Course Description Booklet Autumn Quarter, 2008

The Department of History has compiled information in this booklet to assist students in selecting courses for Autumn Quarter, 2008. The descriptions are accurate as of April 4, 2008. Please be aware that changes may be made.

A printed version of the coursebook is also available in the History office, 106 Dulles Hall.

AFRICAN HISTORY | AMERICAN HISTORY | ANCIENT HISTORY | ASIAN & ISLAMIC HISTORY | EUROPEAN HISTORY | JEWISH HISTORY | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY | MILITARY HISTORY | THEMATIC COURSE OFFERINGS | WOMEN'S HISTORY | WORLD HISTORY

AFRICAN HISTORY

HISTORY 121 AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS TO 1870
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course surveys the history of pre-modern African civilization with a focus on specific episodes in the continent’s political, economic and cultural developments.  We will explore some of the internal and external factors that account for the rise and decline of various African empires and states as well as the impediments the continent encountered in the course of its economic, political and cultural developments prior to formal colonial domination.

Time                Meeting Days              Instructor
10:30-11:48     TR                               Kobo
10:30; 11:30    MW (recitations)
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 122 AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS 1870 TO THE PRESENT
5 Cr. Hrs.

This is the second of two courses in a series intended to provide an introduction to the emergence and growth of African civilizations.  The approach will be to foster an appreciation of the complexities of civilizations in Africa, an extremely large continent, as well as to highlight the main areas of Africa’s contribution to human advancement.  We will in the process examine distortions of Africa’s history as well as the image of Africa held outside the continent.

Time                Meeting Days              Instructor
10:30-11:48     TR                               Ayoola, T
11:30; 12:30    MW (recitations)
                                                                                                                                                    

HISTORY 594 HISTORY OF ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS IN WEST AFRICA
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course will explore the relationship between identity politics and Islamic movements in West. Africa.  Using the decline of the Songhai Empire in sixteenth century as the starting
Point, the course will examine the following questions: how does the struggle over religious purity reconfigure West African Islamic cultural and political landscapes?  How does the diversity of the conception of religious purity contribute to the construction of religious, social and political identities?  In what ways did West African Muslims confront European colonialism and subsequently Western modernity?  We will analyze how West African Muslims constructed their religious identities by localizing Islamic intellectual traditions, healing practices, music, arts, cultural norms and formal and informal religious festivals.  By the end of the course, students will acquire the skills for analyzing the dialectical relationship between Islam and West African social, religious and cultural expressions, especially how Islam transformed and was transformed by indigenous religious knowledge, culture and polity.  Students will also be able to appreciate Islam’s common framework as well as its diversity and dynamics within that larger framework.

Time                Meeting Days              Instructor
1:30-3:18         TR                               Kobo   

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Prior knowledge of African and or Islamic history, at least at the introductory level, is
essential but not required. Group A, pre & post 1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY  742 AFRICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND METHODOLOGY
5 Cr Hrs.

The writing of African history has remained a complex and challenging endeavor for historians.  This seminar will explore various sources and methodological approaches for constructing or reconstructing pre-colonial, colonial and post-independent African histories, in order to provide students with the critical tools for their own research and for teaching undergraduate African history courses. 

Time                Meeting Days              Instructor
1:30-3:18         W                                Sikainga

AMERICAN HISTORY

HISTORY 151 AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS, 1607-1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course surveys the political, constitutional, social, and economic development of the U.S. from the Colonial Period through the Era of Reconstruction.  This course, in conjunction with HIS 152, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the LAR and GEC. Not open to students with credit for History 150.01.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
*8:30-9:48         TR                              
*10:30-12:18      TR                               Van Tine         
*11:30-12:48      TR                                          
*12:30               MWF                          
1:30-2:48           MW                            
2:30-4:18           TR
3:30-5:18           MW                            
5:30-7:18           MW
5:30-7:18           TR
6:30-8:18           MW
*Students signing up for this section must also sign up for a recitation section.
                                                                                                                                                    

HISTORY HONORS 151 AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS 1607 - 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course provides a survey of American history from the Age of Encounter to the Reconstruction period.  It covers the social, economic, cultural, political, and diplomatic history of the American peoples.  We will discuss the experiences of famous people, such as Presidents, diplomats, and generals, as well as the experiences of ordinary people in all regions of the country.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
8:30-10:18         MW                             Cashin

Assigned Readings: (in the past included):
G. Nash, et al., The American People, Vol. I, but because this is an honors section we will also read three monographs on American history.

Assignments:
We will set aside class time to discuss the monographs, and all students are strongly encouraged to take part in discussion.  The class will also write short (one to two page) papers each week on aspects of that week’s lecture material.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Regular attendance is highly encouraged.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 152 AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS SINCE 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course surveys the political, constitutional, social, and economic development of the U.S. from the Era of Reconstruction to the present.  This course, in conjunction with HIS 151, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the LAR and GEC.  Not open to students with credit for History 150.02 or History 150.03.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
8:30-10:18         TR                                          
*9:00-10:18       TR                               Baker  
*11:30-1:18       MW                                        
*12:30               MWF                           Boyle
12:30-2:18         TR                              
2:30-4:18           MW
3:30-5:18           MW                            
3:30-5:18           TR                              
5:30-7:18           MW
5:30-7:18           TR
6:30-8:18         TR
*Students signing up for this section must also sign up for a recitation section.
                                                                                                                                                    

HISTORY 310 HISTORY OF OHIO   
5 Cr. Hrs.

A survey of Ohio history from 1750 to the present.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30-3:18           TR                               Van Tine

Assigned Readings:
W. Van Tine & M. Pierce (eds.) Builders of Ohio, OSU Press
G. Parker, Richard Sisson & Wm. Coil (eds.) Ohio and the World OSU Press

Assignments: Midterm, paper, and a final examination.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, post-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY HONORS 325 INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S HISTORY: THE AMERICAN
5 Cr. Hrs.                               EXPERIENCE

This course is designed for honors students.  It offers an introduction to the study of women’s and gender history by examining key individuals, groups, institutions, events, and developments in United States history from the perspectives of women.  We will read what historians and other scholars have written about women in the past, and we will analyze historians’ sources in the form of documents and images.  We will seek an understanding of three kinds of changes: in women’s work and the sexual division of labor; in relationships between gender and politics; and in women’s family roles and sexuality.  We will pay particular attention to differences among women in such areas as race and ethnicity, class, religion, sexuality and marital status, and the like. 

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
9:30-11:18         TR                               Hartmann

Assigned Readings:
We will use the second edition of Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s Press), which is due to come out just before the autumn quarter begins.  Two additional—much shorter—books, or the equivalent in articles—will be assigned.

Assignments:
This class will be organized as a seminar so students are expected to have completed the assigned reading and to participate in class discussions at every class meeting.  Each student will lead one of the class discussions.  Students will also write two short papers and a 10-page research paper. 

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Honors standing or permission of the instructor.  Group B, post-1750.

HISTORY 346 INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

People of Asian ancestry represent the fastest growing populations in the United States (including the state of Ohio).  Although frequently perceived as recent immigrants, Asian Americans have a long history that extends back to before the founding of the American nation.  This course introduces the field of Asian American history, which focuses on the experiences of people of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, Pilipino, and Southeast Asian ancestry in the United States.  Lectures, readings, films, and discussions will examine the continuities as well as changes in Asian American experience through three chronological periods:  the first wave of immigration (mid-19th to 1934), the years of exclusion and international conflict (the middle decades of the 20th century), and the second wave of immigration (post-1965).  The course will explore two overarching themes:  1) how the experiences of Asian Americans complicate the existing understanding of American race, class, gender, and international relations; and 2) the similarities as well as differences between various Asian American groups, i.e. the historical validity of a pan-Asian American identity. 

