Course Schedule

 

Week 1: Introductions

Monday
January 13

Introduction

Course Setup:
  • If you do not have one already, please create a Voices blogging account.  Find more tips here.  Remember to change your user name to your first name and final initial to protect your privacy.
  • Wikipedia Project: If you do not have one already, create a Wikipedia account.  You can use any (appropriate) user name you like to preserve your privacy.  Accept my email invitation to join our class Wikipedia Portal. If you’re asked for a password, I’m sending it in the email.
Wednesday
January 15

Defining Latin America & Its Diaspora

*Map Quiz Guidelines LAUS SP2020*

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • Thomas Holloway “Latin America: What’s in a Name?” (password-protected additional readings page – arp)
  • Silvio Torres-Saillant and Nancy Kang “Race” from Keywords for Latina/o Studies (arp)
  • Rampolla, “Reading Actively in History”
  • Please read carefully and come to class with at least two discussion questions.
  • If you have not already, please create your  Voices blogging account and your Wikipedia account.  I’ll be asking for these in class today.
Friday
January 17

Historians & Historical Practice

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
Blog Post (Post by Sunday, January 19 at noon):
  • Write a short post introducing yourself to the class (being careful NOT to include your last name or other identifying information to protect your privacy.)  Looking at our syllabus, what are you most excited to learn about this semester?  Why?  Please categorize your post “Introductions”.

Week 2: The U.S. Considers Latin America

Monday
January 20

MLK Day of Service

  • No formal class meeting.  Participate in campus service and education events.
Blog Post:
  • By the end of the day on Monday, write a one-paragraph blog post describing your participation in the MLK Day of Service and Justice Dialogues.  Categorize  your post “MLK Day of Service.”
Wednesday
January 22

The U.S. Considers Latin America

Prepare Before Class Today:
  • Frederick Pike “Wild People in Wild Lands” (arp)
  • Josiah Strong “The Anglo Saxon & the World’s Future” (arp)
  • Rampolla “Working with Sources”
  • “They Say” and “Her Point Is” from They Say, I Say (arp)
  • Blog Post: Drawing on They Say, I Say, summarize the Pike and Strong readings.  What is the main argument? What evidence does each author use? How do you interpret these texts?  Make it clear where you’re summarizing, and where you’re incorporating your own analysis.
Friday
January 24

Research Workshop: Zotero & OhioLink

*Map Quiz*

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • Come to class with the latest version of Zotero already installed on your computer or device.  (Need help?  See the Quick Start Guide.). And the CoW libraries have an annotated guide if you’re having trouble.
  • Rampolla, “Plagiarism & How to Avoid It”
  • Wikipedia Week 2 Trainings: Adding Citations & Avoiding Plagiarism.  Add a citation to a course-related article.

Week 3: Latin America Considers the U.S.

Monday
27 January

Latin America Considers the United States

Before Class Today:
  • José Enrique Rodó Ariel (1900) (arp)
  • Simón Bolívar “Letter to Coronel Patrick Campbell” (1829) (arp)
  • Rampolla “Quoting & Documenting Sources”
  • “As He Himself Puts It” from They Say, I Say (arp)
  • Blog Post: These two primary sources by Rodó and Bolívar, although written over seventy years apart, both reflect on the relationship between Latin America and the United States. What common tropes do you see? What differences? Make sure to incorporate quotes (citing all page numbers).
  • Sign up for a time to come talk with me during office hours no later than Friday, February 7.
Wednesday
29 January

American Empire: Historical Context

*Primary Source Essay Guidelines*

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • American Empire: “Introduction” 1-32
  • Take notes on Hoganson’s argument and evidence.
Friday
31 January

