Assignments
Each week you should submit before the class meeting (perhaps by Tuesday evening), a one page discussion of 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. (You can submit these by email if you want, to a group list we will devise.) Also, you will be asked each week to report on one of the supplementary readings, orally: this can be more of a summary with critique and should be geared to the exchange of information between students reading different selections.
Below are a number of samples of student reaction papers for each class session.
| SES # | TOPICS | STUDENT PAPERS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Classic Problems in Periodization |
(Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Xaq Frohlich. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Andrew Jakabovics. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
| 3 | The Annales School |
(Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Xaq Frohlich. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Andrew Jakabovics. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
| 4 | Labor History: Class as a Historical Category |
(Courtesy of Xaq Frohlich. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Andrew Jakabovics. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
| 5 | Women's History: Gender as a Historical Category |
(Courtesy of Xaq Frohlich. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Andrew Jakabovics. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
| 6 | Global and Comparative History: Economic and Environmental |
(Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Xaq Frohlich. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Andrew Jakabovics. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
| 7 | Historical Demography |
(Courtesy of Xaq Frohlich. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Andrew Jakabovics. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
| 8 | Environmental History |
(Courtesy of Xaq Frohlich. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Andrew Jakabovics. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
| 9 | The 'New' Cultural History |
(Courtesy of Xaq Frohlich. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Andrew Jakabovics. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
| 10 | History and Fiction |
(Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Xaq Frohlich. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Andrew Jakabovics. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
| 11 | Race and Culture |
(Courtesy of Xaq Frohlich. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
| 12 | Nationalism(s) |
(Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Xaq Frohlich. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of Andrew Jakabovics. Used with permission.) (PDF) (Courtesy of an Anonymous Student. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
| 13 | Where are Historians Going? The Future of the History Profession | (Courtesy of Andrew Jakabovics. Used with permission.) (PDF) |
