ALL1422-C 12 Weeks Wednesday 12:00-1:20 Start Date 29-Jan
Grossman 106 Limit 25
This course will examine encounters in the New World between white Euro-Americans and Native Peoples – in areas ranging from New England to the Pacific Northwest and from Canada to Mexico, Peru and the Caribbean. Classes will be organized around discussion and informed by the interests of the students. We will explore a collection of documents organized around topics such as: First Encounters, Conquest and Resistance, the English Arrive, Africans in America, and Planting New England. The documents are derived from an exceptionally diverse range of voices: from European expedition leaders to indigenous tribal leaders, to religious holy men from different cultures, to Africans caught up in the web of the international slave trade. These encounters are held to have had a determining effect on subsequent generations, right up to our own time.
Text: The text for this course is Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents by Jill Lepore (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Assignment: For the first assignment, please read pp. 6-16.
Coordinator: Richard Stewart 
Dick taught history for 43 years at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT. His BA is from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA and his MA is from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. He has taught various history courses at ALL since 2016.