Evaluating Wikipedia

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • Wikipedia Project Guidelines
  • Sadie Bergen, “Linking In: How Historians Are Countering Wikipedia’s Biases” Perspectives 2016
  • Week 3 Wikipedia Trainings: Evaluating Articles & Sources
  • Wikipedia “Good Articles in History“
  • Blog Post: Read the Wikipedia article for either “Latin America-United States Relations” or “History of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States.”  Alternatively, you can pick a Wikipedia related to your research project, if you’ve already identified what you’d like to work on.  For your blog post, write a 4-5 paragraph critique of your chosen article, considering the following questions:
    • What perspective does the article represent?
    • Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
    • Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
    • Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
    • Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
    • Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
    • Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
    •  Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
    • Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that should be added?
    • Write a blog post that critiques your chosen Wikipedia article.  As you read, consider the following questions (but don’t feel limited to these):
    •  Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
    • How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
    • Tag your post “Wikipedia.”
  • If you have not already, sign up to come see me ASAP.

Week 4: American Empire

Monday
3 February

American Empire: U.S. Interests

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • American Empire: Documents “The US in an Age of Empire” & “Missionary Endeavors”
Wednesday
5 February

American Empire: Cuba

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • American Empire: Documents “Co-opting the Cuban Revolution” & “Military Conduct”
  • Blog Post: Pick any of these primary sources to analyze in greater depth.   Use quotes to support your analysis.
Friday
7 February

American Empire: Race & Colonial Governance

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • American Empire: Documents “Colonial Governance” & “Race-Making in Colonial Context”

Week 5: Critiquing U.S. Imperialism

Monday
10 February

Peer Review: Primary Source Essay

  • Come to class with two printed copies of your primary source essay for peer review.
Wednesday
12 February

Historiography

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • McCook “The World Was My Garden” (arp)
  • Navarro-Rivera “The Imperial Enterprise and Educational Policies in Colonial Puerto Rico” (arp)
  • Rydell “The Pan-American Exposition: Buffalo 1901” (arp)
  • Blog Post: write research annotations for your choice of two of these secondary sources.
Friday
14 February

Digital History Workshop: Timeline JS

*Please bring your laptop or device to class, and a copy of American Empire**

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • Look at this Time Magazine timeline about Nelson Mandela.  What kinds of sources does it use to tell its story?  What do you think is most effective?  What would you change?
By noon on Friday, 14 February:

*Primary Source Essay – upload pdf to Moodle*

Week 6: U.S. Immigration Policy

Monday
17 February

Workshop: Designing a Research Project

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • Rampolla, “Writing a Research Paper”
  • Blog Post: Identify a potential research question you’d like to investigate, explaining why it is important for understanding Latin American / Latinx history.  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”.
Wednesday
19 February

Race & American Immigration Law

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • Mae Ngai, “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924” (arp)
Friday
21 February

Research Workshop: Library Databases

*Please bring your laptop or device to class.*

*Annotated Bibliography Guidelines*

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • Blog Post: Evaluate your chosen Wikipedia Entry. How is this aspect of Latin American history represented? Do you see any biases? What kinds of sources are used? How might you improve the article to meet Wikipedia’s standards and show your skills of historical research and analysis? Tag your post “Wikipedia”

Week 7: Digital Histories

Monday
24 February

Approaching Historiographical Essays

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • Reena N. Goldthree, “New Directions in Caribbean History” OAH 2018
  • Louis Pérez, Jr. “Constructing the Cuban Absence” from The War of 1898 (arp)
  • Arturo Sarukhán
  • “Yes/No/OK, But” and “And Yet” from They Say, I Say (arp)
  • Blog Post: Drawing on our search strategies session from Friday, write two draft research annotations for your project. Tag them “research annotations.” Post comments on at least three classmates’ drafts.
Tuesday
25 February
7:30pm

Arturo Sarukhán on “The U.S.-Mexico Relationship”

Great Decisions Lecture Series
Wednesday
26 February

Discussion: Sarukhán Lecture

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
Friday
28 February

Writing Workshop: Peer Review of Research Proposal

  • I’m traveling for a Global & Internationals Studies project.  You will complete your review of 2 peers’ proposals on Moodle.  You may choose to meet in the classroom, or work in the library or another place on campus, but you MUST POST YOUR CRITIQUES TO MOODLE BY THE END OF THE DAY FRIDAY.  This will give me time to help anyone struggling to find high-quality sources well before your final annotated bibliography is due.  

