I. Introduction
Week 1: Introduction: How Do Historians Think?
Assignment due: Response paper
Week 2: Writing from an Archive: Race, Slavery, and American Universities
Assignment due: University and Slavery essay (see Assignments section)
II. Historical Analysis and Interpretation
Week 3: What is a Good Question? Historiographical and Empirical Contexts
Assignment due: Response paper
Week 4: How Do Historians Use Theory?
Assignment due: Response paper
Week 5: NO CLASS
Assignments due:
- Paper topics, bibliography, and preliminary research for the final paper due. “Sources for Digitized Archival Manuscript Collections” (PDF) might be a good place to start.
- Response paper
III. Sources Used by Historians
Week 6: Writing from a Diary: Midwife’s Tale in Maine, 1785–1812
Assignment due: Response paper
Week 7: Writing from Environment
Assignment due: Response paper
Week 8: Doing Conceptual History: Japan
Assignment due: Response paper
Week 9: Writing from Oral Sources: Nairobi, Kenya
Assignment due: Response paper
Week 10: History, Commemoration, and Truth and Reconciliation
Assignment due: Response paper
