THE AMERICAS TO OLD WORLD INCURSIONS: LONG TERM
ECOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL REASONS
2. THE COLUMBIAN VOYAGES THROUGH THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF MEXICO
3. EARLY SETTLEMENT: VIRGINIAN AND NEW ENGLAND COLONIES: INTRODUCTION OF SLAVERY
4. THE SEVEN YEARS WAR: A GREAT POWER CLASH ON THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT.
5. THE REVOLUTION AND THE CONSTITUTION: THEIR SOCIAL AND RACIAL IMPLICATIONS.
6. INDIAN REMOVAL: EASTERN PHASE TO 1840’S
7. ISSUES OF SLAVERY: AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE, AND THE GATHERING ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENTS
8. THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
9. ASIAN IMMIGRATION
10. ROAD TO CIVIL WAR AND AFTERMATH
11. THE PLAINS WARS
12. SPANISH AMERICAN AND PHILIPPINE WARS

REQUIREMENTS: ATTENDANCE at lectures and discussion sections is
mandatory; MIDTERM (15-20%); PAPER(s) ( amounting to approximately 10 pages in all) 15-20%) to be based on course texts or as approved by GSI; DISCUSSION SECTION (20-30%); FINAL (40%). Low grade in midterm can be discounted if later grades show distinct rising curve. Some assignments will expect you to be able to access course material--especially images--at the website.
Access to Image Archive of course website requires login from UCB domain account and is done fastest from campus ethernet linked sites.

Paper/Discussion grade will include a weekly measure of interactive student/instructor participation via on-line submission and response to various missions based on class materials--nature will vary according to section GSI.
Films and novels: movies and historical can enhance and challenge your view of issues raised in this course, certain of which your GSI may wish to use in her or his section assignments. A list of personal suggestions (additional references will be welcome) can be found at:
www.mip.Berkeley.EDU/classes/history16/briefings/Films(InformalReview).html
For how to approach a film review:
www.mip.berkeley.edu/classes/history16/diplomatic/130b-FilmReview.html
For how to work up a book review:
www.mip.berkeley.edu/classes/history16/diplomatic/130b-BookReview.html

MIDTERM approximately 7th week. Will cover reading and lecture material and themes thru the Seven Years War 80 minutes, in class.
Note: if you need to make special arrangements for your exam taking, please notify BOTH your TA and Professor Clemens well in advance

PAPER(s) DUE: The paper assignment(s) will be determined by discussion section TA's. In past years mini-papers have been based on course texts due in fourth week; one paper based on Douglass' Narrative due after midterm; one paper due near end of semester based on the Plains Wars text or on topic chosen in consultation with your TA. Movie reviews (e.g., Glory, Geronimo, Starship Troopers) and book reviews (e.g., The Forest and the Fort, The Woman Warrior, The Killer Angels), and website research, such as Jim Zwick's the "White Man's Burden" link, http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/kipling/ have been profitable in the past

FINAL EXAM: 3 hours based on reading, lectures, and visual materials.
Final Exam Group 14: Wednesday May 21, 2003, 5-8pm

General grade breakdown: midterm 15-20%, papers 15-20%, section and on-line participation 20-30%% , final 40%.

NOTE: Unexcused absences will impact your grade, especially your section grade. If
you must miss a discussion section please inform your section leader and discuss possible
make-up options. If personal exigencies impose significant absences it is imperative you
inform your TA or Professor AT THE TIME so that an appropriate solution can be
worked out.

INCOMPLETES: An incomplete grade may be assigned at the discretion of the course
instructor provided at least 50% of the course work has been completed with a passing
grade. Incompletes must be made up within a year or they revert to an F. Contact the
History Department for the dates fixed for make-up exams. Incompletes are rife with
administrative hazard and are strongly discouraged.

TEXTBOOKS (Available at ASUC, Campus Textbook Exchange, and other local bookstores)

1. Gary Nash, Julie Roy Jeffrey, et. al., The American People: Creating a Nation and a
People (Brief Third Edition), New York: Longman, 2000

2. Diane Clemens and Richard Allen eds., The Forging of America, 1492-1904: A Cultural Diversity Reader, New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1992

3. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave:
Written by Himself, ed. David W. Blight, Boston, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press,
1993

4. Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Boston and New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993

5. G. Colin Calloway, ed, Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indians Views of How
the West was Lost, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, l996.

COMMENT ON TEXTS: The compact Bedford Books series NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS and OUR HEARTS FELL TO THE GROUND supply primary historical documents and secondary essays placing these documents within their historical context. Douglass was a self-taught slave who escaped to freedom and became the foremost champion of African American rights in the19th century. His narrative provides an entry into key issues of slavery and abolition in 19th century America. HEARTS focuses on initial encounters with, significant resistance to, and accommodation within the expanding US experienced by Sioux, Comanche, Cheyenne and other Great Plains groups, as they evolved over the time period c. 1790--1900.

