| Mon Aug. 30 |
Introduction to the course and the field of the history of reading, printing, technology, and cultural studies | |
| Sept. 1 Sept. 3 |
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 |
| Sept. 6 | Holiday. Labor Day | |
Wed. Sept. 8 |
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 #1-2-3 Indian Oratory |
| Sept. 10 | Levine, levels of meaning in Br'er Rabbit; Graff | |
| Sept. 13 | Graff, Literacy in America. |
Reader #5, Graff |
| Sept. 15 | Spanish-speaking America; Miles, "Rediscovering Native Americans in History" | |
| Sept. 17 | Review for quiz: Ong, slave tales, literacy, discussion examplesSpanish-speaking America; Native American "oratory" | |
| Sept. 22 | Intro. to the Massachusetts Colonists and Native Americans. (Winship: The Cambridge Press, 1638-1692; 1945) | Reader #8, Simmons, "Cultural Bias in the New England Puritans." |
| Sept. 24 | Missionary goals and printing. John Eliot | Reader #9, Eliot |
| Sept. 27 | Film: a seventeenth-century press ("The Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp"). | Class handout |
| Sept. 29 | The captivity narrative. Indians in colonial newspapers. | Reader #10-11, Captivity Narrative; #12, Copeland |
| Oct. 1 | 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 |
Mon. Oct. 4 |
Education after the Civil War. Colonial education, hornbook, 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 |
| Oct. 6 | Class discussion. Review | Reader #16, #18 |
| Oct. 8 | QUIZ | |
| Oct. 11 | Uncle Tom's Cabin and spin-offs on the web. Also Library of Congress material on Uncle Tom's Cabin. Abolitionist newspapers, though not the National Era. Historic maps. | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Oct. 13 | Abolitionist press: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, (1855) | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Oct. 15 | Publishing the bestseller. Slave narratives. | Reader #19, Coultrap-McQuin. |
| Oct. 18 | Information infrastructure. The System of Cities, 1790-1840. | Reader #20, Pred. |
| Oct. 20 | Information infrastructure shaping America, the colonies | Reader #21, Brown, |
| Oct. 22 | Information infrastructure shaping America, the industrial age | Reader #22-23, John, Lehmann-Haupt |
| Oct. 25 | Class discussion. Review | |
| Oct. 27 | QUIZ | |
| Oct. 29 | Newspapers: Native American and Spanish Californian. Joaquin Murrietta | Reader #24-25, Murphy, Pitt |
| Nov. 1 | Magazines: African American | Reader #27, Hutton |
| Nov. 3 | Immigrant newspapers, Chinese; Turn in topic for the Final Project Sample website, project idea. | Reader 28-29, Bunch |
| Nov. 5 | 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) |
Mon. Nov. 8 |
Web research for your project. The image in print (engraving, woodcut, photograph, newspaper, magazine, sheet music, advertising, poster) | |
| Nov. 10 | Mass media and cultural image | Reader #26, Fahs |
| Nov. 12 | Class discussion. Review. Turn in final project topic and abstract. Notes on final project. | |
| Nov. 15 | QUIZ | |
| Nov. 17 | Introduction: California and Print; The Chinese in California | |
| Nov. 19 | The Chinese in America | Reader #30, Takaki |
| Nov. 22 | The American image of the Chinese and politics | Reader #31, Miller |
| Nov. 24-26 | Holiday. Thanksgiving. | |
| Nov. 29 | A missionary to the Chinese speaks for them in print: Otis Gibson. | Reader #32, Gibson |
| Dec. 1 | Spanish-speaking California | Reader #33, Almaguer |
| Dec. 3 | QUIZ | |
| Dec. 6-8-10 | Student presentations summarizing final projects | |
| Dec. 13 | Final paper due. Either turn it in in class on Friday or slide it under door, Room 202 Morrison Hall, before 5PM. |
