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History Classes - Fall 2008

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history classes - fall 2008

1st-YEAR SEMINAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY:   SLAVERY AND THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 1321-001H
TTh 3:30PM-4:50—303 Virginia Snider Hall
David Doyle—109D Clements Hall—214-768-2813

This course will trace the development of slavery in the North American colonies—both north and south—its ambiguous role in the American Revolution, during the Texas Republic, through the gargantuan task of maintaining both free and slave states within one union, and finally the culmination of the Civil War and subsequent legal destruction of the now peculiar (and southern) institution.  Particular attention will be paid to recovering voices and controversies—voices of the slaves and masters, women and men, black and white, north and south.  The role of those who opposed the institution will also be explored.  Readings will consist of selections in one textbook, historical monographs, novels, memoirs, as well as more accessible texts by popular writers and journalists.

Readings  include: 1) Eric Foner, Give me Liberty! (selections, Seagull Edition, 2005); 2) Nathan Huggins, Black Odyssey: The African American Ordeal in Slavery (1977); 3) Peter Kolchin, American Slavery: 1619-1877 (1993); 4) Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, The Slaves, and the American Revolution (2006); 5) David Walker, David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829, edition edited in 1995 by Sean Wilentz); 6) Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894, Penguin edition); 7) William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967); 8) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852, Penguin edition); 9) Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996); 10) Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family (1998); 11) Robert William Fogel, The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990 (2003) 


1st-YEAR SEMINAR IN EUROPEAN HISTORY:  HISTORY & LITERATURE IN 20TH CENTURY EUROPE
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 1322-001
TTh 12:30PM-1:50—102 Dallas Hall
James Hopkins—65-DH—214-768-2977

The French writer, Henri Stendhal, believed that “the novel is a mirror being carried along a highway.”  But a work of fiction is not indiscriminate in what it reflects.  It focuses sharply on particular aspects of the human condition, informing us, often moving us, and, perhaps, if it is a great work, teaching us something important about life, how it was lived then and how we live now.  Through a selection of novels as well as a variety of other literary forms—poetry, plays, and autobiography—this seminar will examine a range of intellectual, political, and cultural issues that are fundamental to our understanding of the history of twentieth century Europe. 

Readings include:  1) John Boyer and Jan Goldstein, ed., Twentieth Century Europe; 2) Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth; 3) Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler; 4) Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises; 5) George Orwell, Animal Farm; 6) Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine; 7) Hendrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House; 8) Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, 9) Christopher Isherwood, Berlin Stories; 10) David Lodge, Nice Work; 11) Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch; 12) John Paul Sartre, No Exit.


1st-YEAR SEMINAR IN EUROPEAN HISTORY:  QUEENS & /MISTRESSES OF RENAISSANCE FRANCE
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 1322-001H
Wed 2PM-4:50—203 Virginia Snider Hall
Kathleen Wellman—78-DH—214-768-2970

This seminar will focus on officially designated royal mistresses and queens as a vehicle to explore the history of Renaissance France and the history of women.  It will treat the story of their lives and the myths constructed around them by looking at memoirs, paintings, chronicles, poetry, etc. to understand the process of historical writing.  It will also explore the ways these women have been used in French history since the Renaissance to explore the development of historiography.  This seminar will concentrate on these specific women to explore the broader culture of the French Renaissance.

Readings will include a reader along with the following: 1) R. Knecht, The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France; 2) Merry Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe; 3) Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth century Italy; 5) R. Knecht, Catherine de Medici; 6) Marguerite de Navarre, Memoirs. 


OUT OF MANY:  HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES TO 1877
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 2311-001
MWF 8AM-8:50—157 Dallas Hall
John Chávez—55-DH—214-768-2975

This course surveys the history of the United States from its roots in European colonialism, through the War for Independence, to the Civil War and Reconstruction.  The course stresses the continuing influence of colonialism in the domestic and foreign affairs of the United States even after its political independence.  By also emphasizing gender, race, class, and region, the course hopes to imbue students with an appreciation for the importance of perspective in the understanding of history.  Additionally, students are exposed to the various methods of doing historical research using primary and secondary sources.  Class sessions include lectures, discussions, and occasionally films.

Readings include: 1) John Mack Faragher et al., Out of Many: A History of the American People; 2) William Bruce Wheeler, and Susan D.Becker, Discovering the American Past:  A Look at the Evidence; 3) Kate L. Turabian, et al. A  Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.  7th ed.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2007. 


OUT OF MANY:  HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES TO 1877--CLASS CANCELLED
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 2311-002
TTh 9:30AM-10:50—115 Dallas Hall
Glenn Linden—64-DH—214-768-2980

This course will involve an examination of the major ideas in American History from the days of exploration to the Reconstruction years.  The focus will necessarily be political and economic developments, but there will be discussions of social and ideological changes as they relate to historical change. Students can choose to write a term paper or be involved in Community Service with a focus on immigration and urbanization.

Readings include: 1) John Murrin, et al., Liberty, Equality and Power, A History of the American People, Vol. I; 2) Elliot Gorn, Randy Roberts, Terry Bilhartz, Constructing the American Past, Vol. I; 3) William Graebner, True Stories from the American Past, Vol. I; 4) Glenn Linden, Voices from the Gathering Storm; 5) Glenn Linden and Tom Pressly, Voices from the House Divided. 


OUT OF MANY:  HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES TO 1877
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 2311-003
TTh 11AM-12:20—101 Dallas Hall
Edward Countryman—333-DH—214-768-2907

The course will deal with three great problems.  The first problem is the encounter of complete strangers between the first Viking voyages (about 1000 CE) and roughly 1700 CE. By the end of this period North America was heavily “colonized” in two senses.  One is that the effects of contact reached deep into the interior, far beyond the zones of European and African settlement.  The result was to force people who never expected to meet to learn to deal with one another, somehow, weaving them all into a web that spanned three continents (America, Europe, and Africa) and the Atlantic Ocean.  The second great theme will be how one group of “colonial Americans” took control of their own part of the world, and of many people unlike themselves, during the American Revolution.  The transition was enormous, and like colonization it reached both into the interior and across the ocean.  The transformation was enormous as well.  My third great theme will be the crisis that the successful American revolutionaries bestowed on themselves by not resolving (or being unable to resolve) the problem of slavery in the land of the free.  We will look at Africans struggling against the hated institution, at the Abolitionist movement that set out to destroy it, and at the way that many white southerners came to believe in it so strongly that they were willing to die to protect it.

