HIS410 - California History

• Starr, Kevin. California: A History. New York: The Modern Library. 2007. Read Chapter 3. This is not available through the library. Please purchase. You can use the NU Bookstore. 
• Monroy, Douglas. “The Creation and Re-Creation of Californio Society.” California History, vol. 76, no. 2/3, 1997, pp. 173–195. JSTOR, Read - pp. 173–195

• PBS, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. [Video]. PBS.

Watch this video. Please note that the following video contains violence, in this case, lynching, that might be triggering for some people. If you need an alternative, please contact your instructor. Because many of you plan to become teachers, consider as you watch the following two videos how you would teach this period of California History under Mexican rule.

• Kirsch, J. (2005, Sep 25). Californa:  A History. WEST WORDS; chronicle of the california adventure. Read Chapters 4 and 5
• Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar. New York: Random House, Inc. 2007.  Continue reading Farewell to Manzanar - should be halfway through the reading. This is not available through the library. Please purchase. You can use the NU Bookstore. 
• Primary documents - 
  • The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the Page Act of 1875, and the People v. Hall Decision of 1854.  Read ten pages.
    • To prepare for our second discussion on the Anglo colonization of California, read both the textbook chapters below and the primary documents.
  • The Foreign Miner's Tax from 1852 and a foreign miner's license from the time. Scroll one page.
  • 1889 Wintu Appeal to President Benjamin Harrison and on the Indian Protection Act of 1850
    • Read pages 530 - 532 
    • Consider what these say about Anglo governance in this period. 
• Students should also be halfway through Houston, Farewell to Manzanar.  This is not available through the library. Please purchase. You can use the NU Bookstore.