Schedule — Minnesota History — Spring 2019

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Quizzes close on Sunday night at 8 p.m. Discussion and all assignments are due by Friday at 8 p.m.

Week 1, January 14-18: History Bootcamp I

Read, View, or Play:

• Read this first

• Video intro to historical thinking

• Intro to primary vs. secondary sources

• For a plagiarism tutorial and read these two short introductions to avoiding plagirism one two and take this four-question quiz to test your knowledge of plagiarism.

Do: Take the Self Assesment to help me understand you better as a learner.
Quiz: Syllabus quiz online.
Do: Week 1 Response Document

Week 2, January 21-25: History Bootcamp II

Read, View, or Play: You will need your Star ID to log in to our Library Databases for these readings.

• Grand Mound Muskrat A Model of Ancient Cosmology on the Rainy River, accessed 2018-08-21.

• Jefferson Petroglyphs: Introduction, Timeline, Interpreting Jeffers

• Nelson, Paul. "Indian Mounds Park, St. Paul.", MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. (Accessed August 21, 2018).

Do: Week 2 Assignment: Markdown Tutorial
Quiz: Week readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 2 Response Document

Week 3, January 28 – February 1

Read, View, or Play :

• Peck, Jane. "Dakota, Ho-Chunk, and French Indigenous Communities Between St. Paul and Prairie du Chien, ca. 1300–1865." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/group/dakota-ho-chunk-and-french-indigenous-communities-between-st-paul-and-prairie-du-chien-ca-1300 (accessed August 21, 2018).

• Peacock, Thomas. "The Ojibwe: Our Historical Role in Influencing Contemporary Minnesota." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/ojibwe-our-historical-role-influencing-contemporary-minnesota (accessed August 21, 2018).

• Ehrenhalt, Lizzie. "Grand Portage (Gichi Onigamiing)." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/place/grand-portage-gichi-onigamiing (accessed August 21, 2018).

Do:[Assignment]: Introduction to Historical GIS
Quiz: Week 4 readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 3 Response Document

Week 4, February 4-8

Read, View, or Play:

• Backerud, Thomas. "American Fur Company Fishing on Lake Superior, 1835–1841." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/event/american-fur-company-fishing-lake-superior-1835-1841 (accessed August 21, 2018).

• Weber, Eric. "Bonga, George (ca. 1802–1874)." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. (accessed August 20, 2018).

• Vaughan, Margaret. "Métis in Minnesota." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. (accessed August 21, 2018).

• Carroll, Jane Lamm. “’Who Was Jane Lamont?’ Anglo-Dakota Daughters in Early Minnesota.”) Minnesota History 59, no. 5 (Spring 2005): 184–196., accessed 2018-08-21.

Quiz: Week 5 readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 4 Response Document
Do: Reading Historical Maps Assignment

Week 5, February 11-15

Read, View, or Play:

• Burnside, Tina. "African Americans in Minnesota." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/african-americans-minnesota (accessed August 20, 2018).

• Atkins, Annette. "Dred and Harriet Scott in Minnesota." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/event/dred-and-harriet-scott-minnesota (accessed August 21, 2018).

• "Enslaved African Americans and the Fight for Freedom"

• "Split in Two: The Dred Scott Decision – 1857" video, (accessed 2018-08-21)

Quiz: Week 6 readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 5 Response Document
Do: Dred and Harriet Scott Assignment

Week 6, February 18 – 22

Read, View, or Play:

• Ehrenhalt, Lizzie. "Trial of Joseph Israel / Lucy Ann Lobdell." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society.[Article and pictures] (accessed August 20, 2018).

• Johnson, Frederick. "Muus v. Muus." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. (accessed August 20, 2018). Article and pictures.

• Eliza Winston and the Politics of Freedom (http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/57/v57i03p106-122.pdf)

Quiz: Week 7 readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 6 Response Document
Do: Assignment available two weeks before due date.
Do: Bernt Muus Assignment

Week 7, February 25-March 1

Read, View, or Play:

• Minnesota Historical Society US-Dakota War of 1862 website. Read all five sections (Dakota Homeland, Newcomers, Treaties, Ware, Aftermath, Today) and view videos.
  – "U.S. – American Indian Treaties in Minnesota". Read all four sections, including the treaty timeline, how treaties changed lands and lifeways, and Ojibway rights retained.

