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REQUIRED BOOKS

• Charles C. Bolton and Scott P. Culclasure, The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life in the Old South
• Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a 16th Century Miller
• Georg Iggers, Historiography in the Twentieth Century

GRADING

50 points Scavenger hunt (due 9/26)
50 points Film interpretation (due 10/17)
100 points Historiography essay (due 10/26)
100 points Annotated bibliography (due 11/9)
50 points Presentation (11/28-30)
100 points Final paper (due 12/5)
50 points Attendance and participation

500 points Total

SCHEDULE

'''Aug 22''' Course overview, introductions

'''Aug 24''' What is history?

'''Aug 29''' The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life in the Old South, xv-18

'''Aug 31''' The Confessions of Edward Isham (selections)

'''Sept 7''' Scavenger hunt (meet on second floor of Library North)

'''Sept 12''' Georg Iggers, Historiography in the 20th Century, 1-50

'''Sept 14''' John Demos, “The Traditional World and the Logic of Circularity”

'''Sept 19''' No class

'''Sept 21''' Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a 16th Century Miller

'''Sept 26''' JB Jackson, “The Nineteenth Century Rural Landscape: The Courthouse, the Small College, the Mineral Springs, and the Country Store,” in Landscape in Sight, 185-197

Alain Corbin, Village Bells: Sound and Meaning in the 19th Century French Countryside, xii-12

'''Sept 28''' Elizabeth Fraterrigo, “The Answer to Suburbia: Playboy’s Urban Lifestyle”

Scavenger hunt due

'''Oct 3''' William Cronon, “A Place for Stories: Nature, History and Narrative”

'''Oct 5''' JB Jackson, “The Movable Dwelling and How It Came to America” in Landscape in Sight, 210-224

'''Oct 10''' Jack Temple Kirby, “Retro Frontiersmen” in The Countercultural South, 33-56

Project topic due

'''Oct 12''' William Riordon, “Preface,” “Honest Graft,” “New York City Is Pie for the Hayseeds,” and “Dangers of the Dress Suit in Politics,” in Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics

Paris Is Burning (film)

'''Oct 17''' Paris Is Burning discussion

Film interpretation due

'''Oct 19''' John R. Gennari, “Recovering the ‘Noisy Lostness’: History in the Age of Jazz”

'''Oct 24''' No class

'''Oct 26''' Writing workshop

Historiography essay due

'''Oct 31''' Iggers, 149-160

Shabbir Akhtar, A Faith for All Seasons: Islam and the Challenge of the Modern World, 3-23

'''Nov 3''' Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 143-163

'''Nov 7''' Jeremy Prestholdt, Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization, 13-33

'''Nov 9''' Reading material culture

Annotated bibliography due

'''Nov 14''' No class

'''Nov 16''' No class; office hours for final paper consultation

'''Nov 28''' Presentations

'''Nov 30''' Presentations

'''Dec 5''' Final papers due

Introduction to Historical Methods - Revision history

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