Week I: Introduction | Libraries

Aug 29: Introduction: What is history and what is it good for?
Aug 31: Library resources (with E.J. Carter, history reference librarian)
-------- —meet in Watzek Library at main reference desk

Reading:
Maza, 1-44
Kyvig and Marty, 1-48
Presnell, 1-50

Week II: Bibliographies and Citations

Sep 7: Introduction to bibliographies and citations

Reading:
Maza, 45-82
Presnell, 98-107
Turabian, 139-289 (Part II: Source Citation)

Week III: History before Print

Sep 12: Manuscripts, paleography and codicology (with Hannah Crummé, Head of Special Collections)
-------- —meet in Watzek Library, Special Collections
Sep 14: The dating game: chronology and history

Reading:
Maza, 83-117
Alison Flood, "Messy Handwriting Reveals Mystery Translator" The Guardian, Nov 2019

Website:
National Archives of Britain, Paleography Tutorial

Week IV: Archival Research and Special Collections

Sep 19: Introduction to archives (with Hannah Crummé)
-------- —meet in Watzek Library, Special Collections
Sep 21: Special collections and exhibition curation (with Hannah Crummé)
-------- —meet in Watzek Library, Special Collections

Reading:
Maza, 188-156
Kyvig and Marty, 73-92
Presnell, 108-163
Ann Laura Stoler, "Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance," Archival Science (2) 2002
Jill Lepore, "The Cobweb: Can the Internet Be Archived?" The New Yorker, Jan 2015
Ian Cobain, "Lying about Our History?" The Guardian, June 2020

Websites: Selection of archives online

Suggested films: Das Leben der Anderen | The Lives of Others (2007),
Das Schreckliche Mädchen | The Nasty Girl (1990)

Week V: Government and Online Sources

Sep 26: Books and primary sources online
Sep 28: Government records (with E.J. Carter) —meet in Watzek Library classroom

Reading:
Maza, 157-198
Kyvig and Marty, 49-72
Presnell, 51-72, 164-188
Barbara Weinstein, "Let the Sunshine In: Government Records and National Insecurities" AHA Perspectives (45:4) 2007

Week VI: Organized Religion and Demography

Oct 3: Parish and missionary records as historical sources
Oct 5: The census and history

Reading:
Maza, 199-240
Eamon Duffy, "Preface" in The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, 1-47
Peter Laslett, "Births, Marriages, and Deaths" in The World We Have Lost, 106-121
Cassandra Berman, "Slavery's Archives: Confronting Jesuit Slaveholding at Georgetown University" AHA Perspectives (60:7) 2022

Week VII: Oral History and News Media

Oct 10: Newspapers, journals, and periodicals (with E.J. Carter) —meet in Watzek Library classroom
-------- Film: The Fog of War, 7-10 pm, Miller 102
Oct 12: Living memory and history; an introduction to oral history

Reading:
Kyvig and Marty, 93-108
Presnell, 73-97
"Deathly Archive: Terrorists and Historians," The Economist, Jan 2012
Studs Terkel, "Introduction" in "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II, 3-16
Haruko and Theodore Cook, "Introduction to a Lost War" in Japan at War: An Oral History, 5-20

Video:
PBS NewsHour, "The Belfast Project"

Required film: Errol Morris: The Fog of War (2003)
Suggested films: Errol Morris: The Thin Blue Line (1988), Ken Burns: The War (2007)

Week VIII: The Living and the Dead

Oct 17: Cemeteries, monuments and memorials
Oct 19: Cemeteries, monuments and memorials (cont.)

Reading:
Kyvig and Marty, 147-160
Jonathan Schneer, "London in 1900" in London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis, 3-36
David Crane, "Prologue" and "The Making of a Visionary" in Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves, 1-29

Video:
Arthur Cauty, "The Felling of Colston" (2020)

Memorial:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Week IX: History across Space

Oct 24: Mapping history: cartography, geography, and historical research
Oct 26: Architectural, urban, and environmental history

Reading:
Kyvig and Marty, 161-178
Presnell, 191-217
Matthew Edney, "The Ideologies and Practices of Mapping and Imperialism" Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843, 1-36
Thomas Metcalf, "New Delhi: The Beginning of the End" in An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain’s Raj, 211-239

Week X: Art and Archaeology

Oct 31: Archaeology, anthropology, and history
Nov 2: Methods in art history (with Prof. Ben David, Department of Art)

Reading:
Bernard Cohn, "An Anthropologist among the Historians: A Field Study," South Atlantic Quarterly (61:1) 1962, 1-49
Alan Mayne, "On the Edges of History: Reflections on Historical Archaeology," American Historical Review (113:1) 2008
"Nasty, Brutish and not that Short" The Economist, Dec 2010
Jason Farago, "The Myth of North America in One Painting" in New York Times (2020)

Suggested film: The Rape of Europa (2006)

Week XI: Images and Artifacts

Nov 7: Using photographic records
Nov 9: Material culture as historical evidence

Reading:
Kyvig and Marty, 109-146
Presnell, 218-244, 277-312
"A New Roman 'Emperor'" The Economist, Nov 2022

Video:
Tobias Capwell, Agincourt: Myths and Misperceptions, Wallace Collection, London

Suggested films: Le Violon Rouge [The Red Violin] (1998), Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

Week XII: Oral History Presentations

Nov 14: Presentation of oral history projects
Nov 16: Presentation of oral history projects

Week XIII: Oral History Presentations continued

Nov 21: No class meeting (optional meeting with instructor)
Nov 23: THANKSGIVING (NO CLASS)

Week XIV: Final Editing Project Presentations

Nov 28: Presentation of final editing projects
Nov 30: Presentation of final editing projects

Week XV: Conclusion

Dec 5: No class meeting (optional meeting with instructor)
Dec 7: Conclusion and final discussion

FINAL EDITING PROJECT DUE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8 by 5:00 pm