Readings include: 1) Geoffrey Symcox and Blair Sullivan, Christopher Columbus and the Enterprise of the Indies; 2) Peter Mancall, ed., Envisioning America; 3) Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God; 4) James Merrell, ed., The Lancaster Treaty of 1744; 5) Thomas Paine, Common Sense, ed. Edward Larkin; 6) Sheila Skemp, Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist; 7) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; 8) Paul Finkelman, ed, Defending Slavery; 9) Jacqueline Jones, et al, Created EqualWe’ll also use on-line and visual sources heavily.


OUT OF MANY:  HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES TO 1877
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 2311-004H
TTh 2PM-3:20—303 Virginia Snider Hall
David Doyle—109D Clements—214-768-2813

This course examines the principal aspects of the history of the United States from the first colonial settlements through the Civil War.  It further seeks to introduce students to the intellectual skills and attitudes involved in trying to understand the past on its own terms and to apply that understanding to a consideration of the present.  Moreover, in the tradition of the liberal arts, it seeks to develop and to promote an understanding of human beings and of the human situation in general.  Finally, students are provided the opportunity to develop and hone writing skills through a series of "hands on"` written assignments involving primary materials.  Topics covered include the collision of cultures, slavery, the evolution of “the American,” the imperial crisis and the Revolution, Republicanism, western expansion, the Mexican War, the sectional crisis, secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.

Readings include: 1) Eric Foner, Give me Liberty: An American History (we will read selections, Seagull Edition, 2005); 2) Steven Sarson, British America, 1500-1800 (2005); 3) Rhys Isaac, Landon Carter’s Uneasy Kingdom (2004); 4) Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, The Slaves, and the American Revolution (2006); 5) David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing (2004); 6) Edward Countryman, The American Revolution (revised edition, 2004); 7) Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776, Penguin paper edition); 8) Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835, Penguin classics paper edition); 9) Amy S. Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (2005); 10) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852, Penguin edition); 11) Buce Levine, Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War (1992); 12) Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996)

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OUT OF MANY:   HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES TO 1877
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement
[Restricted to Hilltop Scholars]

HIST 2311-005
Tue 12:30PM-1:50—102 Hyer Hall
Andrea Hamilton—214-768-2984
 

This course examines the principal aspects of the history of the United States from the first colonial settlements through the Civil War.  It further seeks to introduce students to the intellectual skills and attitudes involved in trying to understand the past on its own terms and to apply that understanding to a consideration of the present.  Moreover, in the tradition of the liberal arts, it seeks to develop and to promote an understanding of human beings and of the human situation in general.  Finally, students are provided the opportunity to develop and hone writing skills through a series of "hands on"` written assignments involving primary materials.  Topics covered include the collision of cultures, slavery, the evolution of “the American,” the imperial crisis and the Revolution, Republicanism, western expansion, the Mexican War, the sectional crisis, secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.

Readings TBA


 OUT OF MANY:  HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES TO 1877
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 2311-701
Mon 6PM-8:50—102 Dallas Hall
Clive Siegle—214-768-2984

This course examines the principal aspects of the history of the United States from the first colonial settlements through the Civil War.  It further seeks to introduce students to the intellectual skills and attitudes involved in trying to understand the past on its own terms and to apply that understanding to a consideration of the present.  Moreover, in the tradition of the liberal arts, it seeks to develop and to promote an understanding of human beings and of the human situation in general.  Finally, students are provided the opportunity to develop and hone writing skills through a series of "hands on"` written assignments involving primary materials.  Topics covered include the collision of cultures, slavery, the evolution of “the American,” the imperial crisis and the Revolution, Republicanism, western expansion, the Mexican War, the sectional crisis, secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.

Readings include: 1) Breen, Divine, Williams, eds., America, Past and Present, special Texas edition; 2) T. H. Breen, The Power of Words, Vol. I.


UNFINISHED NATION:  HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1877
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 2312-001
MWF 11AM-11:50—115 Dallas Hall
Benjamin Johnson—58B-DH—214-768-2709

This course examines the principal aspects of the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the present.  It further seeks to introduce students to the intellectual skills and attitudes involved in trying to understand the past on its own terms and to apply that understanding to a consideration of the present.  Moreover, in the tradition of the liberal arts, it seeks to develop and to promote an understanding of human beings and of the human condition in general.  Finally, students are provided the opportunity to develop and hone writing skills through a series of "hands on" written assignments involving primary materials.  Topics covered include the aftermath of Reconstruction, industrialization and immigration, overseas expansion, Populism and Progressivism, World War I, the twenties, the Great Depression and New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, civil rights, the women’s movement, the Vietnam War, and the contemporary era.

Readings include: 1) John Mack Faragher, et al., Out of Many: A History of the American People; 2)  Documents Reader, Out of Many; 3) Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements ; 4) Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation; 5) Américo Paredes, George Washington Gómez. 


HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement
and Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 2355-001
MWF 10AM-10:50—115 Dallas Hall
Melissa Dowling—51-DH—214-768-2976

An introduction to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Israel, Anatolia and Egypt.  This course will examine the cultures of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Hebrews, and the Egyptians from the origins of writing to their conquest by Alexander the Great.  We will examine their histories, literature, and archaeological remains.  Topics to be covered in the readings include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the law code of Hammurabi, Assyrian imperialism and warfare, the rise of the Egyptian empire, Egyptian  myths and poetry, Egyptian religion, afterlife and mummification, and Egyptian medicine.  In conjunction with the exhibit on Tutankhamun at the Dallas Museum of Art, we will read Howard Carter's account of the discovery of the tomb and attend lectures by leading international Egyptologists on recent archaeological discoveries.

