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Additional Class Topics
For Further Interest: Additional Class Topics
Chapter 1:
New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.A.D. 1769
- What is history? Can history change? Is
there a difference between history and the past? How do you learn history?
How do you learn about the past? What makes something (a piece of writing
or an artifact) a good piece of information about the past? What role does
bias play in recording, learning, and understanding history?
- Consider the whole story of the settlement
and discovery of America from the Indians point of view. Examine the
controversies over Columbuss role in the discovery and the actions
of subsequent Spanish conquistadores.
- Compare the development and subsequent
history of the Spanish in Mexico with that of the English in North America.
Consider particularly the impact of the mestizo factor
in Mexican history (a result of the intermarriage of Spanish and Indians)
compared to the quite different pattern of English relations with the Indians
in North America.
- Discuss the different historical perspective
obtained by considering the role of the Spanish borderlands of Florida, New
Mexico, and California as part of the history of colonial America (as distinct
from examining only the later English settlements along the Atlantic coast).
How does our understanding of American history alter if we consider developments
in these areas to be of equal importance?
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