Fall 2001

History 700C - D.Littlefield TTH 2:00-3:15, Gamb 130
Development of Plantation Society in the Americas
   (Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic    Development," and "US to 1877.")
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   This course is a comparative and somewhat interdisciplinary look at various plantation societies in the New World. It will consider the antecedents of New World plantations in the Old World, making reference to the Mediterranean and Portuguese settlements in the Gulf of Guinea. It will contrast the societies that grew up in the Caribbean with those on the American mainland, and those in North with those in South America, outlining social, cultural, demographic, agricultural and other environmental determinants of distinction. It will consider the character of race relations, including the quality of miscegenation, in these societies and consider factors that united and divided them; and it will look at changes in these societies over time.

History 700H -Maney W 11:15-1:45, Gamb 149
The Study of History
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   This is a graduate introduction to the study of history designed for students who intend to become professional historians. The course has two principal objectives. First, students will learn how historians have debated the task of writing history and the role of the professional historian since the creation of university history departments in the 1890s - with the focus on methodological and theoretical debates since 1970. We will begin with Peter Novick's history of the American historical profession and the argument that it has raised, then move on to a series of specific problems of documentation and interpretation in political, social, and cultural history. Students should emerge from the readings with a firm understanding of how professional historians currently view history - or, conversely, of how they have rendered themselves hopelessly divided and confused. The course will conclude with an intensive exercised in the problems of documenting and interpreting a single event and of situation that event within a historiographical and theoretical framework.
   Second, this is a course in the development of fundamental academic and professional skills. Each week's readings are designed as exercises in how to read for interpretation as well as detail, and how to do so efficiently and - when it is appropriate - quickly. Finally, members of the USC history department will visit the seminar periodically to discus such questions as how to choose a research topic, how to prepare a conference paper, how to get published, how to find employment, and how to design a survey course for undergraduates.

History 700N - Grier W 5:30-8:00, Gamb 149
The History of Housing in America
   (Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic    Development," "US to 1877," and "US since 1789.")
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   The focus is on topics in the history of housing in North America. It includes the evolution of vernacular building traditions from the colonial era to the present, including modern manufactured housing; effects of industrialization and urbanization on American housing, from the boarding house to the luxury apartment; the rise of the suburb; the development of domestic technologies; as well as discussions of gender, ethnic, and class identity in spatial arrangements.

History 700P - Johnson W 5:30-8:00 Gamb 150
"Readings in Nineteenth Century United States History"
   (Meets requirement for field in "US to 1877.)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   This is a course of graduate readings in the social and cultural history of the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War. Topics include the social history of work, family history, religious history, the beginnings of consumer society, the history of reading and other forms of communication, the rise of commercial amusements, and related subjects. Most readings will concern regions outside the South, but a comparative focus - always implicit, often explicit - will be maintained throughout the course.

History 700W- Hendricks Th 2:00-4:30 Flinn (Cross-listed with WOST 796A)
"African American Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"
   COURSES DESCRIPTION
   An examination of the impact of race, gender, and class on the lives of Black women and an exploration of the historical relationship between African American women, work, family, community, and politics.

Hist. 701 - Kross T 2:00-4:30 Gamb 150

Hist 702 - Johnson Th 5:00-7:30 Gamb 149

Hist 734 - Augustinos Th 2:00-4:30 Gamb 150

Hist 752 - D. Littlefield T 5:00-7:30 Gamb 149
      Course Subtitle - "Race and Slavery in Colonial America"
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   This course will focus on race relations and the development of slavery in Colonial America. We will concentrate this semester basically on the nature of interaction between two immigrant groups, Africans and Europeans, and the ways in which they worked out their common destiny in a new environment, under circumstances of inequality and in the presence of a third group. We will consider both those regions that became slave societies, including, perhaps, some of those in the Caribbean, and those that were merely societies with slaves. We will also look at the ways in which a revolutionary society, devoted to liberty, reconciled itself to the existence of slavery and how and why the institution died in one region of the new nation while it continued in another. We will make reference to the historiography of American slavery, race relations, and the significance of contact with Native Americans, and consider the ways in which interpretations of these topics have changed when viewed from the perspective of the eighteenth century and earlier (rather than the viewpoint of the nineteenth century), and when they are approached in a comparative fashion. We will look at the transformation of slavery and race relations as the nation moved from the eighteenth into the nineteenth century. Finally, we will consider what other disciplines, such as anthropology, archaeology, folklore and material culture have to contribute to the study of early America in regard to peoples who did not leave much in the way of written records.

Hist 783 - Frazier M 5:30-8:00 Gamb 149
   Course Subtitle - "Memory, Violence, and History"
   (Meets requirements for field in "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic    Development.")
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   This seminar familiarizes students with contemporary cultural and social theory (using Lemert, Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings) as it contributes methodologically to productive research projects. Specific case studies deal with comparative issues of memory and violence, including works on Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the United States. Students will be able to tailor their own work, to some extent, to their own geographic area of interest.

