EIU His 5000, Fall 2004, Newton Key
Th 19:00-21:30, Coleman 3752

Historiography

Texts:

week 1. Introduction
  • Aug. 26. What is History?; What is Historiography?; A History of History?
 
week 2. Historical Objectivity?; Social Science or Art of History?
  • Sept. 2. Appleby, Hunt, and Jacob, Telling the Truth, introduction & part I; Evans, In Defense, introduction & chs. 1-3
 

week 3. Positivism and Its Discontents

  • Sept. 9. Appleby, Hunt, and Jacob, Telling the Truth, part II; Evans, In Defense, chs. 4-6
 
week 4. What is to be Done?
  • Sept. 16. Appleby, Hunt, and Jacob, Telling the Truth, part III; Evans, In Defense, chs. 7-8 & afterword (from In Defence of History, London ed., 2001, Booth Library Reserves)
 

week 5.

  • Sept. 23. Marxism as History and Historiography (Shelton)*
 

week 6.

  • Sept. 30. Separate Spheres in Early America (LeMaster)*
 

week 7.

  • Oct. 7. Turner Thesis (McElligott)*
 

week 8.

  • Oct. 14. 19th-Century United States Political (Voss-Hubbard)*
 

week 9.

  • Oct. 21. Imperialism, Orientalism, and Neo-colonialism (Beck)*
 

week 10.

  • Oct. 28. Current Trends and Controversies in Latin American History (Deustua)*
 

week 11.

  • Nov. 4. Revising the Holocaust? (Elder)*
 

week 12.

  • Nov. 11. State and Society in 20th-Century United States (Curry)*
 

week 13.

  • Nov. 18. Cultural Interpretations of United States Foreign Relations (Wehrle)*
 

week 14. What is History Now?

 

week 15. The Future of History

  • Dec. 9. Presentations; Conclusion
  • Dec. 15. Historiographical Review Paper due
 


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