| Spring 2014 7:00-9:45 T East Hall 220 |
Mr Lehmann East Hall 210, 5573, clehmann@usd.edu clehmann.org Office Hours: 2-3 TTh OBA |
This seminar will survey the history of history writing in the Western tradition from antiquity to the present. After the initial session, students will present oral reports on assigned historians. Participants will determine the critical orientation of these reports at the first session. Immediately before his or her report, each student will provide the rest of the class and the instructor with a summary of the report, typed on one or two sheets, with proper citation of works discussed. Each report should take twenty to thirty minutes; about fifteen minutes of discussion will follow. Each student will present six reports. The reports should focus on the seminar's concerns but include brief biographical summaries. All students should read the relevant chapters of Ernst Breisach, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, 3d ed (Chicago: University Of Chicago Press,2007) [0226072835] and Michael Kraus and Davis D Joyce, The Writing of American History, rev ed (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990)[080612234X] , in preparation for each session. At the end of the semester, each student will submit a short paper (about ten pages) discussing the historiographic concerns raised in the course of the seminar. This paper must include informed consideration of at least four historians treated in the seminar, no more than two of whom may have been the subject of reports by the paper's author.
All written work must conform to Chicago style: see K L Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th ed. (Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 2007) [0226823377], or The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed (Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 2010) [0226104206]. Consult, too, the departmental guide to writing.
Grading will depend on the reports (70%) and the term paper (30%).
Problems (to be determined at first meeting)
14 Jan: Introduction
21 Jan: Greek Historiography (Breisach, 1-51)
28 Jan: Roman Historiography (Breisach, 5276)
4 Feb: Late Antique and Medieval Historiography (Breisach 77-152)
11 Feb: Historiography of the Renaissance and Reformation (Breisach, 153-70)
18 Feb: Historiography in the Age of European Expansion (Breisach, 171-79, 195-98; Kraus and Joyce, 1-47)
25 Feb: Early Modern Historiography (Breisach, 179-95, 199-214)
4 Mar: Historiography of the Enlightenment and Romanticism (Breisach, 205-210, 215-32)
18 Mar: Nineteenth-century European Historiography (Breisach, 232-55)
25 Mar: Positivism and Reaction (Breisach, 268-302)
1 Apr: Nineteenth-century American Historiography (Breisach, 255-67; Kraus and Joyce, 48-238)
8 Apr: Theory and the Annales School (Breisach, 303-361)
15 Apr: Progressive and Sectional History in America (Kraus and Joyce, 239-71)
22 Apr: Contemporary Historiography (Breisach, 377-410; Kraus and Joyce, 311-95)
29 Apr: Term papers due: discussion
