Readings
Hegel, G. W. F. Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History. Translated by Robert S. Hartman. Prentice Hall, 1997. ISBN: 9780023513206.
Revel, Jacques, and Lynn Hunt. Introduction in Histories: French Constructions of the Past. New Press, 1998, pp. 1-63. ISBN: 9781565844353.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. “An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event.” Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Beacon, 1997, pp. 70-107, 167-176. ISBN: 9780807043110.
For fun, look at visual representations of time in Archibald, Sasha, and Daniel Rosenberg. “A Timeline of Timelines.” Cabinet 13 (Spring 2004).
Also study Chronique du monde depuis la création, et des rois de France et d’Angleterre, jusqu’à l’an 1461. [Chronicle of the world since the Creation, and the kings of France and England, through the year 1461.] MS Typ 41. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Questions
Describe two or three characteristics of Hegel’s view of history that you found provocative (or irritating). Is it possible to write Hegelian history at the outset of the twenty-first century?
Partial Bibliography
Hunt, Lynn. The New Cultural History. University of California Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780520064294.
Palmer, Brian D. Descent into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History. Temple University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780877227205.
Kelley, Donald. Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. Yale University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780300047769.
Burke, Peter. New Perspectives on Historical Writing. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780271021171.
Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth About History. W. W. Norton, 1995. ISBN: 9780393312867.
Revel, Jacques, and Lynn Hunt. Histories: French Constructions of the Past. Vol. 1 of Postwar French Thought. The New Press, 1998. ISBN: 9781565844353.
Molho, Anthony, and Gordon S. Wood. Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past. Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780691058115.
Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780521357456.
Bonnell, Victoria, and Lynn Hunt. Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture. University of California Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780520216792.
Kramer, Lloyd, and Sarah Maza. A Companion to Western Historical Thought. Blackwell, 2006. ISBN: 9781405149617.
Downs, Laura Lee, and Stéphane Gerson. Why France? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination. Cornell University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780801475702.
Grafton, Anthony. What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521697149.