THE FORGING OF AMERICA is an anthology chronologically organized. It provides specialized coverage of problems using primary documents, selection of representative voices, and scholarship from a variety of viewpoints. Along with the Bedford books it should be considered a research source for your papers. Its secondary material retains the original authors' apparatus of footnotes and references and you are encouraged to read them or at least look them over as examples of how historical research is conducted. It is suggested that you review the Reader's table of contents to see what set of materials might be appropriate for your interests in selecting paper topics.

A DIFFERENT MIRROR provides a narrative of American History in a comparative perspective which emphasizes the interactions between and among diverse cultural groups. It also furnishes material on such European 'ethnic' cultural groups as Irish Americans and Jewish Americans. The book is organized into short essays.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE is a clear and lively written college text affording an overview of the staples of American colonial and United States history to the present. It provides a full range of consideration of the ethnic, racial, social, and gender issues that concern modern historians of the United States. It is packaged with an atlas and map exercises since history and geography are inseparable.

NOTETAKING, HANDOUTS AND OUTLINES: The lecture materials do not necessarily explicate or overlap the reading assignments. You need to employ and continue to develop your note taking skills. Outlines will be available on line. It is suggested you download them since they are intended to aid you in organizing your notes by topic and order. Outlines are not a substitute for lecture content. Other supplemental handouts and background information material will also be posted on the course website. You are expected to read them when assigned. For your convenience and reference you should maintain a History 16 notebook or folder for this material. You should be prepared to furnish your notes to your TA for critiquing and suggestions. Outlines will be posted at: http://www.mip.Berkeley.EDU/classes/history16/also accessible via the Course Materials link on the History16 homepage Supplementary files, outlines, and some lecture material can be made available via the e-list history16@socrates.berkeley.edu at individual request.

COMPUTER ACCOUNTS: You need to have an e-mail address at which you can be reached. Class announcements and assignments are distributed by e-mail and you are responsible for checking your mail on a timely basis. UCLINK--GOOD External ISP’s-BAD. Hotmail, msn.com, yahoo, aol, are not as reliable as a UCB account (This is putting it mildly). Whether or not you have a computer with a modem, you are strongly urged to obtain a computer account which will give you access to local university networks and to the Internet. UCB is making an increasing number of terminals available in dormitory and micro-lab locations. For History 16, much of the above noted material, and additional commentary, and hopefully exchange and dialogue, will be available on the website or via the e-mail list.
The e-mail group, history16@socrates.berkeley.edu allows students with e-mail accounts to receive general class announcements and to transmit topics of general interest. To receive class e-mail provide us with your name and address or preferably send an e-mail request to us at athena1@socrates.berkeley.edu (Note, the "1" is the numeral one). A message sent to history16@socrates is visible to me and everyone else
on the list.

If you wish to communicate privately to me use the athena1@socrates.berkeley.edu address.


THE COURSE WEBSITE: www.mip.berkeley.edu/classes/history16/

You are encouraged to browse the site and become familiar with its various directories and files. The layered design is crafted by former H16 GSI, Dr. David Yaghoubian, (currently teaching History of the Modern Middle East) who is responsible for a number of UCB course web pages and whose craft reflects the heroic days of hand-entered html formatting. That is: you won’t find everything winking and blinking at you on the home page--click on the links, and then, click on the links. (Some of the links to other sites in the Links section are inactive and will be cleaned up)

The web site currently contains over 100 key images (some with accompanying text) in .jpg and .gif formats which can be downloaded and variously viewed at your leisure or cut and pasted into papers given the proper software and printer availability. Developing skills in how to interpret pictorial and iconographic historical material, that is, cartoons, paintings, and photographs for both their representational and ideological content is an important goal of the course.

Note: to see the large images in the Image Archive, click on the thumbnail small pictures. Some other images accessible from all ISP’s are posted in other directories.

The Briefings subdirectory under Course Materials on the website contains lecture outlines, some lecture notes, and a variety of issues and postings recently appearing on various professional e-mail lists, e.g, H-AMINDIAN, AZTLAN. These postings often contain the most up-to-date findings, opinions, and concerns of both scholars and informed members in specialized fields.

AGAIN PLEASE NOTE THAT THE IMAGE ARCHIVE OF THE WEBSITE IS ACCESSIBLE ONLY VIA A BERKELEY.EDU DOMAIN LOGIN. THE OTHER DIRECTORIES OF THIS SITE ARE OPEN TO ALL PROVIDERS (E.G., EARTHLINK, AOL).

To obtain a uclink e-mail account, go on line to http://www-uclink.berkeley.edu:20000/
For locations of campus computer facilities see: http://facility.berkeley.edu/gifs/map.gif
or http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/classes/history16/briefings/ComputerLabs.gif