Course materials represent a variety of disciplines (Anthropology, Sociology, Literature) and sources (oral history, newspaper articles, film) that contribute to the field of Asian American History. 

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30-3:18           MW                             Wu

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, post-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 557.01 American Revolution and New Nation, 1760-1787
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course will examine the social, economic, cultural, and political changes in 18th century America that culminated in revolution and the creation of the republic. 

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
11:30-1:18         TR                               Newell

Assigned Readings are subject to change, but may include some of the following:
David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride
Sylvia Frey, Water from the Rock:  Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age
Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia
Michael Kammen, The Origins of the American Constitution
Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic

Assignments:  In addition to an in-class midterm and a comprehensive final examination, students will write an 8-10 pp. paper based upon original research.  Students will also be expected to participate actively in class discussion and presentations, including a re-enactment of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
History 151 is strongly recommended.  Group B, post-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 565 FROM THE NEW ERA TO THE NEW FRONTIER: THE UNITED STATES
5 Cr. Hrs.                     1921-1963

This lecture-reading-discussion course analyzes the period in U.S. history from 1921 to 1963.  While the political reform context will frame the chronology, the interaction of cultural and social trends with the political culture will be highlighted.  After establishing the antecedents and nature of the reform impulses in modern America, the course will survey how social, cultural, intellectual, and political-economic forces interacted with one another to create a series of continuous reform movements, from the New Era (dominated by business interests), to the New Deal in time of depression and war, to Harry Truman’s Fair Deal, to the New Republicanism of Dwight Eisenhower, and to the short-lived New Frontier of John F. Kennedy.

The lectures, discussions, readings, and films will give attention to how different groups of Americans (business and political elites, intellectuals, blacks, women, rural and urban groups) responded to the need for reform and particularly how each group interacted with and took advantage of the existing reform impulses.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
9:30-11:18         MW                             Childs

Assigned Readings: 
William Leuchtenburg, Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1929 (2nd edition, 1993).
David M. Kennedy, The American People in the Great Depression (1999).
Michael C. C. Adams, The Best War Ever:  America and World War II (1993).
David Halberstam, The Fifties (1993).
Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955, 1983).

Assignments: 
Midterm, Paper, Final Exam (all take-home); I use turnitin.com.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, post-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 770  STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
5 Cr. Hrs.

The purpose of this course is to teach graduate students the literature on recent U.S. foreign relations and the major schools of thought and interpretive approaches in the field. 

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30-3:18           M                                 Hahn

Assigned Readings:
Each student will be assigned to read and report on approximately ten books and an additional number of articles, drawn from a common reading list.

Assignments:
Six to eight 5-page papers, in addition to active participation in class discussions.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Graduate students only.

HISTORY 772 THEMES IN RECENT U.S. HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

The course is designed to serve History Graduate Students studying for General Examinations in Modern U.S. History (either Major or Minor fields) and Graduate Students in other departments who want to study Modern U.S. history.  This particular version should prove very helpful to students nearing General Exams.

This version will look at the entire “field” of “Modern U.S.”:  1877 to the present.  Indeed, the major question to be answered is, “Is there a Modern U.S. Field?”  Nearly 25 years ago, Alan Brinkley wrote that Modern America is “a field divorced from the main currents of the discipline, fascinated with personalities, shaped by contemporary concerns, mired more in political than in scholarly debates. ... it has not produced questions or controversies capable of connecting it with the larger world of historical scholarship” [Daedalus (Summer 1984), 122]. 

Brinkley (and others) called for a synthesis:  “Writing the history of twentieth-century America ... will require ... a recognition of the unique interconnectedness and interdependence of the modern world, and hence a search for the broader patterns and enduring themes that might begin to make this most complex of centuries comprehensible to its own citizens” (139). 

Where are we in 2008?  In this colloquium we will investigate this “problem” of synthesis in Modern American historiography.  Can a “synthesis” emerge from the messy, contested terrain of this historiography?  How can a field of “Modern U.S.” be crafted from works on foreign policy/international relations/military, women’s/gender, and civil rights/race/ethnic history, economic, business, labor, and consumer topics, immigration, urban, suburban studies, and musings on high/low culture?  Are the Presidential, Consensus, and Organizational Syntheses dead?  Should we throw out “national” altogether in favor of “transnational”?  (Or is it, as one Canadian university described the job opening, “U.S. in the World”?)  Whatever happened to Southern history?  Is the history of the U.S. South more aligned with other areas of the world than other regions of North America?  Is the American West more aligned with the Pacific Rim than the East?  Is there something in a “North American” field?

An added feature of this offering may be the occasional appearance of other so-called Modern American faculty at particular meetings.  This colloquium is designed to be a real discussion on the viability of “the field of Modern U.S. history.”  Can the field stand up to “Atlantic World” or “Latin America” or “Early America” as a field in its own right?  Or, is it time to just eliminate it as a field altogether?  What would replace it?

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
3:30-5:18           M                                 Childs

Assigned Readings:
Readings will include numerous historiographical essays and some synthetic works (e.g., Kennedy’s Freedom From Fear).  Students will develop their own reading lists for the quarter in consultation with their advisors and Prof. Childs; together with the common readings, the total will be about 10 books, the normal load for this offering.

Assignments:
Review essays of the readings and/or a long essay (15-25 pages) that could be submitted as part of the student’s portfolio for General Exams.  The review essays will be shared with members of the colloquium.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is for Graduate Students only.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 785.01 READINGS IN EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.        

In this reading and discussion course, we will review the literature regarding Colonial
America, focusing on issues of interpretation and method.  We will supplement
newer works with important articles and past classics in order to examine the ways
in which the field has changed.  Together we will tackle several questions, e.g. what has
been the impact of recent work in Native American history and Atlantic History on our
understanding of what constitutes Early America?  What are the key benchmarks for
investigation of its history?  What explains the resurgence interest in “empire”—both
continental and international? Do political and economic history have a future?  Do race,
class and gender work well as organizing themes in colonial American history?  What are
the pros and cons of regional studies, and are historians rethinking regional categories in
creative ways?  Have cultural studies approaches of the 1990s reshaped the field in
substantive ways?

 Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
3:30-5:18           Thurs                            Newell

Assignments
Students must complete the assigned readings and come prepared to participate actively and effectively in discussion.  Half of your grade will depend upon the quality of your contributions to the weekly colloquium.  Students will write several short "reaction papers, as well as a final hsitoriographic paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Graduate standing or permission of instructor.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 869.01 SEMINAR IN 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

This is a research and writing seminar focused on 19th and 20th century U.S. history.  We will read a few framework and setting-type articles to get us started (I’ll select them once I see who is enrolled.)  But the emphasis will be on your research projects.  Both those beginning to define their projects and those further along are welcome.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30-3:18           T                                  Baker

ANCIENT HISTORY

HISTORY 501.01 HISTORY OF ARCHAIC GREECE
5 Cr. Hrs.