Readings include: 1) Howard Carter, The Tomb of Tutankhamun; 2) A.G. McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs; 3) John Romer, The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited; 4) John Nunn, Ancient Egyptian Medicine; 5) John Darnell and Colleen Manassa, Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest during Egypt's Late 18th Dynasty ; 6) J. B. Pritchard, The Ancient Near East: A New Anthology of Texts and Pictures, vol. I and II; 7) N.K. Sanders, The Epic of Gilgamesh; 8) William Kelly Simpson, The Literature of Ancient Egypt; 9) William E. Dunstan, The Ancient Near East; 10) Marc Van De Mieroop, King Hammurabi.


 HISTORY OF ISLAMIC EMPIRES

HIST 2379-001
MW 3PM-4:20—131 Dedman Life Science Bldg.l
Sabri Ates—58C-DH—214-768-2968

This course provides students with an historical overview of the world of Islam from its beginning to the Firs World War. Hence we will begin with an exploration of the early period of the religion and the formation of the two main branches of Islam (Sunni-Shi‘i) and their orthodoxies. Additionally, the course aims to familiarize students with some important aspects of Islamic history and culture. Issues addressed include: pre-Islamic Arabia; rise of Islam in Arabian peninsula; the times of the prophet Muhammad; teachings and basic beliefs of Islam; religious practices and theology; Qur’an, Hadith, law and jurisprudence; role of women; relations with non-Muslims and the legal status of non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic Empires; and the main thinkers of Islamic World throughout the period under discussion. The course develops chronologically and aims also to familiarize the students with the history and cultures of major Muslim Empires including: Umayyad, Abbasid, Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires. Some of the sessions therefore would be more historical and chronological in nature while others would be rather thematic. Readings would include primary sources and students would be encouraged to compare and discuss them.  The course does not require previous knowledge and background in the field. Students are expected to read around 100-to-150 pages per week and should attend the classes ready to discuss the reading. Each student will pick a topic of his or her choice to focus on for the semester and would turn in a twelve to fifteen page paper. There would also be a mid-term and final exam, the purpose of which is to encourage students to review the topics they did not select as their own. 

Readings Include: 1) John L. Esposito, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, (Oxford 2002); 2) Ira Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies, (Cambridge, 2002); 3) Karen Armstrong, Islam: A Short History; 4) Mojan Moomen, An Introduction to Shi‘i Islam, (Yale 1985; 5) John L. Esposito, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam.  


LATIN AMERICA IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD
Co-listed with CFA 3318
Fulfills Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 2384-001C
TTh 8AM-9:20—156 Dallas Hall
Peter Bakewell—225-DH—214-768-2195

This introductory course, designed for students with no previous knowledge of Latin America, covers the years from the Spanish Conquest in the early 16th century to the beginning of Latin American nationhood in the nineteenth century.  Special attention is given to the meeting of Europeans and native Americans, changing institutions and ideas of empire, Indians under colonial rule in the core areas of Spanish America, structures of society as they formed and changed, some individual lives, regional variations, arts and music, and movements toward national independence. Participation in discussions of readings is expected.  Two short papers, a dozen or so quick quizzes on readings, and a final exam.

Readings include: 1)Cheryl Martin and Mark Wasserman, Latin America and its People, vol. 1; 2) N. David Cook and Alexandra P. Cook, Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance; 3) Kenneth Mills, William B. Taylor, and Sandra L. Graham, Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History.


 MODERN AFRICA
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement
and Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 2392-001
MWF 1PM-1:50—110 Hyer Hall
Joy Williams-Black--58A- DH

An introduction to the history of Africa since 1800, which focuses on a number of themes to enable a better understanding of the recent past of this vast continent.  Major topics include 19th century social, political and economic revolutions in Southern and West Africa, the incorporation of the continent into the capitalist world economy, class formation under colonial rule, the rise of nationalism , and the politics of liberation. 

Readings include: 1) Kevin Shillington, History of Africa; 2) Robert Collins, Documents from the African Past; 3) Thomas Mofolo, Chaka, The Zulu; 4) Ngugi wa Thiongo, A Grain of Wheat; 5) Mpho M'atsepo, Nthunya, Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an Africa Woman.


HUMAN RIGHTS: AMERICA’S DILEMMA
Co-listed with CF 3317
Fulfills Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 3301-701C
Tue 6:30PM-9:20—116 Dallas Hall
Rick Halperin—237DH—214-768-3284

The study of human rights requires a sense of history and moral courage, for no nation or society in human history has been totally innocent of human rights abuses.  This course will examine certain violations of human rights within their historical context, and will also focus on America’s human rights record, with regard to its own policies and its relationship to human rights violations in other countries.  Attention will also be given to the evolution of both civil and human rights as entities within global political thought and practice.  Students will be encouraged to rely on reasonable evidence and critical thinking when studying these historical controversies, rather than on biased accounts or emotional arguments.  From torture to terrorism and from slavery to genocide, students will discuss the current status of human rights in the world today.

Readings include: 1) Rebecca Cook, Human Rights for Women; 2) Dee Brown, Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee; 3) Duncan Forrest, Glimpse of Hell; 4) Henry Friedlander, Origins of Nazi Genocide; 5) David Chandler,  Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison; 6) Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America and Age of Genocide. 


FROM COLONY TO EMPIRE:  U. S. DIPLOMACY 1789-1941
Co-listed with Cultural Formations 3309-001H

HIST 3306-001C
MWF 10AM-10:50—106 Dallas Hall
Thomas Knock—59-DH—214-768-2972

This course begins with the diplomacy of the American Revolution and ends with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It will examine the expansionist tendencies of early American foreign policy, Indian removal, the Mexican War, and the relationship between continental expansion ("Manifest Destiny") and the crisis over slavery. The movement toward an overseas empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific, climaxing with the war against Spain over Cuba and the Philippines, constitute the next unit of study. The issues surrounding American involvement in the Great War (1914-18), followed by the rise of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in the 1930s, are the chief concerns of the final portion of the course.

Readings include: 1) Justis Doeneke, From Isolation to War; 2) Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson, Revolution, War and Peace; 3) Emily Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945; 4) Philip Weeks, Farewell, My Nation:  The American Indian and the United States, 1820-1890; 5) William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy; 6) Dennis Merrill (ed.), Major Problems in the History of American Foreign Relations (Vol. I). 


AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1607-1877
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement
and Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 3313-001
TTh 9:30AM-10:50—101 Dallas Hall

Kenneth Hamilton—315 Clements Hall—214-768-3598

This course is an introduction to the life experience of African Americans in English North America from their arrival in 1619 through the Civil War.  In addition, a brief survey of West African history and culture will be presented.  Special attention will be given to the development of the African American culture, the growth of slavery, southern and northern free blacks, and life of African Americans during the Civil War.

Readings include: 1) Blassingame, Slave Community; 2) Campbell, Empire for Slavery; 3) Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom; 4) Schwartz, Born In Bondage; 5) Phillips, Freedom Port; 6) Owens, This Species of Property; 7) Wright, African Americans in the Colonial Era. 


NATURAL DISASTERS IN U.S. HISTORY
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 3318-001H
MW 3PM-4:20—107 Hyer Hall
Benjamin Johnson—58B-DH—214-768-2709

This course explores so-called “natural” disasters in American history, including the vexed histories of New Orleans, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf Coast’s race and class formations. The premise of this course is that although “natural” disasters may be in part random acts of God or of a capricious nature beyond our prediction or control, they are also deeply human events, often caused or complicated by social practices. Disasters may be disruptions of normal life, but they are also intensifications of it. An informed examination of their role in modern history is a powerful way of understanding such issues as the rise of international markets, racialization, the growth of the modern bureaucratic state, capitalism and its relation to the nation-state, the racial geography of modern cities, and the creation of scientific knowledge about society and nature.

Readings include: 1) Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel; 2) Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana; 3) Ari Kelman, A River and Its City:  The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans; 4) Ted Steinberg, Acts of God; 5) Eric Klinenberg, Heat Wave:  A Social Autopsy of Death in Chicago; 6) John Barry, Rising Tide; 7) Jed Horne, Breach of Faith; 8) Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes From a Catastrophe. 


THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement
and Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 3321-001
TTh 9:30AM-1:50—157-Dallas Hall
David Weber—302-DH—214-768-3753

This course focuses on the interactions of Indians, Hispanics, and Anglos in the four border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.  The course begins in 1821, when the region became part of newly independent Mexico.  In that year, Mexican ranchos, pueblos, missions, and presidos, dotted the land but Apaches, Comanches, Navajos and other Indians dominated it.  Anglo-American merchants, trappers, and settlers began to penetrate the region in the 1820s.  Under their influence Texas broke away from Mexico in 1836.  A decade later, in 1846, the United States conquered the area from New Mexico to California.  After the U.S.-Mexican War, Anglo Americans faced an unusual combination of challenges in the Southwest, and the region’s Indians and Mexicans faced a new government.  We will consider the ways that the U.S. tried to incorporate Mexicans and Indians into American political, economic, and social life, and the ways that they responded.  We will also look at United States efforts to construct and maintain an 1800-mile boundary with Mexico and to make water more accessible in an arid land.  (Informal lectures open to regular discussion; two exams; one research paper.)

Readings include: articles and book chapters contained in a course packet, and selections from books such as Me and Mine.  The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa (1969).  Américo Paredes, “With His Pistol in His Hand”: A Border Ballad and Its Hero (1958), Howard R. Lamar, The Far Southwest, 1846-1912.  A Territorial History (2000), David J. Weber, The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico (1982).  


NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
Co-listed with CFB 3322-001
Fulfills Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 3322-001C
TTh 11AM-12:20—106 Dallas Hall
Sherry Smith—356B-DH—214-768-1312

For many years historians overlooked the roles Native Americans played in the history of North America, ignoring their 30,000+ year residency and the fact that for over three hundred years after Columbus reached the West Indies, interactions with Indians largely preoccupied Europeans.  In addition, since 1789 “Americans” and Indians have engaged in dynamic processes of interaction which continue to the present.  This course will examine the complexities of these interactions.  Specific topics we will examine include America before Columbus, European invasions of America, Indians in Revolutionary America and the New Nation, conflicts for control of the West, forced acculturation, and 20th century developments regarding treaty rights and self determination.  Course readings will emphasize Native American points of view, including Indian autobiographies and novels.

Readings include: 1) Colin Calloway, First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History; 2) David Weber, What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?; 3)Camilla Townsend, Pocahontas; 4) Francis LaFlesche, The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe; 5) Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony; 6) Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman.


 THE MEXICAN AMERICANS:  1848 TO THE PRESENT
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement
and Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 3324-001
MWF 9AM-9:50—157 Dallas Hall
John Chávez—55-DH—214-768-2975

Stressing the indigenous background of Mexican Americans in the Southwest, this course surveys their history from prehistoric times to the present.  Emphasis is placed on events since 1848 when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war between the United States and Mexico, created the Mexican-American minority.  The major theme of the course is the Chicano perception of the Southwest as a lost land and how that perception has affected the history of this ethnic group.

Readings include: 1) Zaragosa Vargas, Major Problems in Chicano History; 2) Arnoldo de León and Richard Griswold del Castillo, North to Aztlán, and 2-3 other books individually assigned. 


THE REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIENCE IN RUSSIA, 1900-1930
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement
and Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 3340-001
TTh 9:30AM-10:50—116 Dallas Hall
Daniel Orlovsky—352-DH—214-768-3746

This course will trace the effects of the breakdown of the old regime and the establishment of Soviet power on Russian society and culture.  It will examine the evolution of political and social institutions, ideologies, literature and the arts against the backdrop of the era's turbulent political history.  Its purpose is to impart a sense of the totality of the revolutionary experience in what was essentially a non-Western society.  Students should gain a sense of what a revolution is, what caused the upheavals in Russia, the nature of the society, the politics and culture that resulted from those upheavals and the implication of the experience for the Soviet Union today.  The course will be taught in a lecture-discussion format.

Readings include: 1) Anton Chekhov, Longer Stories from the Last Decade; 2) Orlando Figes, A Peoples Tragedy:  The Russian Revolution; 3) Gladkov, Cement 4) Mark Steinberg, The Fall of the Romanovs; 5) Mark Steinberg, Voices of Revolution, 1917. 


CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION

HIST 3347-001
TTh 2PM-3:20—157 Dallas Hall
Glenn Linden—64-DH—214-768-2980

This course will cover the period of American history from the 1840s through the 1870s. It will examine the South and slavery, the abolitionist movement, the 1850s and the Civil War and Reconstruction, through films, readings and class discussion. Students will write two essays, take two examinations, and do a term paper over a topic of interest to the student.

