Current Semester - Spring 2025

Class code: HOUSECE 59.02

This class meets weekly from 5:15 pm to 6:45pm on Wednesdays at Perkins Library LINK Room 065 (Classroom 2). The first meeting is on January 15, 2025, and the last one is on April 23, 2025. Some meetings will be held elsewhere or on trips, and information about different locations will be communicated in advance. Each week's reading materials will be contained in the respective drop-down display menus. When clicking on the links to readings, all reading materials are accessible through Duke Library's subscription services. You do not need to pay for anything for this class.
Please click on the content menu below to navigate this page:

Spring 2025 Schedule Spring 2025 Syllabus PDF

Spring 2025 Schedule:

Meet at Pink Parlor, East Duke Building (East Campus) for History Department lecture event on the history of Navajo code talkers (5:30-7pm)

Course Introduction Activity and Syllabus Overview

Course Introduction Activity and Syllabus Overview

Topic:
Cost of Louisiana Purchase and US Banking Credit with Britain and France

Topic:
Rethinking Custer and the Battle of Greasy Grass

Reading materials:

Topic:
Death of Meriwether Lewis and the Aftermath of the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Topic:
Angel Island

Topic:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the U.S.-Native American community relations in the Southwest

Topic:
Wind River Water Rights

Will watch this documentary together in class:

Spring Break

Topic:
18 Unratified Treaties of California
For the reading only read Pages 1-26

Topic:
Los Angeles's Oil Industry

Topic:
USPS in the West

Topic:
Watch Wind River (2017)

Topic:
Global West

Topic:
Wrap Up

Spring 2025 Syllabus