Home | Reader 2002 | Term Papers
| Wed Jan. 23 |
Introduction to the course and the field of the history of reading, printing, technology, and cultural studies | |
| Jan. 25 Jan. 28 |
Use Ong to explore the nature of oral and print societies (European colonialists, Native Americans, African Americans; Asian Americans and Chicano/Latinos in the West. | Ong, Orality, especially Chap. 3-5 |
| Jan. 30 | Class discussion of Ong's psychodynamics and examples. Look over Joseph Cinque and the Amistad. | Reader #1-2-3
Indian Oratory |
| Feb. 1 | Slave tales, the trickster, and Ong's psychodynamics. Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus. Tar Baby without dialect. Native American trickster tales (Wile E. Coyote) | Reader #4
Levine, "Slave tales" |
| Feb. 4 | Literacy in America | Reader #5, Graff |
| Feb. 6 | Review for quiz: Ong, slave tales, literacy, examples. Mohawk Primer, 1786. | Reader #6, Greene; #7, Miles |
| Feb. 8 | Meet in 212 Wheeler for an introduction to the course website and web resources. | Feb. 11 | QUIZ |
| Feb. 13 | Intro. to the Massachusetts Colonists and Native Americans. (Winship: The Cambridge Press, 1638-1692; 1945) | Reader #8, Simmons |
| Feb. 15 | Missionary goals and printing. John Eliot | Reader #9, Eliot |
| Feb. 18 | Holiday | |
| Feb. 20 | Film: a seventeenth-century press ("The Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp"). | Class handout |
| Feb. 22 | The captivity narrative. Indians in colonial newspapers. | Reader #10-11, Captivity Narrative; #12, Copeland |
| Feb. 25 | Education in early America. Read also Jonathan Rose's update of Altick, "Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audiences," Journal of the History of Ideas 53:1 (1992) 47-70. It can be found on UC's web access www.uclibs.org/PID/922, search for AUTHOR: Jonathan Rose. | Reader #14, Altick; #15, Rose [web]; #13, Cremin |
| Feb. 27 | Education after the Civil War. Colonial education, hornbook, This is it! New England Primer, 1805 edition, and another edition of 1807 , dame school, etc. discussion and pictures, title and a lesson. Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733, ( text in modern type), Farmer's Almanack, 1795. Used in class: Black teachers. | Reader #17, Eiselein |
| Mar. 1 | Class discussion. Review | Reader #16, #18 |
| Mar. 4 | QUIZ | |
| Mar. 6 | Meet in 212 Wheeler for a look at Uncle Tom's Cabin and spin-offs on the web. See also Library of Congress material on Uncle Tom's Cabin. Abolitionist newspapers, though not the National Era. Historic maps. | |
| Mar. 8 | Abolitionist press: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, (1855) | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Mar. 11 | Publishing the bestseller. Slave narratives. | Reader #19, Coultrap-McQuin. |
| Mar. 13 | Information infrastructure. The System of Cities, 1790-1840. | Reader #20, Pred. |
| Mar. 15 | Information infrastructure shaping America, the colonies | Reader #21, Brown, |
| Mar. 18 | Information infrastructure shaping America, the industrial age | Reader #22-23, John, Lehmann-Haupt |
| Mar. 20 | Class discussion. Review | |
| Mar. 22 | QUIZ | |
| Mar 25- 29 | Spring Break | |
| Apr. 1 | Newspapers: Native American and Spanish Californian. Joaquin Murrietta | Reader #24-25, Murphy, Pitt |
| Apr. 3 | Magazines: African American | Reader #27, Hutton |
| Apr. 5 | Immigrant newspapers, Chinese; Turn in topic for the Final Project Sample website, project idea. | Reader 28-29, Bunch | Apr. 8 | Edward S. Curtis, photographer of Native Americans (1914 video and discussion). | Videos: "In the Land of the War Canoes" (1914); Anne Makepeace, "Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians" (2000) |
| Apr. 10 | Meet in 212 Wheeler for web research for your project. The image in print (engraving, woodcut, photograph, newspaper, magazine, sheet music, advertising, poster) | |
| Apr. 12 | Mass media and cultural image | Reader #26, Fahs |
| Apr. 15 | Class discussion. Review. Turn in final project topic and abstract. Notes on final project. | |
| Apr. 17 | QUIZ | |
| Apr. 19 | Introduction: California and Print; The Chinese in California | |
| Apr. 22 | The Chinese in America | Reader #30, Takaki |
| Apr. 24 | The American image of the Chinese and politics | Reader #31, Miller |
| Apr. 26 | A missionary to the Chinese speaks for them in print: Otis Gibson. | Reader #32, Gibson |
| Apr. 29 | Spanish-speaking California | Reader #33, Almaguer |
| May 1 | Class cancelled | |
| May 3 | QUIZ | |
| May 6-8-10-13 | Student presentations summarizing final projects | |
| May 13-14 | Final paper due. Either turn it in in class on Monday or, on Tuesday, slide it under door, Room 3325 Dwinelle. |
