1.Syllabus

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Assignments

  1. Reading Journal--10 percent
  2. Midterm Exam--20 percent
  3. Final Exam--20 percent
  4. Class Discussion--10 percent
  5. Historical Fiction Analytical Paper--20 percent
  6. Class Presentations--10 percent
  7. Readings Quizzes--10 percent
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The Historian's Craft


  1. Karl Marx
  2. Charles Beard
  3. Fernan Braudel
  4. Herodotus
  5. Thucydides
  6. Tacitus
  7. Hegel
  8. Leopold von Ranke
  9. Edward Toynbee
  10. Eugene Genovese
  11. Carlo Ginzburg
  12. Hayden White
  13. Michel Foucault
  14. Joan Scott
  15. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
  16. Max Weber

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Historical Fiction Reading List

  1. Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward.
  2. Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road.
  3. Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre.
  4. Cooper, James. Last of the Mohicans.
  5. Dickey, James. Deliverance.
  6. Frazier, Charles. 13 Moons
  7. Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain.
  8. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Scarlet Letter.
  9. Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.
  10. Lederer, William. The Ugly American.
  11. Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
  12. McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
  13. Morrison, Tony. Beloved.
  14. Sams, Ferol. Run with the Horsemen.
  15. Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.
  16. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
  17. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
  18. Tourgee, Albion. A Fool's Errand.
  19. Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
  20. Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men.

Course Schedule

Class One

  • Assigned Readings:
    1. The History Student Writer's Manual, Chapter 1
    2. American Historical Association, "Why Study History?"

Class Two

  • Assigned Readings:
    1. Houses of History, Chapters 1, 2
    2. Sidney Hook, "Communism without Dogmas" (1934)
    3. William James, "The Will to Believe" (1897)

Class Three

  • Assigned Readings:
    1. Houses of History, Chapters 3, 4
    2. The History Student Writer's Manual, Chapter 2.

Class Four

  • Assigned Readings:
    1. Houses of History, Chapters 5, 6
    2. William Graham Sumner, "Sociology" (1881)

Class Five

  • Assigned Readings:
    1. Houses of History, Chapters 7, 8
    2. The History Student Writer's Manual, Chapter 3.

Class Six

  • Assigned Readings:
    1. Houses of History, Chapters 9, 10
    2. Catherine MacKinnon, "Feminism Unmodified." (1987)

Class Seven

  • Assigned Readings:
    1. Houses of History, Chapter 11, 12
    2. W.W. Rostow, "The Stages of Economic Growth."

Class Eight--Midterm Exam

Class Nine

  • Assigned Readings:
    1. Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre

Class Ten

  • Assigned Readings:

Class Eleven

  • Assigned Readings:
    1. Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre

Class Twelve

  • Assigned Readings:

Class Thirteen

  • Assigned Readings:
    1. Dan Williams, God's Own Party

Class Fourteen

  • Assigned Readings:

Class Fifteen

  • Assigned Readings:

Class Sixteen

  • Assigned Readings:

Final Exam Period