Listed in: History, as HIST-301
Formerly listed as: HIST-99
Sean Redding (Sections 01 and 02)
This course offers an opportunity for history majors and students intrigued by the past to reflect upon the practice of history. How do we claim to know anything about the past at all? How do historians construct the stories they tell about the past from the fragmentary remnants of former times? What is the connection between the past as it was lived and the narratives that historians write? How do we judge the truth and value of these histories and memories? The course explores questions such as these through readings and case studies drawn from a variety of places and times. A central aim of the course is to give students a sense of how the discipline of History has developed over time, as new theories and agendas have emerged, and as earlier versions of the past have been reevaluated in light of changing circumstances and commitments. Requirements include active participation in class and multiple graded and ungraded written assignments. Two meetings per week.
Not open to first-year students. Two sections per semester, limited to 15 students per section. Fall semester: Sean Redding. Spring semester: Trent Maxey.
If Overenrolled: Preference given to History majors.
Section 01
Tu 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM ONLI ONLI
Th 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM ONLI ONLI
Section 02
Tu 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM ONLI ONLI
Th 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM ONLI ONLI
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.
| Section(s) | ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 & 2 | A Human Being Died That Night | Mariner, 2004 | Godobo-Madikizela, Pumla | TBD | |||
| 1 & 2 | The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller | Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2013 | Ginzburg, Carlo | TBD | |||
| 1 & 2 | The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific | Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997 | Obeyesekere, Gananath | TBD | |||
| 1 & 2 | How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, for Example | Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995 | Sahlins, Marshall | TBD | |||
| 1 & 2 | Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, with a new afterword | Harper Perennial 2017 | Browning, Christopher | TBD | |||
| 1 & 2 | Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History | Pantheon 1986 | Spiegelman, Art | TBD | |||
| 1 & 2 | History: Why it matters | Polity Press 2018 | Hunt, Lynn | TBD | |||
| 1 & 2 | Thinking about History | University of Chicago 2017 | Maza, Sarah | TBD | |||
| 1 & 2 | Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History | Beacon Press 1995 | Trouillot, Michel-Rolph | TBD | |||
| 1 & 2 | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom | Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2018 | Blight, David | TBD | |||
| 1 & 2 | Barracoon: the story of the last "Black Cargo" | Amistad 2018 | Hurston, Zora Neale | TBD |