Week #0/ Thursday

14 July: Introduction to Class & Precontact California

Reading:

Rolle, Califorinia, Chapters 1-4

Margolin (ed), Life in a California Mission, 1-50

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Week #1/ Tuesday & Thursday

19 July: Spanish & Mexican California

Reading:

Rolle, Califorinia, Chapters 5-9

Margolin (ed), Life in a California Mission, 51-111

Paper Proposals Due

Reading Presentations #1 (7/19)

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21 July: American Takeover

Reading:

Rolle, Califorinia, Chapters 10-13

O.P. Fitzgerald, California Sketches (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/calbk:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28calbk059%29%29)

in Library of Congress Collection, California as I Saw It

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/

Reading Presentations #2 (7/21)

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Week #2/ Tuesday & Thursday

26 July: Gold, Statehood, & Early Commerce

Reading:

Rolle, Califorinia, Chapters 14-20

Reading Presentations #3 (7/26)

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28 July: Midterm 28 July

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Week #3/ Tuesday & Thursday

2 August: Gilded Age & Progressive California

Reading:

Rolle, Califorinia, Chapters 21-27

Fradkin, "The Profligate Province"

Reading Presentations #4 (8/2)

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4 August: Economic Growth in the Early 20th Century & Great Depression

Reading:

Rolle, Califorinia, Chapters 28-31

Fradkin, "Deserts" & "The Sierra"

Reading Presentations #5 (8/4)

First Paper Due BY 8/4

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Week #4/ Tuesday & Thursday

9 &11 August: WWII & 1950s

Reading:

Rolle, Califorinia, Chapters 32-35

Fradkin, "Land of Fire" & "Land of Water"

Reading Presentations #6 (8/9)

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Week #5/ Tuesday & Thursday

16 & 18 August: Civil Rights, New Left, New Right & Environmental Movement

Reading:

Rolle, Califorinia, Chapters 36-40

Fradkin, "The Great Valley" & "The Fractured Province"

Reading Presentations #7 (8/11)

Second Paper Due BY 8/11

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Week #6/ Tuesday

23 August: Final Exam

Class Schedule

Part B:

American (& S.F.)Century/ Gold Rush to 1906

From the era of American takeover to the 1890s, years of pre-progressive reform, do you find Americans particularly greedy or particularly concerned about justice and the legal adjudication of grievances? Is the "rule of greed" or the "rule of law" most important? In other words, do you find more conflict or cooperation among groups brought together in the Gold Rush? Do you find examples of both? Do you find changes over time? What examples do you find from Class, the Text, and Hurtado to support your answer?

Week #6 (10/7): GOLD RUSH!

• Gold Rush!
• American California

READING: Major Problems, Chapters 5 & 6; Killing for Land, pp. 1-49

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Week #7 (10/14): Business of Social Control

• Era of Merchant Control

READING: Major Problems, Chapter 7; Killing for Land, pp. 50-158

NO CLASS TODAY--READING MORNING

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Week #8 (10/21): Rise of Labor

• Rise of Labor, Boss Politics
• Early Economic Development of Southern California
• Early Progressive California & the rise of the Middle Class

READING: Killing for Land, pp. 159-274

WORK DUE: Papers Part A

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Week #9 (10/28): Early Reform and the Middle Class

• Early Economic Development of Southern California
• Early Progressive California & the rise of the Middle Class

READING: Major Problems, Chapter 8

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Week #10 (11/4):

WORK DUE: SECOND MIDTERM EXAM & GEOGRAPHY QUIZ #2

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Part C:

A Small Nation/ Twentieth Century California

Does a California identity (or identities) emerge in the twentieth century? How do you characterize the State's economic development in the early years of the century, the 1920s, the 1940s & 1950s, and the 1980s? What examples of social movements do you find from 1880 to the 1920s, the 1930s, and the 1960s--and who do these social movements represent? How do you characterize California politics, especially from 1880 to 1920, in the 1930s, the 1950s, the 1960s & 1970s, and the 1980s? What groups of people are most successfully represented in these years, and why? How are economic, social, and political developments related to race, ethnicity, class, and gender? Given economic, social, and political developments, how do you characterize 20th Century California? What examples do you find from Class, the Text, & Seven States to support your answer?

Week #11 (11/11): Southern & Progressive California

• Southern California, the Middle Class, & Progressive California

READING: Major Problems, Chapter 9; Seven States, "Preface" and "The Aproach"--along with "Fractured Province" and "Profligate Province"

Veteran's Day Holiday

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Week #12 (11/18): 1920s Economic Growth & Great Depression

• Economic Boom
• Great Depression

READING: Major Problems, Chapter 10; Seven States "Deserts" & "Sierra"

WORK DUE: Papers Part B

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Week #13 (11/25): WWII & California Suburbia

• Economic Impact of WWII
• Social Impact of Suburban Growth

READING: Major Problems, Chapters 11 & 12; Seven States, "Land of Fire" & "Land of Water"

Thanksgiving Break-No Class

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Week #14 (12/2): 1960s Reform

• Suburban Growth
• Civil Rights Era California

READING: Major Problems, Chapter 13; Seven States, "Great Valley"

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Week #15 (12/9): Always Changing California in the Information Era

• Information Capitalism and Environment

READING:Major Problems, Chapters 14 & 15

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Week #16 (12/16) :

WORK DUE: THIRD MIDTERM EXAM & GEOGRAPHY QUIZ #3

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