Date: Friday, May 10, 2019
Location: Arcata High School Library
Agenda
“The Changing Nature of Immigrants and Anti-Immigration Attitudes”
“The United States Census and the End of the Frontier”
Required Reading, Viewing, and Listening
“The ‘Last Cowboys’ of the New American West,” On-Point podcast, May 15, 2018, WBUR
Gilder Lehrman Institute Resources
Spotlights on Primary Sources
“San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1880”
Essays
Phillip Lopate, “Immigrant Fiction: Exploring an American Identity,” History Now 3 (Spring 2005)
Videos
Matthew Jacobson, “The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part 1”
Matthew Jacobson, “The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part 2”