This is the first half of a two-course sequence that surveys the history of ancient Greece (the second half will be offered in Winter 2009).  The course examines the formative period of Greek civilization, from the Neolithic era (ca. 7000-3000 BC) all the way down to the year 480 BC.  Our primary focus will be on the period's major political developments: the rise and mysterious demise of the Mycenean kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1100 BC); the subsequent emergence of small, village-based chiefdoms and, later, the first city-states in the Dark Age (ca. 100-700 BC); the creation of written laws, political institutions, and, ultimately, the world's first citizen-states in the Archaic Age (ca. 700-480 BC); and the momentous wars against the Persian empire in the early fifth century.  Along the way, we will also explore various social and cultural phenomena associated with these political developments.  Here, particular attention will be paid to the many innovations of the Archaic Age in art, architecture, sports, literature, and philosophy, as well as to broader social issues, such as the place of women and slaves in Greek society.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
11:30-1:18         MW                             Anderson

Assignments:
2 exams and term paper

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, pre-1750.
                                                                                                                                                    

HISTORY 505D01THE EARLY BYZANTINE EMPIRE
5 Cr. Hrs.

Notice: This course will be offered entirely on the Online: there will be no class meetings and all exams and other assignments will be done through the Internet.  There will be no need for you to come to campus for this class and you can be in any part of the world and still participate in it.  Students will follow the normal reading schedule and do all the assignments associated with the course, but there will be no class meeting and students need not ever come to class. 

In addition, enrollment in the class will be strictly limited to 25 students.

All assignments will be submitted over the Internet, using Carmen, the University’s online course software.  Students who wish to enroll in this course must be reasonably comfortable working with computers.  Full details on accessing the course will be sent a few weeks before the beginning of classed to those who enroll, via regular mail to their home addresses and e-mail to their OSU address.

The course is designed as an introduction to early Byzantine civilization and history, A.D. 330-843 (from the founding of Constantinople to the end of the Iconoclast Controversy).  In it we will trace the transformation of the ancient world and the emergence of a distinctly medieval Byzantine civilization.  We will observe the growth and triumph of Christianity and its transformation into a world religion.  We will examine critically the myths concerning the "fall of the Roman empire" and the typical evaluation of Byzantium.  We will attempt to understand Byzantine civilization through the eyes of the Byzantines themselves, examining their values and comparing them with those of our own.  In this regard, we will seek to gain insight into the religious sensitivities of the Byzantines and how Byzantine Christianity expressed important transcendent ideas.  We will also investigate relations between Byzantium and its neighbors and pay special attention to the military developments that influenced the course of history in this crucial period.  The Byzantine Empire represents a fascinating, although little-known chapter in the history of mankind.  This course is designed to explore some aspects of that civilization and to expose you to challenging new ideas.              
Assigned Readings:

The following books are required (both will be available at all OSU area bookstores and elsewhere):

Timothy E. Gregory, A History of Byzantium (Oxford: Blackwells 2005) ISBN: 0631235132
Procopius, Secret History, G.A. Williamson, trans. (NY: Viking 1982) ISBN: 0140441824

Assignments:
Intense (graded) weekly discussion is required (20% of the grade) and a choice of other assignments including quizzes, short papers, a mid-term exam, and final exam; you will be able to choose which of these assignments you wish to submit for your final grade, but all students are required to participate in the discussion, which is conducted using a discussion board built into the course.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
The course is especially appropriate for anyone interested in ancient and/or medieval history and for those who want to understand better the course of current affairs in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, since many of these have their roots in the Byzantine period.

For further information, contact Professor Gregory: gregory.4@osu.edu
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 709 STUDIES IN ANCIENT HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course will introduce graduate students to the advanced study of the history of the Roman Republic through an intensive and careful reading of ancient sources and selected works of scholarship in several of the field’s most important areas of investigation.  It is designed to aid in preparing a field in Roman history for general examinations by allowing students not only to gain factual knowledge about the topics under scrutiny but more importantly to become conversant with the most significant hypotheses and lines of inquiry that scholars working on these topics have developed in recent years as well as the principal criticisms raised against them.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
12:30-3:18         Thursday                      Rosenstein

Assigned Readings:
Many.

Assignments:
Weekly reports; a long final paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Graduate standing.

ASIAN & ISLAMIC HISTORY

HISTORY 141 HISTORY OF EAST ASIA IN THE PRE-MODERN ERA
5 Cr. Hrs.

“History of East Asia in the Pre-modern Era” is an introduction to the societies and cultures of pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan, the countries that make up the geographical and cultural unit of East Asia. Of the great civilizations of the world, East Asia grew up in perhaps the greatest isolation from the West; and one goal of this course is to point up what is distinctive about "East Asian civilization." A second goal is the study of the relationship between the evolution of China, Korea, and Japan as distinct cultures themselves. The course ends with a comparison of China, Korea, and Japan in their encounters with the West at the end of the pre-modern era.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
3:30-5:18           TR                              
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 542.01 INTELLECTUAL & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course explores significant intellectual and social movements that have arisen among Muslims from the inception of Islam in 610 C.E. until the present.  These range from the initial split over the caliphate to the great medieval theological debates to the rise of modern-day Islamic “fundamentalism.”  Special attention will be given to the development of Shiite Islam, with a focus on the background to the Iranian revolution as portrayed in Roy Mottahedeh’s The Mantle of the Prophet, an account of the experiences and intellectual formation of a young Iranian mullah active during the 1970s. 

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
10:30-12:18       MW                             Hathaway

Assigned Readings:
Frederick Matthewson Denny, An Introduction to Islam, 3rd ed.
Roy Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet:  Religion and Politics in Iran
Various excerpts from primary and secondary sources

Assignments:
In-class midterm, paper related to The Mantle of the Prophet, take-home final, participation in group discussions.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group A, pre & post 1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 594 MONGOL WORLD EMPIRE
5 Cr. Hrs.

*Please note this course will be changed to History 544 once it has been approved by all university curriculum committees.

At the beginning of the thirteenth century, a small and relatively obscure nomadic people in the steppe north of China began to forge what would quickly become the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world.  While the Mongol Empire is long gone, it had a profound and undeniable impact on the trajectory of world history.  The destruction of the Mongol conquests was vast and overwhelming, but that relatively short period of trauma was followed by a lengthy recovery under the Pax-Monglica: the Mongol Peace.  For several decades, Eurasia witnessed an unprecedented rise in the movement of people and a corresponding rise in the transcontinental exchange of commodities, scientific knowledge, religious and cultural traditions, and even disease pathogens.  This course will introduce students to the social, cultural and political history of medieval Central Eurasia, paying special attention to the quite regular, occasionally turbulent, but never dull interactions of pastoral-nomadic and sedentary peoples. 

 Time                Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30-3:18           MW                             Levi

Assigned Readings:
Christopher Dawson, The Mission to Asia (Toronto, 1980).
Timothy May, The Mongol Art of War (Yardley, PA 2007).
David Morgan, The Mongols, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA, 2007).
J.J. Saunders, The History of the Mongol Conquests (Philadelphia, 2001).
Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (New York, 2004).

Assignments:
Course work includes a map quiz, midterm, research paper and a final exam.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group A, pre-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 827.01 SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD I: CHRONICLES
5 Cr. Hrs.                  AS SOURCES FOR ISLAMIC HISTORY

This is the first half of a two-quarter graduate research seminar focusing on narrative chronicles as sources for medieval and early modern Islamic history.  During the first quarter, we will trace the evolution of the chronicle genre from sayings of the Prophet Muhammad and early biographical literature through the landmark chronicle of the 9th-century Iraqi historian al-Tabari, medieval Persian provincial histories, and the great chronicles of the Mamluk sultanate.  Our chief focus will be the medieval Arabic and Persian historiographical traditions, but we will also accommodate the early Ottoman tradition, as well as instances in which later Ottoman-era narrative sources are clearly influenced by earlier Arabic and/or Persian traditions.  All readings will be in English translation unless students wish to read in the original languages.  During the second quarter, each student will prepare a substantial research paper using chronicles as primary sources.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
2:30-4:18           W                                 Hathaway

Assigned Readings:
R. Stephen Humphreys, Islamic History:  A Framework for Inquiry
Julie Scott Meisami, Persian Historiography to the End of the 12th Century
Translated chronicle excerpts and excerpts from secondary literature

Assignments:
Biweekly position papers, research paper proposal and presentation thereof, moderating class discussion twice during the quarter, active participation in class discussion

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
A basic knowledge of Islamic history is recommended.
This course is designed for graduate students in History and related departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Comparative Studies, Political Science, etc.), as well as the History of Art.  Students from other disciplines should request the instructor’s permission before enrolling.

