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 700H – Spruill &V. Littlefield (Sect. 1 & 2) W 5:30-8:00 SOST Lib.

“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 700V - Miller, T 2:00-4:30 Gamb. 403

“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 700W - Lekan Th 2:00-4:30 Gamb. 149

“Envisioning Landscapes: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination” (Meets requirements for fields in “US Since 1789,” “Modern Europe,” “History of Culture, Identity, and Economic Development.”)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Landscapes are products of human interaction with the natural environment over time, yet until recently historians have left the study of this interaction to other scholarly disciplines, such as geography, ecology, and anthropology. In the past few decades, however, environmental history has emerged as a new field of inquiry that explores the role and place of natur in human life. Environmental historians seek to understand how nature has enabled and set limits for human actions; how people have modified the ecosystems they inhabit over time; and how different representations of the organic world have shaped beliefs, values, economies, politics, and cultures. Recently, American environmental historians have questioned the concept of “wilderness,” arguing that all landscapes, even the supposedly untouched expanses of the American West, are cultural artifacts that embody historically specific social values and ideological assumptions. Landscape is thus a crucial site for investigating the dynamic interplay between nature and culture.

Hist. 701 – Kross Th 2:00-4:30 Gamb. 403

Hist. 702 – Johnson Th 9:30-12:00 Gamb. 149

Hist. 707B-Mackenzie T 9:00-11:30 Gamb. 149

Hist. 720 – Gerth F 9:30-12:00 Gamb. 149

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 – Edwards M 5:30-8:00 Gamb 149

Hist. J790 – Schulz M 4:00-5:50 TBA

Hist. 792 – Weyeneth 2:30-5:00 Gamb. 149

Hist. 802 – MM Smith 5:00-7:30 Gamb. 149

Hist. 803 – Clements M 9:00-11:30 Gamb. 149

Hist. 816 – Schulz T 2:30-5:00 Gamb. 246

Hist. 700A - Doyle, T, 5:00-7:30

“Internationalizing American History.” (Meets requirements for fields in US Since 1789,” and CIED.)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Introduces students in US and other areas of history to the growing movement among historians of the US and elsewhere to transcend the conventional national boundaries of the study of the past. More than any other discipline, historical research has operated within the confines of the nation as the main unit of study. There are currently strong interests in moving beyond that tradition. This course is part of that effort in its attempt to understand America with a broader international context.

History 700B – Harrison, M, 5:30-8:00

“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 700C - M.S. Smith, M, 2:45-8:15

“ 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.

Hist. 702 – Ford, M, 9:00-11:30

Hist. 703 – Sklaroff, Th, 2:00-4:30

Hist. 712 – Weyeneth, W, 12:00-2:30

Hist. 748 – Perkins, T, 9:30-12:00

Hist. 764 – Spruill, W, 5:30-8:00

Hist. 766 – Clements, Th, 5:00-7:30

Hist. 815 – Ames, F 10:00-12:30