HIS410 - California History

• Starr, Kevin. California: A History. New York: The Modern Library. 2007. Read Chapter 1 - *This is not available through the library. Please purchase. You can use the NU Bookstore.*
• Damon Akins and William Bauer, A People of the Land, A Land for the People" (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2021).  Read Chapter One.
• Browse the images that capture some idea of the range of Native American culture and diversity prior to Spanish colonization at "Before 1768: Pre-Columbian California," University of California Calisphere website.
• Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, & James D. Houston. (2002). Farewell to Manzanar. Clarion Books.  Begin reading the Houston memoir Farewell to Manzanar. *This is not available through the library. Please purchase. You can use the NU Bookstore. *

• Kevin Starr, California: A History (New York: Modern Library, 2015). Read Chapter 2, This is not available through the library. Please purchase. You can use the NU Bookstore. 
• Miranda, Deborah, 2018, September 18. Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation (or Monterey) Perspective on the Spanish Missions: Lying to Children about the California Missions. 

Please choose one of the two following articles.  Read these peer-reviewed secondary sources to determine what is the main thesis, the evidence, and the significance. 

• Option #1: Antonia Castenada, "Sexual Violence in Policies and Politics of Conquest.” In Sexual Violence in Conquest Zones (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).  This article deals with sexual violence, so you have the option of reading another if you prefer. 
• Option #2: Panich, “After Saint Serra: Unearthing Indigenous Histories at the California Missions.”Journal of Social Archaeology 16.2 (2016): 238-258. 
• "California Cultures: Native Americans at the University of California Calisphere focusing on Exploration. 
• Continue Reading Farewell to Manzanar - This is not available through the library. Please purchase. You can use the NU Bookstore.