HISTORY 444: History of the Pacific Northwest

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WEEK 1

David Peterson del Mar, “Intermarriage and Agency: A Chinookan Case Study”

Cameron Addis, “The Whitman Massacre: Religion and Manifest Destiny on the Columbia Plateau, 1809-1858”

Elizabeth Vibert, "Real Men Hunt Buffalo: Masculinity, Race and Class in British Fur Traders' Narratives"

Alexandra Harmon, “Lines in the Sand: Shifting Boundaries between Indians and Non-Indians in the Puget Sound Region”   

WEEK 3

Quintard Taylor, "Freedmen and Slaves in Oregon Territory, 1840-1860"

Marie Rose Wong, “The Chinese Presence in Oregon,” chapter 2 in Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon

Rebecca Mead, selections from How the Vote Was Won

WEEK 4

Carlos Schwantes, "The Concept of the Wageworkers' Frontier"

Peter Boag, “Sex on the Road: Migratory Men and Youths in the Pacific Northwest’s Hinterlands”

Paige Raibmon, “The Practice of Everyday Colonialism: Indigenous Women at Work in the Hop Fields and Tourist Industry of Puget Sound”

Centralia Massacre Collection, Digital Archives, University of Washington Library http://content.lib.washington.edu/iwwweb/

WEEK 5

Communism in Washington State History and Memory Project, Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington: Daeha Ko, “Rough Beginnings,” Video Oral Histories, Photo Histories, and related primary sources: http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/index.htm

Laurie Mercier, “Reworking Race, Class, and Gender into Pacific Northwest History”

The Ku Klux Klan in Washington State, Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, University of Washington (History, Photos, and related documents):   http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/kkk_intro.htm

WEEK 6

Richard White, "Poor Men on Poor Lands: The Back-to-the-land Movement of the Early Twentieth Century--A Case Study"

Robert Ficken, "Rufus Woods, Wenatchee, and the Columbia Basin Reclamation Vision"

WEEK 7

Camp Harmony Exhibit (history and sources), University of Washington Libraries:   http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/

Richard Kirkendall, “The Boeing Company and the Military-Metropolitan-Industrial Complex, 1945-1953,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly (1994) 85(1): 137-149

Michele Gerber, On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site (selection TBA)

The Canwell Un-American Activities Hearings (website and sources), Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington: http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/canwell_hearings.shtml

WEEK 9

Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, University of Washington: http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/  Special Sections:   Seattle Black Panther Party; Filipino Cannery Unionism; Chicano/a Movement; Seattle’s Asian American Movement; United Farm Workers; and others