Readings include: 1) John Blassingame, The Slave Community; 2) Eric Foner, Reconstruction:  America's Unfinished Revolution ; 3) James McPherson, Ordeal by Fire; 4) Glenn Linden and Tom Pressly, Voices from the House Divided; 5) Glenn Linden, Voices From the Reconstruction Years; 6) a number of readings on reserve in the library.


CHANGING AMERICAN FAMILIES
Co-listed with CFA 3348-001H
Fulfills Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 3348-001
TTh 11AM-12:20—156 Dallas Hall
Crista DeLuzio—56-DH—214-768-3748

This course explores changing expectations for and experiences of American families from the colonial period to the present. We will focus on the multiplicity of forms family life has taken in the past, paying careful attention to differences among and within families of race, class, ethnicity, gender, and age. We will address a range of topics and issues associated with family life, including courtship, marriage, divorce, reproduction, child rearing, gender divisions of labor at home and between home and work, and the relationship between the “private” and the “public.” Our goal is to understand the ways in which family structures, dynamics, and ideals have shaped and been shaped by larger forces of economic, legal, social, and cultural change.

Readings include: : 1) Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women; 2) Helena Wall, Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America; 3) Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic; 4) Louisa May Alcott, Little Women; 5) Linda Gordon, Heroes of their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston, 1880-1960; 6) Elaine Tyler May, Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America; 7) Jessica Weiss, To Have and to Hold: Marriage, The Baby Boom, and Social Change; 8) Barbara Melosh, Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption; 9) Arlie Hocschild, The Time Bind: When Work becomes Home and Home becomes Work


 LIFE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD, 306-1095
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement

HIST 3350-001
TTh 11AM-12:20—152 Fondren Science
Jeremy Adams—67-DH—214-768-2969

This course is the first half of a two-semester survey of the political, social, and intellectual history of Europe from the gradual fall of the Roman Empire, through the reconstitution of a new order of Christian society, to the general cataclysm of the Black Death.  The first semester moves from the dissolving order of late Roman culture to the institution of feudalism, discussing both central and peripheral experiences.  [The second semester (1095-1350) will begin with the Crusades and then deal more topically with the politics, class structure, and intellectual life of the High Middle Ages.]

Readings include: 1) A. H. M. Jones, Constantine and the Conversion of Europe; 2) The Benedictine Rule; 3) Gregory the Great, Life of Saint Benedict; 4) Heinrich Fichtenau, The Carolingian Empire; 5) Einhard and Notker the Stammerer, Two Lives of Charlemagne; 6) Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge, Alfred the Great; 7) Snorri Sturlasson, King Harald’s Saga; 8) Carl Stephenson, Medieval Feudalism; 9) Brian Tierney and Sidney Painter, Western Europe In the Middle Ages, 300-1475.


CLASS AND GENDER IN ANCIENT SOCIETY
Co-listed with CF 3325
Fulfills Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 3355-001C
MWF 1PM-1:50—116 Dallas Hall
Melissa Dowling—51-DH—214-768-2976

An examination of the class and gender structures of the ancient world with special emphases on changing definitions of masculinity and femininity in Greek and Roman culture and the position, rights, and interaction of different groups (e.g., free and slave, citizen and foreigner, soldier and civilian, etc.).  Course readings will be drawn from different areas of ancient life:  epic and lyric poetry, ancient novels, historical evidence such as inscriptions, laws, court cases, and archaeological artifacts.

Readings include:  Homer’s Odyssey; plays of Sophocles and Aristophanes; Plato's Symposium; Heliodorus' romance novel about Egypt and Ethiopia; Petronius' satirical novel about Roman debauchery, the Satyricon; Apuleius’ adventure novel about witchcraft and Isis, The Golden Ass; Plautus’ plays about wise slaves and foolish aristocrats; Ovid's widely emulated poem about the loves of gods and mortals, the Metamophoses; and modern analyses of Greek and Roman sexuality, gender identities, race and slavery. 


THE HOLOCAUST
Co-listed with CF 3306
Fulfills Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 3363-001C
MWF 9AM-9:50—357 Dallas Hall
Donald Niewyk—63-DH—214-768-2971

Examines the destruction of the European Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped as it emerged from pre-World War I prejudice and Nazi racism. Considers victim responses to persecution, the behavior of perpetrators and bystanders, and possibilities of rescue. 

Readings include: 1) Bergen, War and Genocide; 2) Niewyk, The Holocaust.


CONSUMER CULTURE IN THE U.S., 1700-1990

HIST 3364-001
TTh 9:30AM-10:50—357 Dallas Hall
Alexis McCrossen—60-DH—214-768-3676

This course introduces students to the history of the consumer culture in the United States. It examines the transition from an economy of scarcity to an economy of abundance, looking closely at the rise of institutions central to consumption, such as the factory, the department store, and advertising. One of the course's central concerns is the moral, ethical, and ideological implications of the transformation of Americans into consumers. The class will be divided between lecture and discussion; graded work includes mid-term and final examinations, as well as a research paper.  Readings include: 1) T. H. Breen, Marketplace of Revolution; 2) Susan Strasser Satisfaction Guaranteed;3) Lizabeth Cohen A Consumers' Republic.


PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY:  EUROPE IN THE AGE OF NAPOLEON

HIST 3366-001
TTh 8AM-9:20—102 Dallas Hall
John Mears—58D-DH—214-768-2974

What explains Napoleon’s rise to power in France.  Why did the French Revolution end in a military despotism?  In what ways did Napoleon’s military campaigns mark the advent of modern war?  Was Napoleon a defender or destroyer of the French Revolution?  What were the consequences of his career beyond the frontiers of France?  What explains the disintegration of the Napoleonic imperium after 1812?  What was the essence of the Napoleonic legacy?  This course will address a variety of questions that will enable students to understand the impact of Napoleon on France, Europe, and the wider world.

Readings include: 1) Owen Connelly, The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era; 2) Rory Muir, Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon; 3) Robert M. Epstein, Napoleon’s Last victory and the Emergence of Modern War; 4) Martyn Lyons, Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution; and 5) Harold Nicolson, The Congress of Vienna. 


SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF EUROPE
Co-listed with CF 3314-001H

HIST 3376-001C
MWF 1PM-1:50—157 Dallas Hall
James Hopkins—65-DH—214-768-2977

This course will be devoted to an examination of the role of the “public” intellectual in modern European history.  It will explore major intellectual and social issues raised by and affecting a number of figures who were instrumental in shaping the European world of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  In a fundamental sense, however, the themes developed will be outside time and place.  Consequently, they should be of particular importance to those concerned with the relationship of their values and ideas to the society in which we live today.

Readings include: 1) Roland Stromberg, European Intellectual History since 1789 (6th ed.); 2)  Edmund Gosse, Father and Son; 3) Heda Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star; 4) J. D. Watson, The Double Helix; 5); Christabel Bielenberg, When I Was a German: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany; 6) Jean Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays ; 7) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own; 8) Emile Zola, Germinal; 9) Robert Graves, Goodby to All That; 10) Jules R. Benjamin, A Student’s Guide to History; 11) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto; 12) George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia; 13) Albert Camus, The Stranger; 14) Richard Crossman, The God That Failed; 15) James K. Hopkins, The Private and Public Intellectual in the World and the Academy. 


PROBLEMS IN AFRICAN HISTORY:  COLONIALISM

HIST 3378-001
MWF 10AM-10:50—157 Dallas Hall
Joy Williams-Black--58A- DH

Examines the topic of colonialism in the history of Africa. 

Readings include:  1) Adu Boahen, General History of Africa, Vol. Vii, Africa Under Colonial domination, 1880-1935 (abridged edition); 2) Robert Collins, Historical Problems of Imperial Africa; 3) Bruce Fetter, Colonial Rule in Africa; 4) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart; 5) Ngugi wa Thiongo, The River Between.


HISTORY OF MEXICO

HIST 3382-701
Tue 6:30PM-9:20—101-Dallas Hall
Peter Bakewell—225-DH—214-768-2195

The course covers the history of Mexico from pre-Columbian times until the late twentieth century.  Its main purpose is to trace various continuities in Mexican affairs-social, political, economic, and cultural-over the long term.  The course will be a mixture of lecture, discussion, and small-group tutorials.  Students should be prepared to take part fully in discussions in class and in tutorials. Preparation for tutorials will also require considerable reading and writing.

Readings may include: 1) Miller, Mexico: A History; 2) Coe and Koontz, Mexico. From the Olmecs to the Aztecs; 3) Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain; 4) Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests; 5) Wasserman, Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico; 6) Castellanos, The Book of Lamentations; 7) Krauze, Biography of Power: Modern Mexico, 1810-1996.


 THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN URBAN EXPERIENCE

HIST 3388-001
TTh 2PM-3:20—357 Dallas Hall
Kenneth Hamilton—315-CL—214-768-3598

A history of blacks in American cities during the post-Civil War era, this course investigates the forces that inspired blacks to relocate to urban areas and surveys the dynamic lifestyles created within evolving black urban communities, the long periods of major African-American rural-to-city migration, institution building, black politics, African-American economics, race relations, and social life.

Readings include:  1)Kimberley L. Phillips, Alabama North; 2) Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963; 3) Roger Lane, Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia 1860-1900.  


MODERN MIDDLE EAST
Fulfills Perspectives-History requirement,
and Human Diversity co-curricular requirement

HIST 3390-001
MWF 11AM-11:50—158 Fondren Science
Sabri Ates—58C-DH—214-768-2968

This course seeks to provide a broad introduction to history and politics of the modern Middle East. We begin by examining the cultural, ethnic and religious diversity in the region and questioning the very usefulness of the term “Middle East” for a region that stretches from North Africa to Central Asia. After offering a brief historical perspective on the early period of Islam and exploring facets of the Safavid and Ottoman past (the 16th-18th centuries), the course concentrates on the nineteenth century and twentieth centuries. Topics in the modern period include: WWI and the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire; the founding of the post-Ottoman state system (Turkey and the Arab states, and Israel-Palestine); the predicament of the Kurdish people; the struggle over Palestine; Iran from semi-colonial past to Islamic Revolution; in addition to discussions concerning the Lebanese civil war and rise of Arab nationalism; Ba’athist Syria and Iraq, and Iraq from the rise of Ba’thist tyranny to the American invasion. Throughout we will attempt to highlight important social and economic dimensions of problems of change and development, such as the changing status of women and the role of Islam in the Middle East.

Required books will include: 1) William Cleveland, A History of the Modern Middle East; 2) James Gelvin, Modern Middle East; 3) Stephen Kinzer, Crescent and Star; 4) Hiner Saleem, My Fathers Rifle, 5) Sinaan Antoon, Ijaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody.

All readings not included in the required books are available on Blackboard. 


PROBLEMS IN ASIAN HISTORY:  MODERN JAPAN

HIST 3395-001
MWF 11AM-11:50—156Dallas Hall
Ling Shiao—58E-DH—214-768-3683

This course traces the history of Japan from the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) through the Meiji Restoration of 1868, and into the contemporary world of the Shôwa (1926-1989) and Heisei (1989- ) eras.  For early modern Japan, the focus is on the rise and establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the economic, social, and political nature of the Tokugawa regime, and the breakdown of this "Tokugawa synthesis" under external pressures.  We will then turn our attention to the development of a new Japanese national ethic that culminated in the Meiji restoration, and the redefinition of Japanese society in the Meiji and Taisho periods. We will go on to examine the rise of Japan as an Asian and global power, the definition and manifestation of a new aggressive nationalism, both domestically and internationally, the growth of "fascist" politics in Japan, the China War and Great Pacific War, and the reformulation of Japan during the American occupation.  We will end the course with a look at the economic miracle of late-Showa Japan, and the political and economic crisis of the Heisei period in the context of the rising economic power of China and other Asian neighbors.  Readings and writing exercises will draw from a textbook, primary sources, secondary sources, and films.

