PowerPoints & Lecture Handouts
At the end of each week, I will post to this page the lecture PowerPoints and handouts. All documents will be saved as PDFs, so you will not see transitions between slides or among the various elements on a given slide.
Unit 1: The Early Indigenous West
- Making the "Red Continent" Download Making the "Red Continent" (Jan. 10) - handout Download handout
- Thinking Historically - Rise of the Triple Alliance Download Thinking Historically - Rise of the Triple Alliance (Jan. 12) - handout Download handout
Unit 2: Imperial Spain in the North American West
- Beginnings of European Expansion Download Beginnings of European Expansion (Jan. 17) - handout Download handout
- Cabeza de Vaca Discussion Download Cabeza de Vaca Discussion (Jan. 19) - handout Download handout
- Spanish Expansion into the American Southwest Download Spanish Expansion into the American Southwest (Jan. 24) - handout Download handout
- Indigenous Limits on Spanish Expansion Download Indigenous Limits on Spanish Expansion (Jan. 31) - handout Download handout
Unit 3: The Ambiguous West
- Frontiers & Furs - Turner Discussion Download Frontiers & Furs - Turner Discussion (Feb. 2) - handout Download handout
- Daniel Boone, The Ambiguous American, Part 1 Download Daniel Boone, The Ambiguous American, Part 1 (Feb. 7) - handout Download handout
- Daniel Boone, The Ambiguous American, Part 2 - Saunt Discussion Download Daniel Boone, The Ambiguous American, Part 2 - Saunt Discussion (Feb. 9) - handout Download handout
Unit 4: The US West
- American Expansion into the West - Lewis & Clark Discussion Download American Expansion into the West - Lewis & Clark Discussion (Feb. 14) - handout Download handout
- Trade & Expansion in the Pacific West Download Trade & Expansion in the Pacific West (Feb. 16) - handout Download handout
- Overland Migrations - Burlend Discussion Download Overland Migrations - Burlend Discussion (Feb. 21) - handout Download handout
- U.S. Empire in the West - US-Mexico War Documents Discussion Download U.S. Empire in the West - US-Mexico War Documents Discussion (Feb. 23) - handout Download handout
- Early Western Gold Rushes - Clappe's Shirley Letters Discussion Download Early Western Gold Rushes - Clappe's Shirley Letters Discussion (Mar. 2) - handout Download handout
- Problems of Western Expansion (Mar. 7) - handout