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HISTORY 20

PRIMARY DOCUMENTS AND ESSAYS

This page contains the primary documents you will be reading throughout the semester.  You must complete the readings by the first session of each week.  Highlighted authors are linked to sites that will give you background material on who wrote each of these passages (but are not part of the required reading).

WEEK 1 

GB_Bridge.jpg (46510 bytes) THE PLACE CALLED CALIFORNIA

by James Houston

WEEK 2

JohnScott04_sm.JPG (23484 bytes) THE WAY WE LIVED (Selections of  California Indian Stories)

Edited by Malcolm Margolin


WEEK 4

woman2.JPG (26315 bytes) DAME SHIRLEY BECOMES A MINERESS FOR A DAY

by Louisa Clapp

Richard_Henry_Dana.JPG (52046 bytes) TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST (1840)

by Richard Henry Dana

WEEK 5

deathhunt3_sm.JPG (66135 bytes) PONDERING THE FATE OF THE CALIFORNIA INDIAN

Sacramento Union Editorial, 1855

Ch_miners.JPG (49005 bytes) THREE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA (1857)

by J.D. Borthwick


WEEK 6

octopus.jpg (32904 bytes) THE OCTOPUS (selection) 

by Frank Norris

 

huntington.jpg (7697 bytes) COLLIS HUNTINGTON'S CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY, 1887
Kearney2.JPG (63801 bytes) DENIS KEARNEY ORGANIZES THE WORKINGMEN'S PARTY OF CALIFORNIA, 1877

by Ira Cross


WEEK 8

family.jpg (27856 bytes) WOMEN PROGRESSIVES AND IMMIGRANT WOMEN

by Gayle Gullet

filmaking_sm.JPG (20657 bytes) HOLLYWOOD AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM

by Lary May


WEEK 10

BarbedWire.jpg (49146 bytes) JAPANESE INTERNMENT DOCUMENTS


WEEK 12

savio.jpg (29947 bytes) DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT

by Mario Savio

reagan_1966.jpg (12588 bytes) DENOUNCING THE MORALITY GAP AT BERKELEY (1966)

by Ronald Regan

seale.jpg (27373 bytes) WHAT DOES THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY STAND FOR? (1968)

by Bobby Seale

chicano.jpg (3646 bytes) MANIFESTO OF THE CHICANO STUDENT CONFERENCE, 1969
aa_mvmt.jpg (19314 bytes) DECLARATION OF THE ASIAN AMERICAN POLITICAL ALLIANCE, 1969

 

free_speech3_sm.JPG (24304 bytes) BERKELEY IN THE 1960s

by W.J. Rorabaugh

WEEK 13

svfirmen.jpg (268650 bytes) SILICON VALLEY'S FUTURE AND THE NEW, NEW ECONOMY

by Miguel Helft

WEEK 15

WHO IS THE REAL ARNOLD?

by Sonja Steptoe

schwarz_sweat.jpg (26249 bytes)

SCHWARZENEGGER'S CLIMB BACK

by Kate Folmar