EUROPEAN HISTORY

HISTORY 111 WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE 17TH CENTURY
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course surveys the Ancient Civilizations (Near East, Greece, Rome), the Barbarian Invasions, Medieval Civilizations (Byzantium, Islam, Europe), the Renaissance, and the Reformation.  A central text focuses on the course and each instructor supplements the text with several other readings.  This course, in conjunction with HIS 112, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the LAR and GEC.  It is not open to students with credit for 100.01.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
8:30-10:18         MW                            
*9:00                MWF                           Rosenstein       
11:30-1:18         MW                            
*1:30-2:48         MW                             Lynch  
3:30-5:18           MW                            
5:30-7:18           MW
5:30-7:18           TR
*Students signing up for this section must sign up for a recitation section.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY HONORS 111 WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE 17TH
5 Cr. Hrs.                                             CENTURY

This is an honors section of History 111 and will require more reading and writing.  This course surveys the history, society, and culture of Western Europe from Antiquity to the Early Modern period.  It will offer a narrative structure of events, but will also introduce you
religious and political ideas, art, and literature, and the economic and social history of Europe.  The course objectives are to familiarize you with some of the major cultural roots of our own modern world, including United States, and to provide you with a background to make you a more informed tourist when you go to Europe and the Mediterranean.  Much will be new to you in the course, but many of the ideas, institutions, and art forms will seem familiar.  This course is also designed to teach you to read primary sources (those written contemporary to the events they describe) critically, to learn to express your ideas both orally and in writing.  For that reason, the course emphasizes class participation, short written assignments, and examinations.  Each provides you with skills that are valuable to any future courses or professions that you undertake.  This is not simply a course in western civilization, but preparation of skills and underlying background of our world.

This course is designed for students in the OSU Honors Program.  Non-honors students may register for the course with permission of the instructor.  Class size is limited to 25.  An honors class signifies additional reading and writing of several short papers and extensive discussion by the students.

 Time                Meeting Days               Instructor
10:30-11:48       MWF                           Hanawalt

Assigned Readings:
Chambers, Hanawalt, Grew, Rabb, Woloch, The Western Experience: to the 18th Century
Book of primary source reading to be determined.

Assignments:
Two papers, two midterms, short papers and quizzes, final.

HISTORY 112 WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO MODERN
5 Cr. Hrs.              TIMES

This course surveys the political, scientific, and industrial revolutions; the rise of nationalism and the decline of empires; the two world wars and the cold war.  A central text focuses the course and each instructor supplements the text with other readings.  This course, in conjunction with HIS 111, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the LAR and GEC.  It is not open to students with credit for 100.02 or 100.03.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
8:30-10:18         TR
*10:30-11:48      TR                               Kern
*11:30               MWF                                      
1:30-3:18           MW
2:30-:418           TR
3:30-5:18           MW
5:30-7:18           MW
5:30-7:18           TR
*Students signing up for this section, must sign up for a recitation section.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY HONORS 112 WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM THE 17th CENTURY TO
5 Cr. Hrs.  MODERN TIMES

This course is designed for students in the OSU Honors Program.  Class size is limited to 25.  Non-honors students may enroll if space is available.  The focus of this course is on Europe from the Age of Discovery to globalization (1492-present).  In the 16th century, Europe was still peripheral to much of the world.  By the beginning of the 20th century, however, Euro-American flags and interests dominated much of the globe.  The world today is the product of this transformation.  In this course we will study one aspect of the creation of the modern world through the many European revolutions and counter-revolutions – intellectual, commercial, industrial, nationalist, consumerist, and feminist – that helped to bring it into being.  The first half of the course is devoted to European expansion and internal developments prior to 1800, the second half to European domination and its consequences in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Our goal is to think critically about the world in which we live and to write imaginatively about how we can best understand its past.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
9:30-11:18         TR                               Conklin

Assigned Readings:
Levack, et al., The West: Encounters & Transformations
René Descartes, The Discourse on Method & Meditations
Mary  Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of Women
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Primo Levi, Survival at Auschwitz

Assignments:
Regular attendance to lectures and participation in discussion (15%)
Two short papers (15% each)
In-class midterm exam (20%)
In-class final exam (35%)
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 311 WORLD WAR I
5 Cr.  Hrs.

This course centers on one of the most significant turning points in modern world history—the First World War.  Known as “The Great War” until the Second World War, the conflict that erupted during the summer of 1914 and endured for the next four gruesome years transformed the global balance of power, social practices in Europe and around the world, cultural trends and attitudes, the nature of politics, and fundamental economic policy.  In fact, the final gasps of the war could be felt in a global influenza pandemic that carried off over 30 million casualties between 1918 and 1919.  In the end, the pre-war optimism that prevailed in much of Europe, the U.S., and Japan gave way to general pessimism and foreboding around the world. This class will offer students an opportunity to probe this conflict through an examination of the fighting itself as well as the broader trends and changes that generated the war and were spawned by it.  While the war was a fundamentally European affair, combatants from around the world participated and fighting took place in the Middle East, Africa, the Atlantic, and in Asia.  Consequently, we will take a global approach to the Great War and situate it as a transformative event at many levels.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
9:30-11:18         TR                               Beyerchen

Assigned Reading (tentative):
Hew Strachan, The First World War (textbook)
Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring
Arthur Link, Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace
John H. Morrow, Jr., The Great War: An Imperial History
Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis (eds.), Intimate Voices from the First World War.

Assignments: (tentative)
Attendance and Participation:                 15%
First 5-Page Paper:                                            25%
Second 5-Page Paper:                           25%
Final Exam:                                                       35%

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Groups A & B, post-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 331 THE HOLOCAUST
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course will examine the state-sponsored murder of millions of Jews and non-Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.  Together we will trace the interrelated individuals, institutions, historical events, and ideologies that allowed for the Holocaust to occur.

This class does not focus only on the Final Solution.  Instead, in the first part of the course, we will analyze important historical factors that occurred before the Nazi rise to power.  In the next segment of the class, we will examine the crucial period of 1933-1938, paying close to attention to the erratic anti-Jewish policies of the era and the myriad of Jewish responses to them.  In the third portion of the course, we will explore the Final Solution itself.  Next we will study the perpetrators, bystanders, and victims during the Shoah.  Finally, we will consider the Holocaust’s aftermath and legacy among Jews and non-Jews in Germany, Israel, and the United States.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
9:30-10:48         MW                             Judd    
9:30, 10:30         T (recitations)

Assigned Reading (tentative):
Alan Adelson, ed., The Diary of David Sierakowiak (selections only)
Doris Bergen, War and Genocide:  A Concise History of the Holocaust
Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair (selections only)
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Art Spiegelman, Maus I and II

Assignments: (tentative)
Midterm, final, short paper

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, post-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 381 WARS OF EMPIRE: EUROPE’S “SMALL WARS” OF THE 19th & 20th
5 Cr.  Hrs.            CENTURIES           

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe’s empires expanded madly.  In 1800, Europe and its possessions covered approximately 55% of the globe; in 1878, 67%; and in 1914, Europe and its possessions covered 84.4% of the globe.  This grand burst of imperial expansion was only achieved through great military effort.   The wars of empire through which the modern European empires “pacified” the regions they conquered were considered to be “Small Wars,” because they were felt to be conflicts that were imbalanced, with well-trained,  well-equipped regular troops on one side, and what one military theorist called “savages and semi-civilized races” on the other.  In these military clashes of civilization vs. semi-civilization, “civilized” Europe was expected to easily triumph.

