Schedule and Readings
Readings linked herein are for educational purposes only.
Week 1 (13 Jan)
Course Introduction
Week 2 (20 Jan)
Historiographic Tracks I
Read
Georg Iggers, Historiography, Introduction, Section I.
Michael Kahn, “The Seminar” (1971)
Paolo Frieire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Chapter 2.
Week 3 (27 Jan)
Historiographic Tracks II
Read
Georg Iggers, Historiography, Finish.
William Cronan, “Getting Ready to Do History,” Carnegie Essays on the Doctorate, Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, Carnegie Foundation, Palo Alto, 2004, 1-18.”
Week 4 (3 Feb)
When Good History Goes Bad
Read
Jon Weiner, Historians in Trouble. Whole book.
Week 5 (10 Feb)
Historical Problem I: The Object of Research
Read
Jenny Presnell, Information-Literate Historian, Introduction, Chapter 1.
Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Introduction, Chapters 1-2, Epilogue. (Here, and here.)
Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 (Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1997), Introduction, Chapters 1-2.
Week 6 (17 Feb)
Historical Problem II: The Subject of Argument
Read
Booth, et al., The Craft of Research, Section 3-4.
E.P. Thompson, “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century,” Past and Present 50 (Feb. 1971): 76-136.
Kimberly Gauderman, “A Loom of Her Own: Women and Textiles in Seventeenth Century Quito” Colonial Latin American Review (Dec. 2003).
Week 7 (24 Feb)
No Class – Meet with your writing Partner and review your Historical Problem Essays.
Week 8 (3 Mar) Historical Problem Assignment Due.
Session on Campus and Digital Archival Resources
Read
Bickford, “The Archival Imperative: Human Rights and Historical Memory in Latin America’s southern Cone,” Human Rights Quarterly 21:4 (Nov. 1999): 1097-1122.
Kevin Kelly, “Scan this Book!” The New York Times, 14 May 2006.
Please look at the following websites:
Week 9 (10 Mar)
SPRING BREAK
Week 10 (17 Mar)
Methodology I: What are the Historian’s Methods?
Read:
Presnell, Information-Literate Historian, Chapters 2-3.
Barber and Berdan, The Emperor’s Mirror, Selections.
Keith Jenkins, Rethinking History, Selections. – Please read the Introduction and Chapter 1.
Valentina Tikoff, “Not All Orphans Really Are”: The Diversity of Seville’s Juvenile Charity Wares during the Long Eighteenth Century,” in González and Premo, eds., Raising an Empire, pp. 41-74.
Week 11 (24 Mar)
Methodology II: Argument and Method in the Journal Article
Read.
Presnell, Information-Literate Historian, Chapter 4.
Group I: Histories of Space
Marc Baer, “The Great Fire of 1660 and the Islamicization of Christian and Jewish Space in Istanbul,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 36, 2 (2004) 159-81.
Kathryn J. Oberdeck, “Class, Place and Gender: Contested Industrial and Domestic Space in Kohler, Wisconsin, USA, 1920-1960,” Gender and History 13, 1 (2001): 97-137.
Group II: Histories of the “Local”
Sundiata Cha-Jua, “’A Warlike Demonstration’: Legalism, Violent Self-Help, and Electoral Politics in Decatur, Illinois, 1894-1898,” Journal of Urban History, 26 (2000): 591- 629.
Sarah Farmer, “Down and Out and Female in 13th Century Paris,” American Historical Review 104, 3 (1998): 344-72
Group III: Histories of the Visual
Ronald P. Toby, “Carnival of the Aliens: Korean Embassies in Edo Period Art and Popular Culture,” Monumenta Nipponica 41, 4 (1986): 415-456.
Tamara Matheson, “From Text to Image: Philosophy and the Television Book Show in France, 1953-1968,” French Historical Studies 28, 4 (2005): 629-659
Group IV: Histories of Work
Peter Temin, “The Labor Market of the Early Roman Empire,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34, 4 (2004): 513-38.
Frank Tobias Higbie, “Rural Work, Household Subsistence, and the North American Working Class: A View from the Midwest,” International Labor and Working Class History 65 (2004): 50-76.
Week 12 (31 Mar) Historical Method Assignment Due.
Sources I: The Problem with Sources
Read
Presnell, Information-Literate Historian, Chapters 5-6.
Booth, et al., Craft of Research, Chapters 5-6.
Selected sources on the Conquest of Mexico. (Here, here, and here.)
Week 13 (7 Apr)
Sources II:
Read:
Presnell, Information-Literate Historian, Chapters 7-9
The Death of Che Guevara
Week 14 (14 Apr)
No class- Meet with your writing partner and review each others work.
Week 15 (21 Apr) Primary Source Assignment Due.
Managing Your Research I: Tools
Read:
TBD
Week 16 (28 Apr) Archive Description Due.
Managing Your Research II: Archives and Presentation
Read:
Presnell, Information-Literate Historian, Chapter 10.
Dan J. Cohen and Roy Rosenwig, Digital History.