Fall, 2003

History 700C - D. Littlefield TTH 12:30-1:45 Gamb. 130
" The 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 700E - Mathisen T 9:30-12:00 Gamb. 149
" Ethnicity, Frontiers, and the Creation of National Identity in Pre-Modern Europe: Analysis and Case Studies"
(Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic Development," "Ancient World," "Medieval World," and "Early Modern Europe.")

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Issues relating to conceptions of ethnicity, political frontiers, and the creation identity have great contemporary currency. In the case of Western or European civilization many questions related to these conceptual concerns had their genesis in the ferment surrounding the fall of the western Roman Empire and the genesis of modern European nation?states in the fifth and sixth centuries. The purpose of this course will be, first of all to provide a firm grounding in the historical and methodological aspect of frontiers, ethnogenesis, and the ambiguities of national identity, and, secondly to allow each student to pursue research topics consistent with his/her interests. In particular, the course will afford the opportunity to use a comparative approach and make use of different (and perhaps unfamiliar, but no less valuable) methodologies for students of modern European and American ethnicity, identity, and frontiers.

History 700F - MacKenzie W 9:00-11:30 Gamb. 150
" Warfare and Society in the Modern World"
(Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic Development," "Modern Europe." "US Since 1789.")

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 700W - Hendricks Th 2:00-4:30 Flinn 101
" African American Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will acquaint students with some of the secondary literature in African American women’s history from the late Nineteenth Century to the Civil Rights Era. The course examines the impact of race, gender and class on the lives of Black women and explores the historical relationship between African American women, work, family, community and politics

History 701 - D. Littlefield T. 5:00-7:30 Gamb. 149

History 702 - Johnson T. 2:00-4:30 Gamb. 150

History 707B - Augustinos Th. 5:00-7:30 Gamb. 150

History 720 - Gerth Th 9:30-12:00 Gamb. 150

History 753 - Johnson M. 2:30-5:00 Gamb. 150
Course Subtitle-"Readings in Nineteenth Century United States History"

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 or reading and other forms of communication, the rise of commercial amusements, and related subjects. Most reading will concern regions outside the South, but a comparative focus- always implicit, often explicit- will be maintained throughout the course.

History 783 - Edwards, T. 5:00-7:30 Gamb. 150

History 787 - Grier , W. 5:30-8:00 Gamb. 150

History 790 - Schulz, M. 4:00-5:50 TBA

History 792 - Weyeneth, M 2:30-5:00 Gamb. 149

History 802 - Ford ,M 9:00-11:30 Gamb. 150

History 803 - Glickman,T. 9:30-12:00 Gamb. 150

History 816 - Schulz, T. 2:00-4:30 Gamb. 129

Spring, 2004

History 700H -Harrison, M 5:30-8:00 Gamb. 149
" PROBLEMS IN WOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY"

("Meets requirements for fields in "US Since 1789," "Modern Europe," "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic Development.")

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course examines recent scholarship in women's and gender history and investigates theoretical approaches of feminist historians. Through the prism of gender, it investigates other 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 from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

History 700I -M.S.Smith, M 2:30-5:00 Gamb. 150
" ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MODERN HISTORY."

(Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic Development," "Modern Europe," and US Since 1789.")

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Economic growth and economic development (especially "industrialization") are commonly seen to be key factors in the emergence of "modern" nations in the past two centuries. This course will familiarize graduate students with the thinking of economists and economic historians who, in the last 50-60 years, have endeavored to define and explain the dynamics of economic growth and development. Particular attention will be given to the issue of comparative economic development (what accounts for the relative success or failure of different countries in economic development?) . Among the writers that the class will read are Joseph Schumpeter, Simon Kuznets, Walt Rostow, Douglass North, David Landes, Alfred Chandler, Joel Mokyr, and Kenneth Pomeranz. Students will prepare a historiographically?oriented paper on a topic related to the themes of the course.

History 700J -Herzstein, T 5:30-8:00 Gamb. 150
" The Media, Propaganda, and War, 1933-1945."

(Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture , Identity and Economic Developements," " Modern Europe," and "US Since 17889".)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
A study of the media, public opinion, and war mobilization in Germany and the United States. Selected readings in the theory of media impact, with specific case studies drawn from moving image media, print media, and other sources.

History 700K -Miller, T 2:00-4:30 Gamb. 129
" Cultural Institutions, Memory and Politics."

(Meets requirements for fields in "Public History," "History of Culture, Identity, and Economic Development," and US Since 1789.")

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Cultural institutions are the products of historical events and trends as well as the disseminators of history. Memory and perceptions of history are key components in the decisions about the creation and practices of cultural institutions, as well as the reaction of the public to Congress. This course will acquaint students with the major private and federal cultural 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 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 about cultural institutions, the importance of memory as a link between the professional study of the past and the public practice of history in cultural institutions, and the ways in which Congress and historian have approached legislation that deals with funding and programmatic issues related to cultural agencies.

History 700T -Hendricks, Th 2:00-4:30 Flinn Hall.
" Race, Gender, and Identity: Black Women's Auto/Biography"

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to acquaint students with the lives of several African American women in slavery to freedom. Students will examine the ways in which the gendered and racial construction of black womanhood emerged in slavery and defined and confined black women's lives in freedom. Autobiographical narrative and biographical interpretation and analysis will illuminate the methods employed by black women to deconstruct and inhibit the dominant negative perception and manipulation of their claim to selfhood.

History 702- Brown, Th 5:00-7:30 Gamb 150

History 703 -Maney, W 9:00-11:30,Gamb.150

History 712 -Weyeneth, M 2:30-5:00, Gamb.149

History 752 -Kross, T 9:30-12:00, Gamb. 150
Course Subtitle:"Religion and Gender in Anglo-America (Meets requirements for fields in "History of Culture, Identity and Economic Development," "US to 1877" and "Early Modern Europe)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Religion and Gender is an exploration of the ways that religion and gender intersected to form part of the worldview held in seventeenth and eighteenth century Anglo-America. The course will be divided into modules. Readings will be mainly secondary with maybe a brief dip into some of the primary sources just for their flavor. We will begin by reading some of the more theoretical literature about both religion and gender. We will then look at post-reformation England and the cognitive dislocations that the Reformation caused for both men and women. One module will deal with Puritanism and both its mainstream and counter-culture children (think Massachusetts Bay as well as ranters, millenarians like the Fifth-monarchy Men, and Quakers). One module will look more to the mainstream-Anglican rational and prescriptive thought (Archbishop John Tillotson was arguably the most widely read author on both sides of the early eighteenth-century Atlantic), and what about the Spectator? If we have a fourth module it will be decided by the class.

History 789 -Synnott, TBA

History 800G -Connelly, W 2:30-5:00 , Gamb. 149

"LEADERSHIP IN THEORY HISTORY"

(Meets requirements for fields in " History of culture ,Identity, and Economic Developement," "Modern Europe," and " US Since 1789".)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course explores the meaning and character of “leadership” in government, military, and business environments. Considers the relationship of theories of leadership to practice and specific historical cases. Case studies evaluate European and American leadership in “normal” times as well as times of war, revolution, and national crisis.

History 801-Kross, T 2:00-4:30, Gamb. 149

History 815 -Lekan, Th 2:00-4:30, Gamb. 150