History tells a different tale, however.  Time and time again.  Europe’s great empires found themselves challenged and thwarted on the battlefields of Asia and Africa.  This course will examine the means, methods, challenges and results of Europe’s military encounters with the indigenous forces who sought to push back the tide of imperial conquest.  We will look at a number of examples from the histories of the British, French, and Russian Empires, discussing both the military and imperial contexts of these struggles.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
10:30-12:18       TR                               Siegel

Assigned Readings (tentative):
The reading will include:
Callwell, Col. C.E. Small Wars, Their Principles and Practice (1899)
Fraser, George MacDonald, Flashman

Films (tentative):
Zulu
Khartoum
Prisoner of the Mountains

Assignments:
Weekly readings and class discussions
Midterm and Comprehensive final
Two short papers related to the films.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Groups A1, A4 & B, post-1750.

HISTORY 508.01 MEDIEVAL EUROPE I : 300-1100
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course surveys Europe during a time of great transition.  We begin with an overview of the three great empires of late antiquity: Rome, Byzantium, and Islam. Next, we turn to three great themes of the seventh and eighth centuries: monasticism, manuscripts, and mass conversion. At the middle of the course stands the imposing figure of Charlemagne and the first European empire. The course concludes with segments on the Vikings and on the tenth century. In the latter, we break free of Europe to survey the entire world at the year 1000. We will tackle this period on two levels.  First, using a broad historical brush, we will look at how the growth and collapse of empires, the spread of religions, and the movements of peoples between 300 and 1100 formed what we call “Europe.”  Second, through primary source readings, we will work to gain a closer appreciation of the formation of early medieval culture, a dynamic mixture of Roman, Christian, and Germanic peoples, social structures, and ideas.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30-3:18           TR                               Hobbins, D

Assigned Readings (tentative):
Barbara H. Rosenwein, A Short History of the Middle Ages, 2nd ed. (2004)
Volume I: From c.300 to c.1150
John Haywood, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (1995)
Timothy Fry (ed.), The Rule of Saint Benedict in English (1980)
Seamus Heaney (trans.), Beowulf:  A Verse Translation (2001)
Two Lives of Charlemagne (1969)

Assignments (tentative):
Participation (includes paragraph assignments, 10%)
Essay (20%)
Manuscript Project (10%)
Map Quiz (5%)
Midterm (25%)
Final (30%)
Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, pre-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY  508.03 MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
5 Cr. Hrs.

The usual title of this course is Knights, Peasants, and Bandits in Medieval England.  It explores the ways that the ordinary people and some not so ordinary people coped with the major historical events that occurred in England from the Norman conquest to the Tudor dynasty.  We will look at what happened to the Anglo-Saxon population during the conquest, the life of the serf and free peasant, and how this changed over the centuries, the growth of towns and the bourgeoisie, the rewards and problems of being a member of the nobility.  In trying to keep up with historical change, all classes of society resorted to manipulation of the economy and the law.  They also were not slow to use brute force and crime to achieve their ends.  They formed mutual aid societies and relied heavily on family and neighbors as well.  The course is a practical guide on how to survive the Middle Ages.  It is also a guide to touring England in the 21st century in order to appreciate medieval sites.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
10:30-12:18       TR                               Hanawalt, B

Assigned Readings:
C. Warren Hollister, Robert C. Stacey, Robin C. Stacey, The Making of England to 1399, 8th ed.
Joseph and Frances Gies, Life in a Medieval Castle
B. Hanawalt, The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
G. Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse, Trans. By Joseph Glaser

Assignments:
A midterm exam, a paper and a final examination.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, pre-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 514.01 TUDOR AND STUART BRITAIN, 1500-1700
5 Cr. Hrs.

A critical exploration of the social, cultural, religious, and political history of England and the British Isles under the Tudors and Stuarts:  the age of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn, Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare, John Milton and Oliver Cromwell.  The course will examine the crises of the Renaissance, Reformation and Revolution; crown and people, order and disorder, status and gender, plague and war, witchcraft and religion, reading and writing, popular culture, the opening of America, and England’s relations with the wider world.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
11:30-1:18         TR                               Cressy

Assigned Readings:
Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, Early Modern England 1485-1714
(Blackwell, 2004: ISBN 0-631-21393-7)
David Cressy and Lori Anne Ferrell, Religion and Society in Early Modern England: A Sourcebook. Second Edition. Revised and Expanded
(Routledge, 2005: ISBN 0-415-34444-1)
Mark Kishlansky, A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714
(Penguin, 1997: ISBN 01 401 48272)

Assignments:
All students are required to attend lectures, complete reading on time before class, and participate in discussion (10% of grade). You will also be writing a critical analysis of a scholarly article (15%), a midterm (20%) and a final exam (25%) making use of the sourcebook, and an original research paper using primary sources (30%). No make-up exams or paper extensions will be given except in cases of documented emergency.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, pre-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 528 HISTORY OF LOVE
5 Cr. Hrs.

A survey of love in the literature, art, and philosophy of the modern Western world, concentrating on developments in Europe and the United States since 1800.

Love is the foundation for individual human relations, family life, and larger social relationships. It is also a source of intriguing debates about male and female gender roles, courtship practices, and marriage, as well as a number of highly charged issues related to sex--birth control, abortion, prostitution, pornography, rape, and sex crimes. A historical approach deepens understanding of these issues. This course will begin with a brief survey of the remote historical background of this topic and then concentrate on some major developments from the Victorian period to the present. It will center on ideas and practices in Europe but include parallel developments in North America, concluding with a novel by a Canadian woman, who explores love shaped by the influence of modern feminism.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
10:30-12:18       MW                             Kern

Assigned Readings:
Chateaubriand, Atala/René
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (selections).
Stephen Kern, The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns
Diana Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual 3rd. Ed.

Assignments:
First paper 30% second paper 30%, third paper 30%, class discussion 10%. The papers should be 1800-2100 words (6-7 pages).

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, pre-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 537.01 IMPERIAL RUSSIA, 1700-1917
5 Cr. Hrs.