Quiz: Week 8 readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 7 Response Document
Do: [Assignment]: U.S. Dakota War Prewriting

• U.S. Dakota War Timeline Assignment

Week 8, March 4-8

Read, View, or Play:

• Bring Warm Clothes, pages 83-95. AVAILABLE AT THE NORMANDALE LIBRARY ON RESERVE

Quiz: Week 9 readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 8 Response Document
Do:U.S. Civil War Letter

Spring Break

Week 9, March 18-22

Read, View, or Play:

• "The Trial of the Duluth Lynchers" Accessed 2018-08-20

• Burnside, Tina. "African Americans in Minnesota." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/african-americans-minnesota (accessed August 20, 2018)

Quiz: Week 10 readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 9 Response Document
Do: Duluth Lynching Assignment

Week 10, March 25-28

NO CLASS TUESDAY

Read, View, or Play:

• "What is Quantitative History

• Reading and Organizing Quantitative Evidence

• A brief history of statistics

• Sections "Populations and Samples" and "Displaying Data" in this article
  Paying attention to the terms in the sidebar.

Quiz: Week 11 readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 10 response documents
Do: Data in History
This is a two-week, two-part assignment and both parts of the assignment are due Week 11, Friday at 8 p.m. We will start working on this assignment this week.

Week 11, April 1-5

Read, View, or Play:

• Lajimodiere, Dr. Denise K. . "Native American Boarding Schools." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. Article (accessed August 20, 2018).

• Nelson, Paul. "State Reform School, St. Paul." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. Article (accessed August 21, 2018).

• Minnesota Historical Society Maria Sanford (accessed August 21, 2018).

Quiz: Week 12 readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 11 Response Document
Do: [Assignment]: Assignment available two weeks before due date.

Week 12, April 8-12

Read, View, or Play:

• Cartwright, R. L.. "Farmers’ Institutes, 1880s–1920s." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/group/farmers-institutes-1880s-1920s (accessed August 21, 2018).

• Huber, Molly. "Traveling Libraries." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/thing/traveling-libraries (accessed August 21, 2018).

• Bring Warm Clothes, pages 271-277

Quiz: Week 13 readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 12 Response Document
Do: Great Depression Letter Assignment

• Weber, Laura. "Talmud Torah, St. Paul." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/group/talmud-torah-st-paul (accessed August 21, 2018).
• Watch videos about Bohemian Flats:

Week 13, April 15-19 ### —

Read, View, or Play:

• "Unwed Mothers at Booth Memorial Hospital"(accessed 2018-08-28)

• "Cold War Minnesota"( accessed 2018-08-28)

Quiz: Week 14 readings (Quiz opens Thursday at noon until Monday at 8 pm)
Do: Week 13 Response Document
Do:[Assignment](Social Media and History)

Week 14, April 22-26

Read, View, or Play:

• Lee, Mai Na M. . "Hmong and Hmong Americans in Minnesota." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/hmong-and-hmong-americans-minnesota (accessed August 28, 2018).

• Wilhide, Anduin. "Somali and Somali American Experiences in Minnesota." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/somali-and-somali-american-experiences-minnesota (accessed August 28, 2018).

Bryant Avenue History Project Introduction

Quiz: No quiz
Do: Week 14 Response Document
Do: Bryant Avenue Project, Exhibits 1

Week 15, April 29 – May 3, Final Exhibit I

Read, View, or Play: Video Introduction to Omeka

Quiz: No Quiz
Do: Week 15 Response Document
Do: [Assignment]: Assignment available two weeks before due date.

Week 16, May 6-10, Final Exhibit II

Read, View, or Play:

Course Evaluation:
Do: Week 16 Response Document
Do: Assignment available two weeks before due date.

Week 17 (Finals), May 14-17

Do: [Final Exhibit Assignment]: Assignment available two weeks before due date.