Integrating History and Literature in the Honors Classroom

1. Syllabus for HSS 502, Fall 1999; Syllabus for AMS 241, Spring 2000.

2. Timeline of Course Readings by date of production and coverage

3. Field Trips for HSS 502, Fall 1999

4. Critical Concepts and Models

a. Social Construction (Frederick Jackson Turner and the Frontier Thesis)

1) Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893), Questions to Consider

2) The Frontier as an American Idiom

b. Audience and Medium (Three Ways of "Reading" The Grapes of Wrath)

1) John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies (1936) and Selections from The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Questions to Consider

2) John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Questions to Consider

c. Genre (Mary Rowlandson and The Captivity Narrative)

d. Experience and Place (Landscape Reading Hike with Henry David Thoreau)

1) Wildness

e. "Mystery" and Oral Tradition (Robert Johnson and The Blues)

1) Sources for the Blues

2) Peter Guralnick, Searching for Robert Johnson (1989), Questions to Consider

f. Encoded Social Commentary (The Martian Chronicles Chronicles)

1) Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (1950), Questions to Consider

g. Authenticity (The Gift Shop and the Gallery)

1) Trip to the National Museum of the American Indian, Battery Park

2) Authenticity

h. Syncretism (Mary Austin and The Enchiladas)

1) Mary Austin, Land of Little Rain (1903), Questions to Consider

2) Chicken Enchiladas

1. Knowing the WWW as a Medium: The Web Tutorial and Evaluating a Website

2. The Course Website, or, Beyond the Syllabus: HSS 502 Course Website

3. Web Storage of Materials:

a. Reading Assignments: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925)

b. Viewing Assignments: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

c. Writing Assignments: HSS 502 Writing Assignments, Fall 1999

d. Multimedia: Sources for the Blues

e. Students as Editors: The New York Women's Biography Hub, with Tags Worksheet and Template

4. Visual Analysis Using a "Virtual Slide Show": Images of the Colonial Family and Beyond

5. Textual Analysis Using Hypertext: Women's Biography and Gender-Bending in Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928)

6. Contextual Analysis Using Hypertext: The Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments Compared.

7. Putting It All Together: The Liberty Rhetoric Site as a Virtual Archive