week 1. Introduction
- Aug. 26. What is History?; What is Historiography?; A History of History?
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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
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week 3. Positivism and Its Discontents
- Sept. 9. Appleby, Hunt, and Jacob, Telling the Truth, part
II; Evans, In Defense, chs. 4-6
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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)
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week 5.
- Sept. 23. Marxism as History and Historiography (Shelton)*
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week 6.
- Sept. 30. Separate Spheres in Early America (LeMaster)*
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week 7.
- Oct. 7. Turner Thesis (McElligott)*
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week 8.
- Oct. 14. 19th-Century United States Political (Voss-Hubbard)*
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week 9.
- Oct. 21. Imperialism, Orientalism, and Neo-colonialism (Beck)*
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week 10.
- Oct. 28. Current Trends and Controversies in Latin American History
(Deustua)*
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week 11.
- Nov. 4. Revising the Holocaust? (Elder)*
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week 12.
- Nov. 11. State and Society in 20th-Century United States (Curry)*
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week 13.
- Nov. 18. Cultural Interpretations of United States Foreign Relations
(Wehrle)*
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week 14. What is History Now?
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week 15. The Future of History
- Dec. 9. Presentations;
Conclusion
- Dec. 15. Historiographical Review Paper due
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