Key Materials:

Course Syllabus, Spring 2009 || download ||

Historiography Readings: Some Things to Consider || download ||

Study Guide for First Midterm || download || (NOTE: EXAM CHANGED TO 10/20/2009)

Guidelines for Annotated Bibliography Assignment || download ||

Sample Annotated Bibliography (The Historiography of the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Crisis) || download ||

Schedule for Individual Meetings for Week before Thanskgiving Break || view ||

End of Term Procedures, including Questions for Second (Take Home) Midterm || download ||

 

Lectures, Discussions, and Handouts:

Overview of The Historiography of the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Crisis || download ||

Handout -- Annotated Bibliography of The Historiography of the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Crisis || download ||

What is Historiography? || download ||

Handout -- Historiography Readings: Some Things to Consider || download ||

Classical Historiography || download ||

Middle Ages and Renaissance Historiography || download ||

Enlightenment Historiography || download ||

Romantic Historiography || download ||

Modern Historiography || download ||

Handout -- The Annotated Bibliography Assignment || download ||

The Linguistic Turn in Historiography (Saussure, Gramsci, Benjamin) || download ||

Postmodernism and Historiography (Foucault, Said, Geertz) || download ||

Schedule for Individual Meetings for Week before Thanskgiving Break || view ||

End of Term Procedures, including Questions for Second (Take Home) Midterm || download ||

Postmodernism in Contemporary Historiography ("Is She She Not a Man?") || download ||

Course Reader:

Table of Contents || download ||

Introduction to Historiography (Gordon, Cannadine) || download ||

Note: Please SKIM the essays by Gordon and Cannadine; they are examples of historiographical essays. Read them to understand how a historian looks at the development of an historical topic over time.

Classical Historiography (Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus, Procopius) || download ||

Note: Please READ these selections and bring them to class.

Historiography in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Eusebius, Augustine, Khaldun, Machiavelli, Bodin) || download ||

Note: Please READ these selections and bring them to class.

Enlightenment Historiography (Vico, Gibbon, Ranke, Kant) || download ||

Note: Please READ these selections and bring them to class.

Romantic Historiography (Hegel, Macaulay, Marx, Plekhanov) || download ||

Note: Please READ these selections and bring them to class.

Modern Historiography (Acton, Croce, Toynbee, Bloch) ||download||

Note: Please READ these selections and bring them to class.

The Point of Departure in Modern Historiography: Technology, The Individual, The Community (Gramsci, Benjamin, Lears, Schwartz) || download ||

Note: Please READ the Gramsci and Benjamin selections and bring them to class; the Lears and Schwartz selections provide background and explanation, and are worth reading to help you with Gramsci's and Benjamin's ideas about history.

The Cultural/Linguistic Turn in Historiography (Thompson, Geertz, Roberts) || download ||

Note: Please read the Thompson and Geertz selections and bring them to class; the Roberts selection provides a broader background against which Thompson and Geertz are writing.

Postmodernist Historiography (Foucault, Said, Chakrabarty) || download ||

Note: Please READ these selections and bring them to class.

Reacting to The “New Historiography” (Kent, Windshuttle, Vincent, Jenkins, Evans, Hobsbawm) || download ||

Note: Please READ these selections and bring them to class; Kent provides an excellent overview of the debate.

Renaming the Subject: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality (Camfield, Ruiz, Lavender) ||download||

Note: Please READ these selections and bring them to class.

Historiography and the Unwritten Tradition – Indigeneity (Brokaw, Salomon, Miller) || download ||

Note: Please READ these selections and bring them to class; pay attention to the ways that each author attempts to give voice to indigenous histories.

 

 

URL: http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/300/300Reader.html