Hist 788 (001) - Schulz T 2:00-4:30 Gamb 141

Hist 788 (002) - Weyeneth T 2:00-4:30 Gamb 129

Hist 790 - Schulz - M 5:30-8:00 Gamb 141

Hist 796 - Connelly - M 2:30-5:00 Gamb 149

Hist 835 - Herzstein - M 5:30-8:00 Gamb 150

Hist 852 - C. Wilson - W 2:30-5:00 Gamb 149

Graduate Courses, Spring 2002

Hist 700R (Hist. 700, Sect. 001) - Brown "Memory in Europe and America, 1790-   1940." T 2:00-4:30, GAMB 149.
   (Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic    Development," "Modern Europe," "US to 1877," US Since 1789.")
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   This course will prepare students to contribute to the rapidly growing scholarship on social memory in Europe and the United States. Central topics will include the relationships between the development of collective memory and the forces of democracy, nationalism, war, and urbanization; the relationships between the construction of memory and the construction of gender; and the relationships between popular memory and historical scholarship. The course will focus primarily on the nineteenth century. Although, it will look into the eighteenth-century sources of commemorative culture and will devote significant time to examining the impact of World War I and the early twentieth century conceptions of modernism on patterns of social memory. Students will prepare brief papers on independent reading that supplements the shared assignments on which class discussions will center, write a historiographical essay, and undertake a collaborative research project.

Hist 700S (Hist. 700, Sect. 002) - Krylova "Problems in Women's and Gender    History." T 5:00-7:30, GAMB 149.
   (Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic    Development," "Modern Europe.")
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   The course covers contemporary topics in Women's and Gender history and investigates theoretical approaches worked by gender and women's historians. Through the prism of gender, it investigates both the categories of historical analysis such as class, race, and identity and their history in the field of women's studies. It offers a broad overview of European and American history since the sixteenth century to the present. The readings include both secondary sources and primary documents.

Hist 700U (Hist. 700, Sect. 003) - MacKenzie "Warfare and Society in the Modern    World." Th 5:00-7:30, GAMB 149.
   (Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic    Development," "Modern Europe.")
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   This course aims to expose students to the varied interactions between societies and warfare from the fifteenth century down through the twentieth century. Western developments will receive due consideration, but events and processes in the non-Western world shall also receive a good deal of emphasis. Themes to be explored will include the connections between socio-cultural norms within various societies and their 'ways of war', civil-military relations, technological developments, and attempts at root-and branch military reform in the face of external threats. The place of War & Society as a sub-discipline within History will also be examined.

History 700V (Hist. 700, Sect. 4) - PP Miller "Cultural Institutions and Public    Memory in American Life." M 2:30-5:00, GAMB 204.
   (Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic    Development," "Public History," "US Since 1789."
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   This course will acquaint students with the major private and federal institutions, ranging from the Smithsonian and the National Archives to humanities councils and historic sites. The focus will be on an examination of the establishment of these cultural institutions and how they have evolved over time in response to the interests and concerns of both the Congress and the American people. Students will become familiar with a growing body of historical literature that analyzes the importance of memory and links between the professional study of the past, the public practice of history in cultural institutions, and the way in which the public perceives history.

History 700W (Hist. 700, Sect. 005) - Hendricks "African American Women in the    19th and 20th Centuries." Th 2:00-4:30, Flinn 101.
   (Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic    Development," US since 1789.")
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   An examination of the impact of race, gender, and class on the lives of black women and an exploration of the historical relationship between African American women, work, family, community, and politics.

Hist 702 - MM Smith. M 5:30-8:00, GAMB 149.

Hist 703 - Glickman. Th 2:00-4:30, GAMB 149.

Hist 706 - Edwards. Th 5:00-7:30, GAMB 150.
   Course Subtitle - "The European Family, c. 1300-1800"
   (Meets requirements for fields "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic    Development," "Early Modern Europe," and "Modern Europe.")
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   Using the theme of the European family, this class will explore various topics in early modern European history that affected the daily life and beliefs of "ordinary" people, including the concept of "ordinary" people. Beginning with analyses of the actual structures and environments in which people lived, we will discuss the formation of families, marriage practices, courtship and love, childbirth and child raising, families and economic units, families as health care providers, household management, sexual practices, old age, and generational conflicts. We will also cover aspects of the vast theoretical literature about marriage and families, especially as found in law and theology. While reading will focus on current historiography about the family, primary source documents will also be discussed. Students will be graded on class discussion, book reviews, and a final, historiographical essay on a topic of their choosing.

Hist 712 - Weyeneth (Preservation Practicum). TBA

Hist 753 - Ford M 9:00-11:30, GAMB 150.
   Course Subtitle - "Race and Slavery in Antebellum America."
COURSE DESCRIPTION
   Using an array of monographs and journal articles as common reading, this course will examine how the issues of slavery and race shaped American public discourse during the critical decades between the end of the United States' involvement in the international slave trade in 1808 and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. In particular, this seminar will focus on the changing regional attitudes towards slavery and race and the interplay of those attitudes with American political culture and ideology. Assigned readings will contrast the rise of segregation, white supremacy and intensified antislavery sentiment in the North following the end of slavery in the region with the emergence of a significant colonization movement, intermittent controversy over the internal slave trade, determined efforts to strip free African-Americans of their remaining civil and political rights, and the rise of a sophisticated proslavery argument centered on the metaphor of paternalism which emerged in the Old South after the close of the foreign slave trade in 1808 and the concomitant spread of the "cotton revolution" across the lower portion of the region. As ideas and attitudes about slavery and race solidified in both regions, the impact of these attitudes on state and national politics and their role in the coming of the American Civil War will be evaluated. Course grades will be determined by weekly class discussions and at least two essays analyzing recent historiography on the topics covered.

Hist 762 - Carter. W 5:30-8:00, GAMB 149.

Hist 789 - Synnott. TBA

Hist 844 - Connelly. M 2:30-5:00, GAMB 149

Hist 858 - Maney. W 9:00-11:30, GAMB 150