Readings include: 1) Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (2003); 2) Chie Nakane and Shinzaburo Oshie, eds., Tokugawa Japan (1992); 3) Gail Lee Bernstein, Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945 (1991); 4) Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa; 5) Tokuda Shusei.  Rough Living; 6) T. Fujitani, Splendid Monarchy:  Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (1996); 7) Junichiro Tanizaki.  Naomi; 8) Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook, eds, Japan at War: An Oral History (1995); 9) Carol Gluck and Stephen R. Graubard, eds. Showa:  The Japan of Hirohito (1992); and 10) Course Reader. 


PROBLEMS IN ASIAN HISTORY:   TRADITIONAL CHINA 

HIST 3395-002
MW 3PM-4:20—115 Dallas Hall
Ling Shiao—58E-DH—214-768-3683

This course provides a general introduction to the historical development of China from the classical period (~2000 BCE) to the late imperial times (~1600). Our primary focus will be the aspects of Chinese history that contributed to the continuous construction of the Chinese cultural identity.  These aspects include the family system, the Confucian ideals and practices, the Chinese worldview, the imperial bureaucracy and civil service examination system, the development of Buddhism, and the literary, economic, and technological achievements of the past.  Each of these theses will be addressed in lectures as well as pursued intensively in class discussions, which are an important and mandatory part of the course.  We will also unravel certain myths about China that persist in the West, including the myths of a homogenous and unchanging traditional China.  At the end of the semester, you will acquire a familiarity with the development of Chinese culture, politics and society as well as some understanding of history and historical interpretations.  Readings and writing exercises will draw from a textbook, primary sources, secondary sources, and documentary and feature films.

Readings include: 1) Patricia B. Ebrey,  Cambridge Illustrated History of China (1996); 2) Patricia B. Ebrey. Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook. 2nd edition (1993); 3) H. Norman Rothschidl, Wu Zhao: The Only Woman Emperor in China (2008); 4) Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (an 18th century detective novel edited and translated by Robert Hans Van Gulik); 5) Wu, Ch'eng-En.  Monkey: Folk Novel of China (a 16th century story translated by translated by Arthur Waley); 6) Jacques Gernet, Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276 (1962); 7) Timothy Brook. Confusions of Pleasure:  Commerce and Culture in Ming China (1999); 8) Ray Huang, 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (1982); 9) Zhang Yimo, “Hero” (a 2002 feature film); 10) Course reader


HIST 4300:  JUNIOR SEMINAR IN RESEARCH AND WRITING
[Restricted to History Majors]

The Junior Seminar consists of readings and instruction in research methods and writing within the context of a general topic chosen by the instructor.  A relatively small core of common required readings is assigned during the first part of the semester, along with closely supervised writing exercises based on those readings.  A major paper, usually 20 to 25 pages in length, is the chief task in the second half of the semester.

NOTE: Majors are required to take the Junior Seminar during their junior year--not before or after that time. Any exception to this rule must be cleared by the Department Chairperson or the Undergraduate Director.


 
JUNIOR SEMINAR:  THE DOMESTIC ROOTS OF FOREIGN POLICY

HIST 4300-001
Mon 2PM-4:50—137-DH
Thomas Knock—59-DH—214-768-2972

In this seminar students will study historiography (the history of history, so to speak), or how the prevailing historical interpretation and meaning of a particular event can change, often dramatically, with the passage of time and new documentation.  More specifically, students will investigate the role of domestic politics in the making of foreign policy--that is, how, from one perspective, domestic political circumstances place constraints upon foreign policy elites; and how, from another perspective, those elites often use external events to gain political advantage at home.  To illustrate the general concept, in the first few weeks of the semester, the seminar will examine the Monroe Doctrine, the causes of the First World War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. For their major paper students may concentrate on almost any subject in American or European diplomatic history in the nineteenth or twentieth century.

Readings include: 1) E. H. Carr, What Is History?; 2) Jules Benjamin, A Student’s Guide to History; 3) Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days; 4) a course reader.


JUNIOR SEMINAR:   WORLD OF GOODS, CONSUMER CULTURES OF THE WORLD 1700-1990

HIST 4300-002
Tue 2PM-4:50—132 Dedman Life Science Bldg.
Alexis McCrossen—60-DH—214-768-3676

Students in this research seminar will research a topic in the history of consumer culture.  The course requires primary research culminating in a twenty-page research paper.  Students may choose a range of geographic areas and topics for their research papers.  Common reading will include works that address the development of commodity chains, the process of industrialization, the ebb and flow of world trade, and the emergence of institutions of abundance, such as advertising and department stores.


 DEPARTMENTAL DISTINCTION
[Restricted to History Majors]

HIST 4375-P##
(
History Dept. Chair's signature is required on student’s enrollment request form.   Take form to Dept. Admin. Assistant, who will be set up course in Access. )

History majors with a sufficiently high academic standing may graduate with honors in history by applying for the degree “with departmental distinction.”  Eligible students—those who have completed 21 hours of History credit, including the junior seminar, with a 3.7 History GPA and overall 3.5 GPA—will  be  invited  by the Department Chair to apply.  Candidates for distinction will pursue an individual research project under the direction of a particular professor (while enrolled in HIST 4375).  Such a major research project might well develop out of the 5000 level seminar or HIST 4300, the junior seminar.  The research project will be presented as a thesis before the end of the semester.  The successful honors graduate must pass an oral examination on the thesis.


 THE HISTORY OF SPAIN TO 1492

HIST 4380-001
TTh 2PM-3:20—116 Dallas Hall
Jeremy Adams—67-DH—214-768-2969

This course emphasizes the main social, political, and cultural topics of the history of the Iberian Peninsula before Ferdinand and Isabella, focusing on the Roman and Medieval periods.

Readings include: 1) Joseph F. O'Callaghan, A History of Medieval Spain; 2) The Poem of My Cid; 3) Livy, The War with Hannibal; 4) Jerrilynn Dodds et al., eds., Convivencia; 5) Isidore of Seville, selected works; 6) J. duQ. Adams, 'Toledo's Visigothic Metamorphosis."


 INTERNSHIP IN HISTORY
(Instructor's signature is required on student’s enrollment request form.  Take form to History Dept. Admin. Assistant, who will set up course in Access.)

