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 700L - C. Schulz T 2:00-4:30 Gamb. 141
“ Historians and Documentary Photography: Reading, Understanding, and Using Historical Photography in Historical Research and Writing”
(Meets requirements for fields in “History of Culture, Identity, and Economic Development,” and “US since 1789.”)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course examines the early history and technology of photographic processes and the development of still photography to document events. From early photographic documentation of wars through photojournalism coverage of the Vietnam War, the course will examine the expectations that early proponents of photography had for the medium as a teller of truth; the varieties of ways in which photography has been harnessed as a medium to inform and persuade its contemporary audiences; the ways in which historians have used (or failed to use) photographic images as part of the documentary record; and insights that other disciplines can offer historians as they apply critical skills useful with textual records and documentation of visual resources.

History 700S - V. Littlefield Th 5:00-7:30 Gamb. 150
“ Women in Southern History, 1865-Present”

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Students will explore the role of gender, class, race, and region in understanding Southern women ’s experiences. Readings, films, music, guest speakers, and discussions will be used to illuminate the myths and realities of Southern women during the 19th and 20th
centuries.

History 700N - Atkinson T 5:00-7:30, Gamb. 150
“ Ethnicity and History in Africa and Elsewhere”
(Meets requirements for field in “History of Culture, Identity, and Economic Development.”)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
As the twenty-first century dawns, ethnicity seems entrenched as a powerful presence throughout much of the world - as political idiom and mobilizing ideology, as an incresingly significant part of popular consciousness and culture, and as a major focus of academic discourse, within and across disciplines of anthropology, political science, sociology, and history. This course takes as a starting point the centrality of ethnicity in Africa (and elsewhere), both as phenomenon in the real world – however “imaginary” it might also be – and as a topic for analysis and debate. Primarily within the context of sub-Saharan Africa, I propose in this course to attempt to come to some understanding concerning the complex issues surrounding collective identities in general, and ethnicity in particular. Although the readings have primarily an African focus, the theoretical issues and sociohistorical dynamics covered by these readings have direct relevance for other parts of the world.

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

Hist. 702 - Johnson M 2:30-5:00 Gamb. 150

Hist. 720 - Glickman F 9:30-12:00 Gamb. 150

Hist. 761 - Wilson Th 2:00-4:30 Gamb. 149

Hist. 783 - Harrison M 5:30-8:00 Gamb. 149

Hist. 787 - Grier W 5:30-8:00 Gamb. 149

Hist. 792 - Weyeneth T 2:00-4:30 Gamb. 130

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

Hist. 802 - Johnson W 9:30-12:00 Gamb. 150

Hist. 803 - Maney T 9:30-12:00 Gamb. 150

Hist. 816 - Weyeneth Th 2:00-4:30 Gamb. 130

Hist. 700R - Perkins, Th 2:30-5:00, Gamb. 150
“Aspects of the Study of Tourism”
Meets requirements for field in “History of Culture, Identity, and Economic Development.”)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The study of tourism and tourists has, in the recent past, gained recognition as an important contributor to the intellectual discourse in several humanities and social science disciplines. Extensive bodies of work have appeared in such fields as Anthropology, Economics, Literature, and Sociology, but historians have been slow to engage with this topic. Nevertheless, a number of those scholars who have looked at issues relating to tourism from a historical perspective have produced useful studies that illuminate cross-cultural aspects of the “Self – Other” dichotomy; present valuable insights on processes of economic development (particularly, but not exclusively, in non-Western areas where tourism functions as a central element of the economy); and illustrate many of the social dilemmas frequently accompanying the rapid and extensive cultivation of tourism. After beginning with interdisciplinary readings in the theoretical literature on tourism , the seminar will take up an examination of representative monographic works from history and from other disciplines and including studies set in North American, European, and non-Western contexts.

