**NOT THIS ONE! –> Use “Pages” below **Fall 2018 History 100 M/W 6:45 to 10:05
Dr Rich Gibson
Emeritus Professor, SDSU
Professor, SWC
Our Phantasmagoric Agenda #1
Why are things as they are?
We make our own history but not in circumstances we chose.
“Shams and delusions are esteemed for the soundest truth, but reality is fabulous.” Henry David Thoreau
October 15
1966 – The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
October 16th
1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
October 16th
1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Above, Mao Tse Tung on Long March
1946 – Nuremberg trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
MEETING 1 – 10/16
In most classes, we will address: “What’s up?” That is a brief discussion of our social context which is, or will be, history. Today, I ask, “How do you feel about the curent President of the USA?” You may choose to pass, not to answer.
1. Introductions.
a. Questions: Who are you? From? Why are you here? Why take this class? What were you taught about history? How was it taught? Why? What do you remember most clearly? Why? What are you curious about?
b. Who is this professor anyway?
2. What is history? What are the motive forces of history?
3. How our class will work–the syllabus: read it for next class and bring questions. (Just google “Rich Gibson,” click the link and see the syllabus and agenda at the top of the page).
4. Why have school? (an exercise in critical, to the root, thinking–studying contradictions in the real world.