In this course, we will study fundamental events and changes in Russian politics, economics, intellectual thought, artistic life, culture, and society from the reign of Peter the Great to the February and October Revolutions of 1917.  We will strive to understand how Russians lived and gave meaning to their lives during these years.  Russia was an eclectic place in these two ands a half centuries:  creative and destructive Tsars who ruled with absolute power; peasants in bark sandals who waded every spring through knee-deep mud and struggled every fall to bring in the harvest; bomb-throwing anarchists; a multi-ethnic empire which grew during these years to stretch from the German lands in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east (and even into North America), an empire that included peoples from a vast collection of different cultures, religious beliefs and ways of life (and an empire that only came apart with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991); millions of Russian peasants who left their homes to move into Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other cities forming Russia’s working class; revolutions and rebellions; and, at the turn of the century, arguably Europe’s most brilliant intellectual and artistic life, ranging from Stanislavsky’s theater and Nijinsky’s dancing to the Avant Garde art of Liubov Popova, Natalia Goncharova, and Kazimir Malevich.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
10:30-11:48       MWF                           Breyfogle

Assigned Readings:
(This list is tentative and the specific books may change)
Walter Moss, A History of Russia, vol. 1 [Textbook]
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova: Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great.
Dmitrii Rostislavov (Alexander Martin, ed.), Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment: The Memoir of a Priest’s Son.
Nikolai Gogol, The Inspector General
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons.
Leo Tolstoy, “Hadji Murat”
Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia.
Anton Chekhov,“The Cherry Orchard”
Kurban Said, Ali and Nino.  Anchor Books.
Ansky, The Enemy at his Pleasure
and a small Coursepack of shorter readings and articles

Assignments:
This course requires a considerable amount of reading and writing.  2-3 short papers, one take-home midterm exam, in-class final exam, various quizzes, and in-class discussion and activities.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
History 112 or History 336, 538 very helpful. Group B, post-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 594 WAR, PESTILENCE, & SCHISM: THE CRISIS OF THE LATE MIDDLE
5 Cr. Hrs.            AGES

This course explores one of the most pestilential and chaotic periods of the last thousand years. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries witnessed famine and pestilence on a scale never before recorded in human history; a long, destructive series of military campaigns known as the Hundred Years’ War; a Church split in two during the Great Schism; and a shrinking economy and static or declining population. But not all was gloom and despair. This period also saw important new trends in the arts, the explosion of vernacular literature, the birth of humanism, the beginnings of modern drama, and the introduction of movable type into Western Europe. By the close of this period, Europe was on the brink of world domination. We will tackle this period through a wide-ranging examination of primary sources. We will begin by interrogating a medieval chronicler, Jean Froissart, embedded with the troops in fourteenth-century France. Next, we will explore different reactions to the greatest plague in human history, the Black Death. We will then turn to one of the greatest female writers of the Middle Ages, Christine de Pizan, and consider how she responded to an ethic (courtly love) which often put women at a disadvantage. Margery Kempe, another charismatic woman, will introduce us to the strange world of fifteenth-century devotion. Finally, the trial of Joan of Arc will give us a front-row seat at “the trial of the fifteenth century.”

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
9:30-11:18         TR                               Hobbins, D

Assigned Readings (tentative):
Rosemary Horrox (ed. and trans.), The Black Death

Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Duke of True Lovers (1991)

Jean Froissart, Chronicles (1978)

Daniel Hobbins (trans.), The Trial of Joan of Arc (2005)

The Book of Margery Kempe

Assignments (tentative):
Participation (includes paragraph assignments, 10%)
Book Review (20%)
Miracle Play (10%)
Map Quiz (5%)
Midterm (25%)
Final (30%)

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, pre-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 712 STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

Once upon a time historians of the French Revolution wrote in an Eden of wide unanimity provided by the Marxian explanation.  Spelled out in the terminology of the Enlightenment though it was, the French Revolution in this model was at basis a socio-economic event whereby a bourgeois and proto-capitalist class state displaced an aristocratic and neo-feudal order for which Catholicism and antiquated constitutionalism had similarly functioned as justifications.  Alas, having tasted of the apples of Anglo-Saxon empirical “knowledge”and Left-Bank “post-knowledge,” historians of this Revolution have experienced great doubt and no little discord, breaking up into Babel-like discordant “discourses” that have despoiled the innocence of historiographical concord.  This course will hence survey the secondary literature of the unraveling of the Marxian explanation of the origins and course of the French Revolution while taking stock of where, if anywhere, the cause of “revisionism” is taking it.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
3:30-5:18           W                                 Van Kley

Assigned Readings:
In addition to current literature including manuscript essays now going into the making of a new book on the origins of the Revolution, the course reading will not neglect such classics as Alexis de Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the French Revolution or Georges Lefebvre’s The Coming of the French Revolution. The main requirements are engaged participation in the discussions of assigned books and articles (about a book and an article per week) and a twenty-page paper on an aspect of the historiography of the French Revolution.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Graduate standing.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 713A COLLOQUIUM IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES
5 Cr. Hrs.

The History Department’s Early Modern Seminar for 2008-9 will take advantage of the Center for Historical Research program of visiting speakers on “Iberian Hot Spots in the Early Modern World.”  Five meetings in Autumn Quarter will look at Spanish and Portuguese Hot Spots in the Atlantic World; five more meeting in Spring Quarter will look at Spanish and Portuguese Hot Spots in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The exact schedule of lectures will be announced on the CHR website once it is finalized. Copies of each speaker’s paper will be available about one week in advance.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
2:30-5:18           F                                  Parker, G

Assignments:

• Attendance and participation at each lecture.
• Preparation of a set of 3 to 5 questions on the paper, to be delivered to Geoffrey Parker by noon on the Thursday before the paper, and a 2 to 3 page critique of the papers and discussion by the Wednesday following. The questions may be sent by email, but the paper should be hard copy.
• A substantial critical essay addressing central themes of the seminar, due no later than June 5, 2009.

Prerequisites and Special Comments
Grade: An interim “P” grade will be awarded at the end of Autumn Quarter (713A); a letter grade for the work of the whole course will be awarded at the end of Spring Quarter (713B)
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 731 STUDIES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: RACE & SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF
5 Cr. Hrs.            EMPIRE

This course will introduce students to themes in the history of race and the application of these ideas in Western Europe and European empires in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.  Themes to be investigated include race and the abolition of slavery;  the development of scientific racism;  notions of race degeneration and the birth of eugenics;  anti-semitism before 1914;  race, science and imperial power;  Orientalism, Otherness and empire;  racial science in Europe from World War I to 1945;  and anti-racism in the postwar era.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30-3:18           M                                 Conklin, A

Assigned Readings (still tentative):
Robert Bernasconi and  Tommy Lott (eds.), The Idea of Race
Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State:  Germany 1933-1945
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Arthur de Gobineau, The Inequality of the Human Races
Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
Neil McMaster, Racism in Europe
George Mosse, Towards the Final Solution
Edward Said, Orientalism

Assignments:
Regular attendance and participation in class; two papers (10-12 pages each).

Prerequisites and Special Comments: 
Permission of the Instructor
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 740 STUDIES IN RUSSIAN & SOVIET HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

The theme for this quarter’s graduate seminar will be “Russia as Multinational Empire, 1700-1917.”  This intensive reading course is designed to introduce students to the historiography of Russia as a multi-ethnic, multi-confessional empire, and the contours of Russian imperialism and colonialism.  This topic has received significant attention since the collapse of the Soviet Union and has begun to alter fundamentally how the history of Imperial “Russia” is understood.  The course will range geographically from the Baltic provinces and Poland, through the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberia, and includes a discussion of Jewish life.  Topically, the course explores how Russia strove to govern such extraordinary human heterogeneity; how the many non-Russian peoples of the empire experienced and reacted to Russian conquest and administration; how Russians and non-Russians interacted on a daily basis; and how differing non-Russian communities intermingled (or didn’t) with each other within the confines of Russian control.  Throughout, the Russian case will be discussed in the context of Western European, Chinese, And Ottoman empire/imperialism, and theories of empire-building and frontier life broadly.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
2:30-4:18           M                                 Breyfogle

Assigned Readings:
This is a tentative list.  Specific books will change and the final set of readings will be a little shorter.

