Week 1: Introduction
- August 24: Course Introduction (Zoom)
- August 26: Lecture (Zoom)
- August 28: Read Erika Lee, “A Part and Apart;” Adam Goodman, “Nation of Migrants;” and Bruno Ramirez, “Globalizing Migration Histories?” (blog)
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***
Week 2: Colonial Life and Immigration Historiography
- August 31: Research Session (Zoom)
- September 2: Lecture (Zoom)
- September 4: Read Some Memoirs of the Life of Job (https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/bluett/bluett.html/) and “Diary of John Harrower, 1773-1776” (blog)
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***
Week 3: Early Republican/Antebellum European Immigration
- September 7: Lecture (Zoom)
- September 9: Read excerpts from News from the Land of Freedom (“Weitz” and “Stille and Krumme”) (blog)
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Wednesday; Comments are due at 5PM on Wednesday***
September 11: Move in Day–No Class
Week 4: Late 19th/Early 20th-Century European Immigration
- September 14: Lecture
*** Primary Source Analyses are due in class on Monday***
- September 16: Lecture
- September 18: Read Bread Givers
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***
Week 5: Chinese Immigration
- September 21: Lecture
- September 23: Lecture
- September 25: Read Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***
Week 6: Anti-Immigrant Legislation
- September 28: Lecture
- September 30: Lecture
- October 2: Read “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law”
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***
Week 7: Midterm
- October 5: Catch-Up/Review Day
- October 7: Midterm, Part 1 (short-answer identifications)
- October 9: Midterm, Part 2 (essay(s))
Week 8: Japanese American Internment
- October 12: Lecture
- October 14: Lecture
- October 16: Read Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind a World War II Fence
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***
Week 9: Post-World War II Refugees
- October 19: Lecture
*** Project Descriptions are due in class on Monday***
- October 21: Lecture
- October 23: Watch A Gentlemen’s Agreement (1947)
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***
Week 10: Post-1965 Immigration
- October 26: Lecture
- October 28: Lecture
- October 30: Watch Blue Collar and Buddha (Kanopy)
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***
Week 11: Japanese American Redress Movement
- November 2: Lecture
- November 4: Lecture
- November 6: Watch the first 1 hour and 50 minutes of the C-SPAN Hearing on “Redress to Japanese Americans” (https://www.c-span.org/video/?126246-1/redress-japanese-americans)
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***
Week 12: Current Debates on Immigration
- November 9: Lecture
- November 11: Lecture
- November 13: Read Make Your Home among Strangers
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***
Week 13: Immigration and Ethnicity in Future
- November 16: Current Political Debates (TBD)
- November 18: Watch & Discuss Waking Dream (Kanopy)
- November 20: “Who Was She?” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/she-thought-she-was-irish-until-a-dna-test-opened-a-100-year-old-mystery/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.dd8133a886c3)
*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***
Week 14: Research Papers/Thanksgivings
- November 23: Final Video Presentations are due at noon via email (kmoon@umw.edu)
- November 25-27: Thanksgiving
Week 15: Presentations
- November 30: Research Papers are due at noon via email (kmoon@umw.edu)
- December 2: Final Exam Review (Zoom)
- December 4: Please attend the History and American Studies Symposium
Week 16 (April 27-May 1): Finals Week
- December 9: Final essay is due at noon via email (kmoon@umw.edu)