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Class One
Assigned Readings:
The History Student Writer's Manual, Chapter 1
American Historical Association, "Why Study History?"
Class Two
Assigned Readings:
Houses of History, Chapters 3, 4
The History Student Writer's Manual, Chapter 2.
Class Four
Assigned Readings:
Assigned Readings:
Houses of History, Chapters 7, 8
The History Student Writer's Manual, Chapter 3.
Class Six
Assigned Readings:

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men.
Course Schedule
Class One
Assigned Readings:
American Historical Association, "Why Study History?"
Class Two
Assigned Readings:
Houses of History, Chapters 1, 2
Sidney Hook, "Communism without Dogmas" (1934)
William James, "The Will to Believe" (1897)
Class Three
Assigned Readings:
Houses of History, Chapters 3, 4
Class Four
Assigned Readings:
Houses of History, Chapters 5, 6
William Graham Sumner, "Sociology" (1881)
Class Five
Assigned Readings:
Houses of History, Chapters 7, 8
Class Six
Assigned Readings:
Houses of History, Chapters 9, 10
Catherine MacKinnon, "Feminism Unmodified." (1987)
Class Seven
Assigned Readings:
Houses of History, Chapter 11, 12
W.W. Rostow, "The Stages of Economic Growth."
Class Eight--Midterm Exam
Class Nine
Assigned Readings:
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
Class Ten
Assigned Readings:
Class Eleven
Assigned Readings:
Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre
Class Twelve
Assigned Readings:
Class Thirteen
Assigned Readings:
Dan Williams, God's Own Party
Class Fourteen
Assigned Readings:
Class Fifteen
Assigned Readings:
Class Sixteen
Assigned Readings:
Final Exam Period

Assignments
Reading Journal--10 percent
Midterm Exam--15Exam--20 percent
Final Exam--15Exam--20 percent
Class Discussion--10 percent
Fiction Analytical Paper--15 percent
Historical Theory Analytical Paper--15Paper--20 percent
Class Presentations--10 percent
Readings Quizzes--10 percent
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The Historian's Craft
Karl Marx
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Max Weber
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Historical Fiction Reading List
Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men.
Nonfiction Reading List
(Select one of the following books. Only one student will read and analyze each book. Books will be assigned on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Students must email the course professor to notify which book they have selected.)
Andersen, Benedict. Imagined Communities.
Beard, Charles. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.
Cunningham, Andrew and Ole Grell. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel
Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller
Keegan, John. The Face of Battle.
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy. The Peasants of Languedoc.
Passerini, Luisa. Fascism in Popular Memory.
Portelli, Alessandro. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories.
Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History.
Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic.
Said, Edward W. Orientalism.
Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions.

Assignments
Reading Journal--10 percent
Midterm Exam--15 percent
Final Exam--15 percent
Class Discussion--10 percent
Historical Fiction Analytical Paper--15 percent
Historical Theory Analytical Paper--15 percent
Class Presentations--10 percent
Readings Quizzes--10 percent
The Historian's Craft
Karl Marx
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Max Weber
FictionHistorical Fiction Reading List
Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward.
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road.

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Max Weber
ReadingFiction Reading List
Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward.
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road.
Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre.
Cooper, James. Last of the Mohicans.
Dickey, James. Deliverance.
Frazier, Charles. 13 Moons
Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Scarlet Letter.
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.
Lederer, William. The Ugly American.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Morrison, Tony. Beloved.
Sams, Ferol. Run with the Horsemen.
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Tourgee, Albion. A Fool's Errand.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men.
Nonfiction Reading List
(Select one of the following books. Only one student will read and analyze each book. Books will be assigned on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Students must email the course professor to notify which book they have selected.)

Andersen, Benedict. Imagined Communities.
Beard, Charles. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.
Cunningham, Andrew and Ole Grell. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel
Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller
Keegan, John. The Face of Battle.
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy. The Peasants of Languedoc.
Passerini, Luisa. Fascism in Popular Memory.
Portelli, Alessandro. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories.
Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History.
Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic.
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy. The Peasants of Languedoc.Said, Edward W. Orientalism.
Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions.

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Max Weber
Reading List
(Select one of the following books. Only one student will read and analyze each book. Books will be assigned on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Students must email the course professor to notify which book they have selected.)
Andersen, Benedict. Imagined Communities.
Beard, Charles. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel
Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller
Keegan, John. The Face of Battle.
Passerini, Luisa. Fascism in Popular Memory.
Portelli, Alessandro. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories.
Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic.
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy. The Peasants of Languedoc.

The Historian's Craft
Karl Marx
Charles Beard
Fernan Braudel
Herodotus
Thucydides
Tacitus
Hegel
Leopold von Ranke
Edward Toynbee
Eugene Genovese
Carlo Ginzburg
Hayden White
Michel Foucault
Joan Scott
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Max Weber