EIU His 5000, Fall 2010, Newton KeyT 7:00-9:30 pm, Coleman Hall 2750Historiography1. History Stories, 24 Aug.a. Questionsi. How would you characterize the history of history? (1) W hat periods/changes would you insert?ii. W hat are the main approaches/types of history today?2. Arts and Sciences, 31 Aug.a. Readingsi. Gaddis, Landscape, preface, chs. 1-4ii. Norman J. W ilson, History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography, 2 ed. nd(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005), 6-27. OnR3. Message in the Medium, 7 Sept.a. Readingsi. Evans, In Defence, intro., chs. 1-3b. Supplementary Materialsi. Early Historians, Excerpts (as assigned)(1) see website4. Towards Historicism, 14 Sept.a. Readingsi. Gaddis, Landscape, chs. 5-6ii. Evans, In Defence, chs. 4-6b. Supplementary Materialsi. Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)1ii. Early Historians, Excerpts (as assigned)(1) see website5. Marx Class [Dr. Anita Shelton], 21 Sept.a. Readingsi. Erich Fromm, Marx’s Concept of Man (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1961, 1966),preface and chs. 1-8 (pp. 1-83) AS HANDOUTii. Georg G. Iggers, “Marxism and Modern Social History,” New Directions inEuropean Historiography, rev. ed. (Middletown, CT: W esleyan University Press,1984), 123-74. AS OnRiii. Karl Marx, “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts,” in Marx’s Concept of Man,trans. T.B. Bottomore (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1961, 1966), 93-109. AS OnRiv. E.J. Hobsbawm, “Marx and History”, in On History (London, 1997), reprinted inHistorians on History, ed. John Tosh (Harlow: Pearson, 2000), 91-8. AS/NK OnRorv. Paul LeBlanc, “The Revolutionary Marxist Synthesis,” in From Marx to Gramsci: AReader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities,1996), 2-19. NK OnRb. Supplementary Materialsi. Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)26. Turner, History, and National Identity [Dr. Lynne Curry], 28 Sept.a. Readingsi. Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,”American Historical Association. Annual Report for the Year 1893 (W ashington,DC: American Historical Association. 1894), 1-37. LC OnRii. “The W orld's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath,” AmericanStudies, Univ. of Virginia, 1996 <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/wce/title.html>iii. Frederick J. Turner, "Social Forces in American History," AHR 16, 2 (1911):217-33. LC ElJiv. Merrill Lewis, "Language, Literature, Rhetoric, and the Shaping of the HistoricalImagination of Frederick Jackson Turner," Pacific Historical Review 45, 3 (1976):399-424. LC ElJv. Martin Ridge, "Turner the Historian: A Long Shadow," Journal of the EarlyRepublic 13, 2 (1993): 133-44. LC ElJvi. David Rollinson, “Marxism,” in W riting Early Modern History, ed. Garthine W alker(London: Hodder Arnold, 2005), 3-24 NK OnRb. Supplementary Materialsi. Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)3EIU His 5000, Fall 2010, Newton KeyT 7:00-9:30 pm, Coleman Hall 275027. Macrohistory vs. Microhistory, 5 Oct.a. Readingsi. Annales and Macrohistory(1) Lynn Hunt, “French History in the Last Twenty Years: The Rise and Fallof the Annales Paradigm,” Journal of Contemporary History 21, 2 (1986):209-24. ElJ(2) Peter Burke, The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School1929-89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990), 6-11, 32-64 (esp.43-64), and glossary (112-6). OnRii. Microhistory(1) Edward Muir, “Introduction: Observing Trifles,” in Microhistory and theLost Peoples of Europe, ed. Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero (Baltim ore:Johns Hopkins, 1991), vii-xxvii. OnR(2) Jill Lepore, “Historians W ho Love Too Much: Reflections on Microhistoryand Biography,” JAH 88, 1 (2001): 129-44. ElJiii. Macro and Micro(1) Davíð Ólafsson, “Community based microhistories and related scholarlyapproaches within humanities and social sciences,” (unpublished talk,“Theory and Practice of Microhistory: A W orkshop at CollegiumBudapest,” 19 June 2009)<http://ludens.elte.hu/~szijarto/microhist/michist/olafsson.pdf>(2) Matti Peltonen, “Clues, Margins, and Monads: The Micro-Macro Link inHistorical Research,” H & T 40, 3 (2001): 347-59. ElJ iv. Evans, In Defence, ch. 7b. Supplementary Materialsi. Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one) on Macrohistory4ii. Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one) on Microhistory58. The Linguistic Turn: History and Postm odernism [Dr. Mark Hubbard], 12 Oct.a. Readingsi. Bryan Palmer, "Critical Theory, Historical Materialism, and the Ostensible end ofMarxism," in The Postmodern History Reader, ed. Keith Jenkins (London:Routledge, 1997), 103-13. MH OnRii. Roland Barthes, "The Discourse of History," in The Postmodern History Reader,120-3. MH OnRiii. Hans Kellner, "Language and Historical Representation," inThe PostmodernHistory Reader, 127-38. MH OnRiv. Gertrude Him melfarb, "Telling It as You Like It: Postmodernist history and theflight from fact," in The Postmodern History Reader, 158-74. MH OnRv. Lawrence Stone, “History and Postmodernism,” in The Postmodern HistoryReader, 239-43 [includes introduction to the following letters]. MH OnRvi. Patrick Joyce and Catriona Kelly, “History and Post-Modernism,” Letters, P & P133 (1991): 204-13. MH ElJvii. Lawrence Stone and Gabrielle M. Spiegel, “History and Post-Modernism,” Letters,P & P 135 (1992): 189-208. MH ElJviii. Anthony Grafton, “History’s postmodern fates,” Dædalus (Spring 2006): 54-69.NK ElJb. Supplementary Materialsi. Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)69. Gender [Dr. Sace Elder], 19 Oct.a. Readingsi. Joan W . Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” AHR 91, 5(1986): 1053-75. SE ElJii. Joanne Meyerowitz, A History of “Gender,” in AHR Forum: Revisiting “Gender: AUseful Category of Historical Analysis,” AHR 113, 5 (2008): 1346-56. SE ElJiii. Bonnie G. Smith, “Gender and the Practices of Scientific History: The Seminarand Archival Research in the Nineteenth Century,” AHR 100, 4 (1995): 1150-76.SE ElJiv. Thomas Laqueur, “Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of ReproductiveBiology,” The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in theNineteenth Century, Representations 14 (1986): 1-41. SE ElJv. Gaddis, Landscape, ch. 7. NKEIU His 5000, Fall 2010, Newton KeyT 7:00-9:30 pm, Coleman Hall 27503b. Supplementary Materialsi. Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)710. Orientalism and the Postcolonial [Dr. Roger Beck],