Michael Khodarkovsky, Russia’s steppe frontier : the making of a colonial empire, 1500-1800
Willard Sunderland, Taming the wild field : colonization and empire on the Russian steppe
Anna Zelkina, In quest for God and freedom : the Sufi response to the Russian advance in the North Caucasus
Mark Bassin, Imperial visions : nationalist imagination and geographical expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865
Edward C. Thaden, Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1710-1870.
Austin Jersild, Orientalism and empire : North Caucasus mountain peoples and the Georgian frontier, 1845-1917
Robert P. Geraci, Window on the East : national and imperial identities in late tsarist Russia
Benjamin Nathans, Beyond the pale : the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia
Andrei A. Znamenski, Shamanism and Christianity: native encounters with Russian Orthodox missions in Siberia and Alaska, 1820-1917
Theodore Weeks, Nation and state in late Imperial Russia : nationalism and Russification on the western frontier, 1863-1914
Adeeb Khalid, , The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia
Robert Crews, For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
Stephen Jones, Socialism in Georgian Colors
Alexei Miller,   The Ukrainian Question:  The Russian Empire and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

Assignments:
Reading: 1-2 books per week
Approx 6 five-page reviews of books of student’s choice
Informed and intelligent in-class discussion

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Open to graduate students only.  Previous knowledge of Russian history is helpful, but by no means necessary.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 803.01 SEMINAR IN BRITISH HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

This is an advanced graduate seminar using primary sources from Tudor and Stuart Britain (c.1480-1720) to explore the history and culture of the early modern era. It is designed for graduate students in British, European, late medieval and early American history and literature, but requires no prior study of sixteenth or seventeenth century Britain. Most of the materials are in English, although Latin and modern western languages may be encountered. The course includes instruction in early modern paleography, in order to use manuscript materials in facsimile, microfilm, and the internet.

Readings will be drawn from a wide range of sources, including documents on line, state papers and parliamentary records, the records of legal and ecclesiastical courts, diaries, letters, literary products, and early printed books. Students will appraise, criticize and employ the various historical sources that expose the social, cultural, economic, religious and political life of the past. We will work cooperatively to compile inventories of accessible primary materials and discuss their pitfalls and potential.  We will consider how each source may illuminate a particular problem or topic, relevant to students’ interests. The work in Autumn 2008 will include bibliographic reviews, close analysis of texts, and presentations to the seminar. Spring 2009 will involve writing and presenting an original research paper based on a chosen source, text, genre, or body of evidence. Subject to re-writing and editing, the final paper may become the foundation for a conference paper, a publishable article, a thesis chapter, or a dissertation proposal.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30-3:18           R                                  Cressy, D

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Open to graduate students only. 

JEWISH HISTORY

HISTORY 331 THE HOLOCAUST
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course will examine the state-sponsored murder of millions of Jews and non-Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.  Together we will trace the interrelated individuals, institutions, historical events, and ideologies that allowed for the Holocaust to occur.

This class does not focus only on the Final Solution.  Instead, in the first part of the course, we will analyze important historical factors that occurred before the Nazi rise to power.  In the next segment of the class, we will examine the crucial period of 1933-1938, paying close to attention to the erratic anti-Jewish policies of the era and the myriad of Jewish responses to them.  In the third portion of the course, we will explore the Final Solution itself.  Next we will study the perpetrators, bystanders, and victims during the Shoah.  Finally, we will consider the Holocaust’s aftermath and legacy among Jews and non-Jews in Germany, Israel, and the United States.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
9:30-10:48         MW                             Judd    
9:30; 10:30        T (recitations)

Assigned Reading (tentative):
Alan Adelson, ed., The Diary of David Sierakowiak (selections only)
Doris Bergen, War and Genocide:  A Concise History of the Holocaust
Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair (selections only)
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Art Spiegelman, Maus I and II

Assignments: (tentative)
Midterm, final, short paper

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, post-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 531.01 MESSIANISM AND CHANGE IN THE JEWISH WORLD
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course will deal with the ways in which Jewish messiahs, messianic speculation and messianic ideas over the course of 2,000 years have acted as agents of change.  Topics covered will include Christianity, Talmudic messianism, medieval and modern movements, and major historiographical debates on the topic.

 Time                Meeting Days               Instructor
10:30-12:18       MW                             Goldish

Assigned Readings:
Matt Goldish, The Sabbatean Prophets
Harris Lenowitz, The Jewish Messiahs, From the Galilee to Crown Heights
Marc Saperstein, ed., Essential Papers on Messianic Movements & Personalities in Jewish History
Packet from Grade-A-Notes

Assignments:
Quizzes
In-class writing assignments
Paper
Take-home bibliographical exercise

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, pre & post-1750.

LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

HISTORY 171 LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS TO 1825
5 Cr. Hrs.

History 171 is an introductory survey of early Latin American history from Pre-Columbian times through independence (1825) that assumes no previous study of the region.  It will meet three times each week for lecture and twice for discussion classes.  The course will focus on a series of historical problems including:  European expansion and the indigenous civilizations of America, the formation of a new “colonial” society, problems of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, and colonial economic and political structures.  Our goal is to convey some basic knowledge about Latin American societies during this period and to provide an interpretive framework for understanding the historical changes taking place.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30                  MWF                           Andrien
12:30; 1:30        TR (recitations)

Assigned Readings:
Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America (text)
Bernal Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain
Catalina de Erauso, Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
Benjamin Keen, Latin American Civilization: History and Society, 1492 –Present
Cathryn Lombardi & John V. Lombardi, Latin American History: A Teaching Atlas

Assignments:
There will be a midterm and a final examination.  In addition, each student will write a 3-5 page paper on Bernal Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 751 STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

History 751 is an intensive reading course designed to introduce graduate students to the major historical problems, historiographical controversies, and methodological changes in the field.  This year the class will read about and discuss a list of selected topics, ranging in time from the pre-Columbian period to the present.  The list includes: (1) European Expansion and the Indigenous Civilizations of America, (2) the European-Amerindian “Encounter,” (3) the Formation of a New Colonial Society I, (4) the Formation of a New Colonial Society II, (5) Reform, Resistance, and Independence, (6) the Early Nineteenth Century (the Caudillo Period), (7) Peasants and Nation-Building in the Nineteenth Century, (8) the Era of Export Economies, (9) the Mexican Revolution, and (10) the Problems of Development and Stability since 1945.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
3:30-5:18           W                                 Andrien

Assigned Readings:
Irene Silverblatt, Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies & Class in Inca and Colonial
Peru.
James Lockhart, The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social & Cultural History of the
Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries.
Florencia E. Mallon, Peasant and Nation:  The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru.

Apart from these three common readings, for the other classes students will each read
separate books and articles taken from the list provided on the syllabus.  He/she is responsible for this material in class discussions, and the book reviews will be based on these weekly assignments.

Assignments:
Grades are based on class participation (15%), two book reviews (20%) of five to seven pages, and a historiographical essay (65%) of approximately fifteen pages on a topic chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor.

MILITARY HISTORY

HISTORY 307 WORLD WAR II
5 Cr. Hours

An introduction to the causes, course, and consequences of the Second World War from a global perspective.  In addition to the study of strategy and tactics, the course also gives extended attention to the war’s impact on the societies that waged it; e.g., the mobilization of the home fronts to sustain the war effort, the experience of enemy occupation (including the Holocaust), and the strategic bombing offensives.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30-3:18           TR                               Guilmartin

Assigned Readings:
Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett, A War to Be Won:   Fighting the Second World War.
J. B. Sledge, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
Richard Baughn, The Hellist Vortex
and others to be determined.

Assignments:
Quiz (15 percent)
1 midterm exam (35 percent)
1 final exam (50 percent)

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
While not required, a good knowledge of 20th century world history is highly recommended.
Groups A & B, post-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 311 WORLD WAR I
5 Cr.  Hrs.

