History 114: History of the Early Americas

Resources

Handouts, and articles according to our class topics

• How do we know what we know?
• Native Peoples on the Eve of the Conquest
• European Backgrounds: Iberia on the Eve of the Conquest
• Conquest and Settlement
• The Colonial Economy
• The Church/Religion in Comparative Perspective
• Furs, Rivers and Black Robes: French Arrival
• Africans in the Americas
• Native Peoples in the Colonial Period: Change and Continuity
• Gender in Comparative Perspective
• Late Colonial Changes
• Selected On-line papers

"How do we know what we know?"

• Articles:
  • "Booklet that Upset Mrs. Cheney is History"
  • "21st Century Book Burning"
  • "A Monument to Denial"

Native Peoples on the Eve of the Conquest 

• Maps:  Native peoples by 1492
• "1492: An Online Voyage" exhibit at the Library of Congress

European Backgrounds: Iberia on the Eve of the Conquest

• Short article: Columbus' Remains Still a Bone of Contention

Conquest and Settlement

• Maps/charts:  Requerimiento
• Conquest doc's from Lockhart and Lepore discussion questions
• Diego Rivera Murals

The Colonial Economy

• Maps and graphs: encomienda, map of mining Mexico

The Church/Religion in Comparative Perspective

• Article: "Latin America's Indigenous Saint Stirs Anger, Pride"

Furs, Rivers and Black Robes:French Arrival

• Film: "Black Robe" study guide

Africans in the Americas

• Ppt. presentation
• ethnic hierarchy
• Discussion questions: "Africans in America" from Lepore chapter 6
• Links: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas
• Articles: "A Racial Quake in Brazil"
• "A New Color in Brazil TV"

Native Peoples in the Colonial Period: 
Change and Continuity

• Article:  "An Unsettling Racial Scorecard" by Gregory Rodriguez
• "To Address Inequality:  Look Racism in the Face" by Peter Hakim
• "Latin America's Indigenous (Juan Diego) Saint Stirs Anger, Pride"

Gender in Comparative Perspective

Late Colonial Changes and the Move to Independence

Selected On-line papers

• Portuguese Warfare in Africa by Charles Boxer