History/MAS 142
Banned: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories. If you believe that, read Matt Taibbi’s “Great Derangement”
Origins of Mayday in US and Mexico—and today?
Watergate–the plumbers before and after
Anything by Chalmers Johnson, San Diego’s author of the “Nemesis” Trilogy
The Students for a Democratic Society
1970 Election in US
Any cartel (you pick)
Lucy Parsons
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
John Reed and the Revolution in Mexico (what’s a revolution?)
Santa Anna and the disastrous Treaty
The Alamo
Narcocorridos
Big Bill Haywood and the Russian Revolution
Impact of the Russian Revolution in the US and Mexico
The Industrial Workers of the World
Benito Juarez and the Mexican State
Shifting levels of Power of the Roman Catholic Church (either Mexico or US or both)
Impact of Geography on the political economy of the US or Mexico or both
Huerta and Carranza
The Cristero Wars
Distribution of hacienda lands to ejidos
Nationalizing, then “privatizing,” oil in Mexico
The Great Financial Crises of 1929 and 2008–focus on US–either year or both
NAFTA and the US and Mexico
What were Osama Bin Laden’s goals?
What is fascism?
The Bracero Programs (see Gil Gonzalez’ book)
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz and the General Strike in Mexico
Origins (1965) of the Maquiladora programs and the current state of affairs
The dirty wars under Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz
Water and Power–the US and Mexico
The US Invasion of Grenada
My Lai
GI Newspapers during the US wars on Vietnam
Zapatistas
“Empire as a Way of Life” by William Appleman Williams
Mexico City: the 1968 Olympics
Key events in the US: 1968
Black Panther Party
Malcolm X
Origins of WWI or WWII
Mexico: The Corpus Christi Massacre
Gulf War One or Two or Both
The Origins of the Taliban, Al Quada, AQAP, ISIS (aka Daesh)–any one or all
Importance of the collision of the US, NATO, the Ukraine, and Russia
The Afghan wars of the USSR and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Castro, the US, and Mexico
The Bay of Pigs invasion
Operation Wurlitzer or Mockingbird or both.
Kim Philby, the Cambridge Five, and the CIA
MK-ULtra
The Lawrence Mass. Textile Strike
Joe Hill
Joan Baez
The IWW Magnon Brothers and Mexico
Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
COINTELPRO
Mexico’s Agriculture: who owns and who works?
Mexico’s Maquis: Who owns and who works?
Freedom Summer USA (civil rights movement)
Former President Fox, a Harvard grad, says “decriminalize drugs.” What sayeth you and why?
The state of secularism in Mexico’s schools. What does the Constitution say? The reality?
The Calderon/López-Obrador election. Who won and why?
The Great Flint Strike Agaist GM
The campaign for the 43 disappeared students and the nature of their school
Eugene Debs
The Palmer Raids
B Traven and his Mexico novels
Bonus March—Vets after WWI demanding the bonus promised to them. What happened?
The AFL-CIO and the CIA
Reagan and the PATCO strike
The Lemon Grove incident http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/86spring/lemongrove.htm
Herbert Marcuse, UCSD, and Ronald Reagan
The 1968 SDSU student strike
Chicago and the Democratic Convention: 1968
Former Reagan Budget Director David Stockman said, “government is a Trojan Horse for the Rich.” Why would he say that. What did he mean? What sayeth you?
Inequality in the US and Mexico–one, the other, or both.
The DEA, the Justice Department, and Fast and Furious
The US and Saudi Arabia
The US and Israel
Chicano! PBS Documentary - Taking Back The Schools
The Grapes of Wrath and the Facts about John Steinbeck
Anything by Carey McWilliams, California’s greatest historian (“Factories in the Fields,” etc.)
Zoot Suit Riots
How does “culture” relate to social class in either the US or Mexico or both?
Finance capital versus industrial capital vs working people in the US and or Mexico
What is the role of technology as related to social class?
American post 911 Torture and the Spanish Inquisition
Opposition to WWI
Who was Spreckles? Rosecrans? The other founders of San Diego, really? See this book: https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/v55-1/pdf/v55-1roundtable.pdf
Wikileaks and Bradley Manning
The impact of the Chinese Revolution on the US
The impact of the Russian Revolution to the US