OFFICE: CA 504B
OFFICE HOURS: R 5:45-8:25
EMAIL: JASKELLY@IUPUI.EDU
WEBSITE: HTTP://WWW.ONCOURSE.IU.EDU
H500 is a reading intensive graduate seminar
that focuses on the evolution of historical thought. Posing important questions about the purpose
and philosophy of history, students will analyze how history writing has
developed against a background of social, cultural, and political events.
The first third of the course traces history
writing from the ancient world to its development as an academic and
“scientific” discipline in the nineteenth century. The second third of the course studies the
shifting scope of historical inquiry after WWI, especially focusing on the
various forms of “social history.” The
final portion of the course introduces students to the “postmodern” challenge
and new directions for historical inquiry at the beginning of the 21st
century.
This
course will challenge you on many levels.
The assignments will encourage you to improve your ability to
communicate effectively through writing and speech, to critically think about
the course material, and to integrate and apply your knowledge to the topic of
historiography. You will refine your
understanding of the history, methodologies, and expectations of the historical
profession. As such, this course
conforms to IUPUI’s Principles of Undergraduate Learning. For more information, please see http://www.iupui.edu/~history/ugmain.html.
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See me before you purchase any books.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
You are responsible for
all announcements that I make during the lectures. If there is any adjustment
to the syllabus, I will announce it in class. If for any reason you do not
attend the entire lecture, you are still responsible for any announcements that
I make. Be sure to contact a fellow student who is responsible and can relay
you the information. You may email me or come to my office hours for any
announcements you missed.
GRADING
The
grade breakdown is as follows:
PARTICIPATION AND PRESENTATIONS: 25%
WEEKLY PRECIS: 25%
HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY (4000-6000 WORDS): 50%
Scale: A=90-100, B=80-89, C=70-79, D=60-69, F=0-59
This course only meets
once a week. Attendance is
mandatory. I expect you to be prepared
to discuss the course themes and readings during every lecture.
If you desire to dispute a grade, you may submit an explanation to me
in writing. State your points of contention and your reasons for them. If you are not in class on the day I give
back your assignment, make sure to get your grade from me promptly.
At IUPUI, Adaptive Educational Services (AES) works to
make campus life and learning accessible for students with disabilities. AES
assists students in achieving their educational goals through such services as
note taking, interpreting, and test proctoring.
Visit the AES webpage at: http://life.iupui.edu/aes/ or
call them at 317.274.3241.
I
will not tolerate either of these. Cheating includes copying answers from another
student or bringing notes to an exam. Plagiarism is using the words or ideas of
another person in your work and presenting them as your own. I will fail you
for either of these. Additionally, I will report you to the Dean of Student
Affairs. If you have any questions as to what constitutes plagiarism or
cheating, see me or see the “Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and
Conduct” online at http://www.hoosiers.iupui.edu/studcode/stucode.htm.
WEEK
1
Introduction:
What is Historiography?
WEEK
2
Class
Presentations: Ancient World to Middle Ages
Select readings from the following: Herodotus,
Thucydides, Livy, Plutarch, Appian of Alexandria, Einhard, Bede, Joinville, Ibn Khaldun
WEEK
3
Class
Presentations: Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Select readings from the following: Christine de
Pizan, Leonardo Bruni, Guicciardini, Paolo Sarpi, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Edward
Gibbon
WEEK
4
Class
Presentations: Nineteenth Century
Select readings from the following: Leopold von
Ranke, Jules Michelet, Friedrich Engels, Jacob Burckhardt, Arnold Toynbee,
Henri Pirenne
WEEK
5
The
Annales School
Fernand
Braudel. “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée.” On History
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 25-54.
Lynn
Hunt, “French History in the Last Twenty Years: The Rise and Fall of the
Annales Paradigm,” Journal of
Contemporary History, 21:2 (1986): 209-224.
WEEK
6
Social
History
E.P. Thompson, “The Moral Economy of the English
Crowd in the Eighteenth Century,” Customs
in Common (London: Penguin, 1993), 185-258.
Alfred F. Young, “English Plebeian Culture and
Eighteenth-Century American Radicalism,” The
Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism, ed. Margaret C. Jacob and James R.
Jacob (London, 1984), 185–212.
William Pencak,
“Introduction: A Historical Perspective.” Riot
and Revelry in Early America. Edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis and
Simon P. Newman
WEEK
7
Class
Presentations: Cultural History and Microhistory
Select readings from the following: Guido Ruggiero,
Natalie Zemon Davis, Mona Ozouf, John Brewer
WEEK
8
Deep
Play
Geertz,
Clifford, The Interpretation of Cultures; Selected Essays (New York:
Basic Books, 1973), first half
WEEK
9
Geertz,
Clifford, The Interpretation of Cultures; Selected Essays (New York:
Basic Books, 1973), second half
WEEK
10
Power/Knowledge
Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish: The
Birth of the Prison, 2nd ed. (New York: Vintage Books, 1995).
WEEK
11
Gender
Joan
Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in
the Age of the French Revolution (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988).
or
Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The
Making of America's Beauty Culture (New York: Owl Books, 1999)
WEEK
12
Post/colonialism
Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), first half.
WEEK
13
Eric Wolf. Europe and the People Without History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), second half.
WEEK
14
Race/Ethnicity
Gilroy, Paul, 'There Ain't No Black in the Union
Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
or
David
Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race
and the Making of the American Working Class, rev. ed. (Verso, 1999)
WEEK
15
New
Directions
Marshall
Sahlins, Apologies to Thucydides:
Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2004).