This course centers on one of the most significant turning points in modern world history—the First World War.  Known as “The Great War” until the Second World War, the conflict that erupted during the summer of 1914 and endured for the next four gruesome years transformed the global balance of power, social practices in Europe and around the world, cultural trends and attitudes, the nature of politics, and fundamental economic policy.  In fact, the final gasps of the war could be felt in a global influenza pandemic that carried off over 30 million casualties between 1918 and 1919.  In the end, the pre-war optimism that prevailed in much of Europe, the U.S., and Japan gave way to general pessimism and foreboding around the world. This class will offer students an opportunity to probe this conflict through an examination of the fighting itself as well as the broader trends and changes that generated the war and were spawned by it.  While the war was a fundamentally European affair, combatants from around the world participated and fighting took place in the Middle East, Africa, the Atlantic, and in Asia.  Consequently, we will take a global approach to the Great War and situate it as a transformative event at many levels.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
9:30-11:18         TR                               Beyerchen

Assigned Reading (tentative):
Hew Strachan, The First World War (textbook)
Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring
Arthur Link, Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace
John H. Morrow, Jr., The Great War: An Imperial History
Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis (eds.), Intimate Voices from the First World War.

Assignments: (tentative)
Attendance and Participation:                 15%
First 5-Page Paper:                                            25%
Second 5-Page Paper:                           25%
Final Exam:                                                       35%

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Groups A & B, post-1750.

THEMATIC COURSE OFFERINGS

HISTORY 398 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL THOUGHT
5 Cr. Hrs.

Welcome to the exciting world of history!  In this class we shall as a group explore the field of history, focusing on the concepts and skills needed to study the past.  We shall examine various purposes for the study of history, the perils and pitfalls (and the joys) of working in the field of history, and various approaches and types of sources available for the study of history.  Unlike most other history courses you may take, this one does not deal with any specific nation or time period.  Rather, this course looks at the philosophy and methodology of the field of history as a whole.

This course will be conducted mainly as a workshop and discussion class, not as a lecture class.  Therefore, the success of the class as a whole, and your individual success in the class, depend on your active and informed participation in class activities. You are expected to attend class meetings faithfully, participate actively, and be prepared to discuss ideas from the readings and to listen to your peers. 

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
9:30-11:18       MW                             Blackford

Assigned readings:
John Gaddis, Landscape of History
James Davidson and Mark Lytle, After the Fact, vol. 2, 5th edition
Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time

Assignments:
Paper on Tey:                         50 points
Each Precis:                           50 points
Book Review:                       200 points
Term Paper:                          400 points
Classroom Participation:      250 points
Total:                                  1000 points 

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is required for all students declaring a Major in History in the Spring of 1996 or afterward, and is strongly recommended for students who declared a Major in History prior to the Spring of 1996.  It is a good course for students seeking a Minor in History.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 398 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL THOUGHT
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course provides an introduction to historical methods. Rather than focusing simply on the facts, occurrences and events of history, we will examine the meaning of history and how historians engage in recapturing and reconstructing the past. Therefore, a significant portion of the class will be devoted to various methodological exercises and discussions of the problems historians face such as context, interpretation and meaning.
We will also devote a significant amount of time to the process of historical research which includes identifying research topics, utilization of the library, note taking and the art of historical argumentation. Students are encouraged to see history as a dynamic force in shaping the world in which we live.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30-3:18         TR                               Hall

Assigned Readings:
Eric Foner, Who Owns History: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (New York: Hill and Wang, 2002)
John Tosh, The Pursuit of History : Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of
History  3rd edition (New York: Pearson Longman, 2002)
James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, After the Fact: The Act of Historical Detection 5th edition(McGraw-Hill, 2005)
John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin, eds My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997)
Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001)

Assignments:
Attendance and participation in class is essential to the success of this class. Therefore, excessive unexcused absences (5 or more) will result in the reduction of the final grade by one grade level.  Students are required to write a short 3-4 page paper titled “What is History.”  Several other written assignments and essays will also be required.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is required for all students declaring a Major in History in the Spring of 1996 or afterward, and is strongly recommended for students who declared a Major in History prior to the Spring of 1996. It is a good course for students seeking a Minor in History.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 398 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL THOUGHT
5 Cr. Hrs.

 This course is designed to introduce history majors to the larger field of history and to equip them with the intellectual tools necessary to conduct their own historical research. As a class participant you will engage a number of stimulating readings that present important and influential philosophies of history and historical methodologies, and we will discuss these in class. We will also discuss the various types of sources that are available for historians to reconstruct the past, and the ways that historians interrogate these sources for bias and reliability.  Your written work this quarter will improve your ability to think critically and analytically, and to express your ideas logically, clearly and with erudition.  You will also learn to identify-and think critically about-the uses and misuses of history in the world around us.
 
The required work for the course consists of readings, films, written assignments, research presentations and other in-class activities. As the course is designed as a workshop, its success depends upon student attendance and active participation.  All students are therefore required to come to each class prepared to participate in a courteous, thoughtful and lively discussion.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
10:30-12:18     MW                             Levi

Assigned Reading:
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Cambridge, MA, 1983)
Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time (New York, 1951)
John Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (New York, 2004)
Richard Evans, In Defense of History (New York, 1999)
Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History (4th ed.)
Assignments:
Coursework includes: class participation, two books reviews, one newspaper project; one website evaluation; one brief research paper, one presentation.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is required for all students declaring a Major in History in the Spring of 1996 or afterward, and is strongly recommended for students who declared a Major in History prior to the Spring of 1996.  It is a good course for students seeking a Minor in History.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY H398 HONORS INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL THOUGHT
5 Cr. Hrs.

An introduction to historical methodology for undergraduate history majors.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
8:30-10:18       MW                             Dale

Assigned Readings: (tentative)
Aristotle, Rhetoric
M. Bloch, The Historian’s Craft
Davidson & Lytle, After the Fact
J. Tey, The Daughter of Time
Cantor & Schneider, How to Study History

Assignments (tentative):
4 precis
1 book review
1 essay on an academic journal
1 bibliographic essay

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This is an honors class, non-Honors students must see the instructor to get permission to enroll.  This course is required for all students declaring a Major in History in the Spring of 1996 or afterward, and is strongly recommended for students who declared a Major in History prior to the Spring of 1996.  It is a good course for students seeking a Minor in History.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 527 HISTORY OF THE FAMILY
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course looks at the history of the family and women from early times to the present in Europe and the U.S. and cross-culturally.  We will look at parenting, family structure and values, ideology, utopian communities, the impact of colonialism and other themes.  There is an emphasis on primary source readings and life histories – actual experiences and voices of those studied.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
1:30-3:18         TR                               Robertson

Assigned Readings:
2 texts
3 supplementary books

Assignments:
1 term paper on student’s family history
quizzes
final examination

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Groups A & B, post-1750.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 598.01* SENIOR COLLOQUIUM
5 Cr. Hrs.

A study of Tolstoy’s ideas or theories about history as presented in his epic 19th century novel, War & Peace.

*This course is designed for senior history majors and fulfills one of the requirements for the degree in history.

Time                 Meeting Days               Instructor
8:30-10:18       T                                  Dale

Assigned Readings: L.N. Tolstoy, War and Peace

Assignments:
Short weekly written assignments and quizzes
One essay (12-15 pages)

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Senior history majors.
                                                                                                                                               

HISTORY 598.01* SENIOR COLLOQUIUM
5 Cr. Hrs.

European encounters with the wider world, 1400-1750

The class will examine original documents (in English) as well as articles and books about the encounters