Twenty-eight meetings, dated and connected to evidence.

Tue · August 25

Course launch; diagnostic boundary map; establish evidence, discussion, and Decision Record norms.

Thu · August 27

Compare frontier, borderlands, regional, environmental, and Indigenous-centered frameworks; source clinic.

Tue · September 1

Indigenous polities, mobility, kinship, and competing imperial claims in the eighteenth century.

Thu · September 3

Horses, trade, diplomacy, captive exchange, and a scale-of-power evidence lab.

Tue · September 8

Louisiana Purchase claims, diplomacy, intelligence, and contested sovereignty.

Thu · September 10

Platte Purchase document chain, Northwest archive orientation, and Mapping the West studio.

Tue · September 15

Removal, treaty vocabulary, parties, translation, coercion, and sovereignty.

Thu · September 17

Mexican North, jurisdiction, Indigenous diplomacy, and Source Reasoning Lab 1 annotation.

Tue · September 22

Manifest Destiny, Texas, the U.S.–Mexico War, and conquest.

Thu · September 24

Slavery’s western reach, gold, property, and a corroboration controversy.

Tue · September 29

Route and risk mapping from trail diaries, material traces, and quantitative evidence.

Thu · October 1

Family labor, gender, Indigenous homelands, disease, mortality, and Source Lab 2 transfer.

Tue · October 6

Civil War in Missouri, Indian Territory, New Mexico, and the Pacific.

Thu · October 8

Dakota War, the Long Walk, emancipation, Greater Reconstruction, and capstone scope workshop.

Tue · October 13

Railroad promotion, federal subsidy, land policy, corporate sovereignty, and labor.

Thu · October 15

Railroads, military logistics, dispossession, and the in-class historiographical synthesis.

Tue · October 20

Reservation policy, allotment, kinship, and settler governance.

Thu · October 22

Boarding-school records, child removal, archival harm, Indigenous persistence, and data sovereignty.

Tue · October 27

Racial formation through law, labor, migration, and border violence.

Thu · October 29

Newspaper comparison, corroboration, ethical quotation, and Source Lab 3 transfer.

Tue · November 3

National parks, tourism, and Indigenous dispossession.

Thu · November 5

Reclamation, water, extraction, conservation, administrative power, and capstone dossier workshop.

Tue · November 10

Oil, Dust Bowl ecology, migration, photography, and causal explanation.

Thu · November 12

New Deal development, wartime mobilization, incarceration, Bracero labor, and oral-history ethics.

Tue · November 17

Suburbanization, Sunbelt growth, federal investment, and unequal benefits.

Thu · November 19

Dams, water, nuclear landscapes, termination, Red Power, and capstone consultation.

Tue · December 1

Contemporary sovereignty, migration, water, climate, extraction, and capstone artifact workshop.

Thu · December 3

Politics of memory; redraw the Week 1 map and synthesize the course.