Listed in: History, as HIST-251
Mark Clinton (Section 01)
Francis G. Couvares (Section 01)
[US] A history of urban America in the industrial era, this course will focus especially on the city of Holyoke as a site of industrialization, immigration, urban development, and deindustrialization. We will begin with a walking tour of Holyoke and an exploration of the making of a planned industrial city. We will then investigate the experience of several key immigrant groups--principally Irish, French Canadian, Polish, and Puerto Rican--using both primary and secondary historical sources, as well as fiction. Students will write several papers on one or another immigrant group or a particular element of social experience, and a final research paper that explores in greater depth one of the topics touched upon in the course. The course will include students from Amherst College and Holyoke Community College and is open to all students, majors and non-majors. All students will engage in some primary research, especially in the city archives and Wistariahurst Museum, in Holyoke. Amherst College History majors who wish to write a 25-page research paper and thereby satisfy their major research requirement may do so in the context of this course. Classes will be held at both Amherst and Holyoke sites; transportation will be provided.
Enrollment is limited to ten students per institution. Spring semester. Professors Couvares and Clinton (HCC).
Section 01
W 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM CHAP 103
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working people of Holyoke: class and ethnicity in a Massachusetts mill town, 1850-1960 | New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1990 | Hartford, William F. | TBD | |||
| The Parish and the Hill | New York: Feminist Press, 2002 | Curran, Mary Doyle | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.