This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Calendar

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