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    Each week you should submit before the class meeting (Tuesday afternoon at the latest), a one page essay with your reactions to the reading (not summaries, but critiques: reasoned argument is preferred, but gripes and raves are allowed). These will be useful in stimulating discussion. This is mainly a discussion course; I may sometimes give brief orienting lectures, but I will try to keep them short. To be fair, I will commit myself to producing a similar reaction paper, or something longer.

    LEC # TOPICS STUDENT REACTION PAPERS
    1 Introduction  
    2 The Annales School: Origins and Establishment Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    Student B (PDF)
    Student C (PDF)
    3 Labor History; Class as a Historical Category Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    Student B (PDF)
    Student C (PDF)
    4 Race, Culture, and War Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    Student B (PDF)
    Student C (PDF)
    5 Women's History; Gender and Textiles Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    Student B (PDF)
    6 Global History: Economic and Environmental Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    Student B (PDF)
    Student C (PDF)
    7 Historical Demography Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    Student B (PDF)
    Student C (PDF)
    8 The New Cultural History[1]: Microhistory Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    Student B (PDF)
    9 Environmental History Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    Student B (PDF)
    10 The New Cultural History [2]: Post-modern and Post-structural Approaches to the Representation of Space Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student C (PDF)
    11 New Military History, in Print and on Film Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    12 Historical Memory and History Wars Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    Student B (PDF)
    13 History and Fiction Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    Student B (PDF)
    14 Frontiers in History Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)
    15 Where are Historians Going? The Future of the History Profession Jennifer Yum (PDF) Courtesy of Jennifer Yum.
    Student A (PDF)