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Hist 616 - American West

AmWest Post #5: Migrations + Environmental Change = Way of the West?

This week’s reading, University of Arkansas historian Elliott West’s excellent The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains, focuses on two major migrations into the Central Plains during the mid-19th century: the better-known westward movement of U.S.-Americans and the lesser-known
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October 5, 2014David McKenzie1 Comment
Hist 616 - American West

AmWest Post #4: Oral History and Memory

Last week, in discussing Brian DeLay’s War of a Thousand Deserts, we briefly touched on the topic of oral history as a means to learn about the past–not just from a person’s lifetime, but from a family, tribe, and/or community’s more distant past.
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September 27, 2014September 27, 2014David McKenzie1 Comment
Hist 616 - American West

AmWest Post #3: Roles of Indians in North American Politics

This week’s reading of Brian DeLay’s War of a Thousand Deserts, as well as Bernard DeVoto’s abridged version of Lewis and Clark’s journals (digital version of the entire set here), coincided for me with a trip to Minnesota for the American Association
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September 21, 2014September 21, 2014David McKenzieLeave a comment
Hist 616 - American West

AmWest Post #2: “Well, I knew it wasn’t the East”

This afternoon I attended a meeting of the Potomac Corral, a group of people in the Washington region interested in the history and culture of the American West. Everyone went around the table to introduce themselves. The icebreaker question: What is your connection
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September 13, 2014September 14, 2014David McKenzie1 Comment
Hist 616 - American West, Latin American History, Mexican History, United States History

AmWest #1: View from the East vs. View from the South

For the few people following along at home: I’m now taking a Western U.S. History class with Dr. Paula Petrik. This is the first in a series of weekly posts about our readings. Our first reading assignment is, perhaps, not surprising for
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August 31, 2014September 8, 2014David McKenzie2 Comments
Hist 615 - History and Cartography - Fall 2013

Cartography: (Hopefully) Final Map Draft

Well, my friends, this is the end of our journey into the unknown world of maps, with only maps to guide us. Oh wait. Seriously, though, it’s been a great journey. And with reaching the end, we are near the end of
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December 3, 2013David McKenzieLeave a comment
Hist 804 - Latin America & the World Minor Field

LatAm Readings: Hegemony and Dependency

Introduction The journey is almost done! Because many of the readings this semester have addressed dependency theory and Antonio Gramsci’s concepts of hegemony (in addition to world systems theory, which we read earlier in the semester), this week’s readings to close out
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December 1, 2013December 2, 2013David McKenzieLeave a comment
Hist 615 - History and Cartography - Fall 2013

Cartography: Atlas Pages, Draft 2

Since I have an advisory board meeting for the project I’m doing at work this week, I won’t be in class on Thursday night. However, nonetheless I’m submitting a second draft for the hivemind to critique. Actually, I’m submitting two second drafts.
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November 19, 2013November 19, 2013David McKenzie1 Comment
Hist 615 - History and Cartography - Fall 2013

Cartography: Final Project Draft

And thus the ride nears its end… For my final atlas pages project, I decided to produce maps that I might well use in my dissertation: the journeys of three Mexicans through the United States in the 1830s. The three individuals were
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November 14, 2013November 14, 2013David McKenzie2 Comments
Hist 804 - Latin America & the World Minor Field

LatAm Readings: United States & Latin America

Introduction Last spring, I took a fascinating Latin America and the United States course with Dr. Matthew Karush. We read a series of works (syllabus PDF) that looked primarily at the cultural relationship, exploring themes of transnationalism and generally complicating the picture;
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November 12, 2013David McKenzieLeave a comment

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