Hist. 700T - Scardaville, W 5:30-8:00, Gamb. 150
“The Development of the State in Comparative Perspective”
(Meets requirements for fields in “Latin America” and History of Culture, Identity, and Economic Development”)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The proposed comparative and interdisciplinary readings seminar will introduce students to recent works on one of the major themes in Latin American history: the process of state formation. Using Latin America as a case study, with explicit references to state building in other regions of the world, the seminar will focus on the creation, disintegration, and reconstruction of state regimes from the late eighteenth century to the present. In order to provide a comparative and cross-cultural perspective, the course will be organized around two questions: (1) how is rule accomplished, i.e. what establishes consent, authority, and power; and (2) how do popular groups assert, contest, and shape authority and power? These questions are designed to provide theoretical and empirical frameworks to address and understand similar issues and processes in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. No previous knowledge of Latin American history is required.

Hist. 700U - Sullivan, T 5:30-8:00, Gamb. 149
“African American Civil Rights Struggles in the Twentieth Century”

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will focus on recent scholarship, as well as some classic works, that contribute to a new and more complex understanding of black struggles for freedom and citizenship in the twentieth century. Readings will focus on ways in which African Americans experienced and challenged racial discrimination and exclusion in the Jim Crow South as well the spread of racial discrimination in the North and West in response to black migration and urbanization, particularly from the World War I era through the 1950s. They will include local studies, such as Tera Hunter’s work on Atlanta at the turn of the century and Martha Biondi’s recent book on postwar New York, as well as articles and monographs that focus on the role of the law, national trends and developments that contributed to the emergence of a national civil rights movement, and other topics. The class will also consider the impact of the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s on black life and race relations in the latter decades of the twentieth century.

Hist. 700V - 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 Development,” “Modern Europe,” and “US Since 1789.”)

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.

Hist. 700W - Doyle, W 9:30-12:00, Gamb. 150
“Nationalism and Regionalism in Comparative Perspective.”
(Meets requirements for fields in “History of Culture, Identity, and Economic Development,” “Modern Europe,” and “US Since 1789.”)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to introduce students to the scholarly conversation on nationalism, particularly as it has evolved since the 1980s, and to encourage comparative international study by taking up several case studies in the Americas and Europe. The nationalism debate has remained focused on Europe with little attention to the Americas; this seminar will try to bridge this gap, bringing the theory of nationalism to bear on the American experience, and vice versa. The approach will be comparative and interdisciplinary. We will deal primarily with the creation of modern nations in the Americas and Europe during the “long nineteenth century” from the American Revolution to World War I. A central problem we will explore is the national imperative toward unification and the countervailing penchant among sub-national minorities, particularly geographic regions, to resist homogenization and central authority. The case of the United States, its revolutionary struggle to unify and its ongoing effort to build a national identity, and its violent ordeal of secession and civil war, will be most familiar to many of the students. We will examine other nations that confronted parallel problems in the effort to unify: including Britain, France, Italy, Cuba, Brazil, and Canada.

Hist. 702 - Mark Smith, Th 5:00-7:30, Gamb. 149

Hist. 703 - Spruill, T 2:30-5:00, Gamb. 149

Hist. 707A - Michael Smith, M 2:30-5:00, Gamb. 150

Hist. 757 - Hendricks, Th 2:00-4:30, Fl. 101

Hist. 764 - Synnott, M 5:30-8:00, Gamb. 150

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this course is to provide you with an understanding of how gender identities (femininity and masculinity) have been formed and how they have functioned in American/Southern/South Carolina history. You also have the opportunity to study in depth areas related to your particular interests. For example, you may examine the history of American/Southern/South Carolina women in terms of their individual achievements, kinds of work, and in relation to larger movements such as Progressive reform, civil rights, and the World Wars. You may also write papers on such topics as Women in Athletics, Business, Politics, Historic Preservation, Teaching and other professions.

Hist. 801 - Kross, W 9:30-12:00, Gamb. 149

Hist. 815 - Lekan, Th 9:00-11:30, Gamb 150