HIS4930sec05 Fall 2006 1 HIS 4930 sec 05 U S PUBLIC HISTORY THRU MEDIA Florida State University Fall 2006 Wednesday 2 30 5 15 p m Room Bellamy 048 Instructor Prof Jen Koslow Email jkoslow mailer fsu edu emails will be answered 9am 5pm Monday Friday Class website http campus fsu edu Office Bellamy 453 Phone 644 4086 Office Hours Mondays and Wednesdays 10 00 11 00 and by appointment COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Have you ever watched the Antique Roadshow Read a book by Caleb Carr Listened to a song by Bruce Springsteen Seen an Oliver Stone movie How do these artists engage with historical questions In turn how do public historians communicate history to a wide audience using mass media This course considers various mediums of public history Students will assess the use of film television newspapers magazines radio and the web in the construction of history for a general audience They will also reflect on the relationship between vehicles of mass communication and narratives of history We will explore these issues by focusing on five case studies throughout the semester The Civil War and Reconstruction The Women s Suffrage Movement City Building in Southern California The Modern African American Civil Rights Movement and AIDS Upon completion of this course students will have developed 1 A detailed knowledge of how public historians use mass media 2 An understanding of historians engagement with audiences outside of universities in the U S 3 An understanding of how public historians deal with controversial topics 4 An appreciation for participating in public history projects 5 Essential skills on how to read scholarly articles and primary documents for argument sources strengths weaknesses and perspectives 6 How to write expository essay on a historical topic REQUIRED READINGS Thomas J Brown The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration A Brief History with Documents 2004 George Lipsitz Time Passages Collective Memory and American Popular Culture 2001 Marc Reisner Cadillac Desert The American West and Its Disappearing Water 1993 Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen The Presence of the Past Popular Uses of History in American Life 2000 Alice Walker Meridian 2003 Marjorie Spruill Wheeler One Woman One Vote Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement 1995 Articles listed on course schedule available online through course reserve library o o Ira Berlin American Slavery in History and Memory and the Search for Social Justice The Journal of American History 20O3 90 4 1251 1268 Karen Sutton Confronting Slavery Face to face A twenty first century interpreter s perspective on eighteenth century slavery Common Place 2001 1 4 o David Blight The Birth of a Genre Slavery on Film Common Place 2001 1 4 o Allan M Brandt From Analysis to Advocacy in Locating Medical History Their Stories and Their Meanings eds Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner Johns Hopkins University Press 2004 o AIDS in Historical Perspective from Charles E Rosenberg Explaining Epidemics and Other Studies in the History of Medicine Cambridge Press 1992 HIS4930sec05 Fall 2006 2 o No One s Idea of a Tropical Paradise from Howard Markel Germs Travel Pantheon Books 2004 o Introduction from Paul Farmer Infection and Inequalities U of California Press 1999 o Primary Source Packet for AIDS Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals New York Times July 3 1981 p A20 Cancer Hits the Gay Community New York Native July 13 1981 p 8 Disease of Immune System Becoming a U S Epidemic Washington Post March 17 1983 p A1 Concern Over AIDS Grows Internationally New York Times May 24 1983 p C1 AIDS in Africa A Pattern of Mystery New York Times Nov 8 1985 A1 Minutes from Domestic Policy Council Dec 19 1985 Black People Do Get AIDS 1986 Memorandum for the Domestic Policy Council Feb 11 1987 For Immediate Release June 8 1987 Selections from ACT UP NY Women and AIDS Book Group Women AIDS and Activism South End Press 1990 CLASS WEBSITE We will be using blackboard throughout the semester Here you will be able to find copies of handouts from class and reserve readings will be available through the course library component COURSE SCHEDULE Wk Date Wk 1 8 30 Wk 2 9 6 Topic Wk 3 9 13 Is the Medium the Message Wk 4 9 20 Slavery Wk 5 9 27 The Civil War Brown 1 56 Berlin Sutton Blight articles Brown 57 108 Wk 6 10 4 Reconstruction Brown 109 169 Wk 7 10 11 Wk 8 10 18 Suffrage Suffrage Wk 9 10 25 Wk 10 11 1 City Building in Southern California City Building in Southern California Wheeler 9 20 37 44 45 61 61 80 99 116 Wheeler 203 220 221 244 245 262 263276 277 294 2945 314 Reisner 1 14 52 103 Reisner 145 168 332 378 Wk 11 11 8 Modern African American Civil Rights Movement Modern African American Civil Rights Movement AIDS AIDS Wk 12 11 15 Wk 13 11 22 Wk 14 11 29 Wk 15 12 6 Wk 16 Introduction to the course The Presence of the Past Conclusions Readings Rosenzweig 1 36 89 114 147 176 177207 Lipsitz 3 36 39 75 99 132 163 177 211231 Assignments One page discussion of perspective paper Quiz Walker through chapter Battle Fatigue History Fair draft Newspaper draft Quiz Summary of one source Outline History Fair Final Quiz Walker complete Rough draft Brandt Markel Rosenberg articles Primary Source Packet for AIDS Newspaper final Quiz Paper Due December 13 2006 by 4pm in Prof Koslow s departmental mailbox and the digital mailbox through blackboard HIS4930sec05 Fall 2006 3 COURSE REQUIREMENTS Students must complete all requirements to receive a passing grade in this course Each day an assignment is late it will lose 1 3 of a grade Readings are to be completed before class Please bring your readings to class In discussion you should reference specific passages from the readings to indicate that you have thought about the material All papers must be turned in at the beginning of class as well as to turnitin on the blackboard class site Papers will not be accepted to Prof Koslow s email account Grade Breakdown Requirement Points toward final grade 4 In Class Quizzes Each 5 Total 20 Newspaper Paper Draft 5 Final 20 History Education Resource Draft Final 1 10 Perspective Paper One Page Discussion List of Sources Summary Analysis Outline Rough Draft Final Paper 1 1 1 1 30 Participation 10 Grading Scale A 100 A 99 94 A 93 90 B 89 87 B 86 84 B 83 80 C 79 77 C 76 74 C 73 70 D 69 67 D 66 64 D 63 60 F 59 and below 1 Class Participation Attendance Missing class showing up late or leaving early will hurt your class participation grade because if you are not in class you cannot participate Because this