Week 8: Braceros

Monday
2 March

Braceros

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • Mae Ngai, “Braceros, ‘Wetbacks’, and the National Boundaries of Class” (arp)
  • Week 8: Peer Review of Wikipedia Improvement Plans.
Wednesday
4 March

Bracero Primary Sources

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
Friday
6 March

Workshop: Creating & Customizing your History with Documents Site

Led by Jon Breitenbucher, Educational Technology

  • Bring your laptop/device to class for this hands-on workshop.
  • IF you’re ready, bring a 1600×1050 pixel image that fits your project.  To resize/crop your image for free online, try this.

*Upload Annotated Bibliography by 4pm.*

Spring Break

Week 9: Cold War Latin America SEE MOODLE for LATEST SCHEDULE

Monday
23 March

Cold War Latin America

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
Wednesday
25 March

Guatemala

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • George Gradin, Empire’s Workshop (arp)
  • If you have not already, sign up here for your research presentation date.
Friday
27 March

Workshop: Wikipedia Peer Review

 

Week 10: The Latino/a Midwest SEE MOODLE FOR LATEST SCHEDULE

Monday
30 March

The Latino/a Midwest: Historical Context

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
Wednesday
1 April

The Latino/a Midwest: Essential Laborers & Neighbors

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
Friday
3 April

Writing Workshop: Contextual Essay Draft  & List of 10+ Primary Sources

  • Bring two printed copies of your draft essay to class for peer review.  Moodle Workshop!

Week 11: The Latino/a Midwest

Monday
6 April

The Latino/a Midwest: La educación adelanta

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
Wednesday
8 April

The Latino/a Midwest: Performeando the Midwest

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
Thursday
April 9

WGSS Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

11am, CoRE
Friday
10 April

The Latino/a Midwest: Movimientos

Work to Complete Before Class Today:

*Wikipedia Project (memo & article edits) due by 4pm*

Week 12: Latinx Communities in Rural Ohio

Monday
13 April

History Workshop: Designing your Pecha Kucha Presentation

Work to Complete Before Class Today:

  • Garr Reynolds “Presentation Zen” (arp)
  • Pecha Kucha: Get to the Power Point in 20 Slides
  • Come to class today prepared to workshop your Pecha Kucha ideas.  You can have a draft set of 15 slides, or you may still be working out your communication strategies on paper.  Think ahead about your central argument, evidence, and take-away message.
Wednesday
15 April

Writing Workshop: Historiography Drafts

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • Bring two printed copies of your historiography rough draft to class for peer review.
Friday
17 April

Latinx Communities in Rural Ohio

Work to Complete Before Class Today:

Guest Speaker: Elyse Echegaray

  • Aidé Acosta “Reshaping the Rural Heartland: Immigration
    and Migrant Cultural Practice in Small-Town America” from The Latino/a Midwest
  • Read your choice of any three interviews from Kenyon College’s Latinos in Rural America (LiRA) Project.

Week 13: Student Research

Monday
20 April

Student Research Presentations
Wednesday
22 April

Student Research Presentations

Before Class Today:
  • Blog Post: Respond in depth to two of your classmates’ research presentations from Monday. What did they do well? What could they improve?
Friday
24 April

I.S. Symposium

 

Week 14: Student Research

Monday
27 April

Student  Research Presentations

Before Class Today:
  • Blog Post: Respond in depth to two of your classmates’ research presentations from last Wednesday. What did they do well? What could they improve?
Wednesday
29 April

Student Research Presentation (if necessary) or Current Events

Before Class Today:
  • Blog Post: Respond in depth to two of your classmates’ research presentations from Monday. What did they do well? What could they improve?
Friday
1 May

Conclusions

Work to Complete Before Class Today:
  • Blog Post: What are the three most important things you learned in class this semester?

 Final History with Documents Project Due: Tuesday, May 5 @ 9am