HIST 4397-P##

An opportunity for students to apply historical skills in a public setting working with a supervisor of the student's work and a professor assessing the academic component of the project.  Prerequisites:  Junior or senior standing and at least 2.5 overall GPA.


INDEPENDENT STUDY
(Instructor's signature is required on student’s enrollment request form.  Take form to History Dept. Admin. Assistant, who will set up course in Access.)

HIST 4398/ /4399-P##
By Arrangement with Instructor

History majors in the second semester of their junior year may apply to the Chair of the History Department or to the Undergraduate Director to pursue a personally designed course of study under the guidance of an appropriate professor during the junior or senior year. 


SEMINAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY:  WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THE U.S.

HIST 5340-001
Tue 2PM-4:50—120 Dallas Hall
Crista DeLuzio—56-DH—214-768-3748

This course explores the history of women’s rights in the United States. We will study the ideas and political activities of feminists who have sought to achieve greater freedom, equality, opportunity, and power for women in public and private life. We will address the whole range of rights women have fought for, including the struggles for political and civil rights, economic independence, and reproductive freedom. The course begins with an examination of women’s roles and status in the colonial period. We then move on to the first debates about women’s rights during the Revolutionary Era. Next, we turn to the emergence of an organized women’s rights movement in the early nineteenth century and to each of the successive “waves” of feminism that developed from that period to our own time. As we move along, we will examine the effects of feminism on the everyday lives of women and men in the U.S., as well as the responses (both enthusiastic and oppositional) to feminist ideas and politics by the wider culture. We will also consider the struggle for women’s rights in relation to movements for racial equality and economic justice in the U.S. and for women’s emancipation around the world. Much of our reading will consist of primary source literature – documents produced by women’s rights activists and feminists themselves. These will be supplemented with works by historians who will help us to understand feminists’ ideas and actions in relation to larger currents of social and cultural change.

Readings may include: 1)Eve LaPlante: American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson (2004); 2) Sheila L. Skemp, Judith Sargent Murray: A Brief History with Documents (1998); 3) Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845); 4) Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841); 5) Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Candida Smith, eds. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays (2007); 6) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland; 7) Betty Friedan, The Feminist Mystique (1963); 8) Marilyn French, The Women’s Room (1977); 9) Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995); 10) Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open:  How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (2000); 11) Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, eds., Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation Movement (2000); 12) Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (2000); 13) Katha Pollitt, Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics and Culture (2001).


 SEMINAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY:  THE AMERICAN WEST
Co-listed with HIST 6308-001C
(Prereq: Junior standing or instructor approval)

HIST 5341-001C
Thu 2PM-4:50—138 Dallas Hall
Sherry Smith—356B-DH—214-768-1312

This course will introduce students to scholarship on the American West.  The “West” is not an easily identifiable place and the study of it has changed considerably, especially over the last decade.  We will begin by reading theories of western history.  Other course readings will follow a topic and chronological framework.  Among the topics we will explore are: the West as multicultural region with special emphasis on Native Americans, Asian Americans and Mexican Americans; the role of the federal government in the economic development of the region; conservation; the impact of the Depression, Dust Bowl and World War II; and urbanization.

Readings include: 1) Richard Etulain, ed., Does the Frontier Experience Make American Exceptional?; 2) Nea Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land; 3) Susan Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush; 4) Elliott West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado; 5) Robert Righter, The Battle over Hetch Hetchy; 6) Benjamin Johnson, Revolution in Texas; 7) Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation; 8) Erika Lee, At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration; 9) James Gregory, American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California; 10) Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature; 11) Robert Self, American Babylon; 12) Sherry L. Smith, The Future of the Southern Plains, and other books and essays to be assigned. 


SEMINAR IN EUROPEAN HISTORY:  EUROPE BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS
(Prereq: Jr. standing or instructor approval)

HIST 5392-001
Mon 2PM-4:50—120 Dallas Hall
Donald Niewyk—63-DH—214-768-2971

Explores the impact of World War I, the challenges of Communism and Fascism to liberal democracy, and the roots of the Second World War.  A discussion of general issues will be followed by guided research and the exchange of findings. 

Readings to be announced. 


GRADUATE  COURSES


HISTORIOGRAPHY

HIST 6300-001
Tue 2PM-4:50—70 Dallas Hall
Daniel Orlovsky—352-DH—214-768-3746

This course is designed to familiarize graduate students with themes of contemporary historical writing, the tools of historical research, and the discipline's methodology. Weekly sessions are organized around such themes as revolution, gender, war, popular culture, nationalism, memory. It is required for all entering graduate students. 

Readings include: 1) Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism; 2) Alon Confino, Germany as a Culture of Remembrance, 3) Joan Scott, Gender and the Politics of History; 4) Victoria De Grazia, The Sex of Things, 5) M. Foucault, History of Sexuality, Vol. 1; 6) M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish; 7) Sarah Maza, The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie; 8) Hew Strachan, The First World War; 9) Jill LePore, The Name of War: King Phillip's War and the Origins of American Identity; 10) Arnold Offner, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953; 11) Carlo Ginzburg, Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller; 12) M. MacMillan, Paris 1919; 13) Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization; 14) Alun Munslow, Deconstructing History; 15) V. Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness, 1933-1941; 16) Mary Louise Roberts, Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-27; 17) J. Appleby, L. Hunt, M. Jacob, Telling the Truth about History; 18) Karl Marx and F. Engels, selected writings.


COLLOQUIUM IN EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY

HIST 6301-001
Mon 2PM-4:50—106 Dallas Hall
Edward Countryman—333-DH—214-768-2907

This colloquium seeks to give graduate students a sophisticated historiographical understanding of the major problems in American history between the arrival of Europeans and Africans in the Western Hemisphere and the consolidation of the early American republic.  The course will require heavy reading of a “spine” of major monographs and primary texts and considerable additional reading on one of the assigned topics, at the student’s choice.  Throughout the course, students will be made aware of other significant scholarship in addition to the assigned reading on the topic under discussion.

Readings Include: 1) Alan Taylor, Colonial America; 2) Nancy Shoemaker, Strange Likeness; 3) Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness; 4) Bernard Bailyn, The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century; 5) Robin Blackburn, the Making of New World Slavery; 6) Cornelia Dayton, Women Before the Bar; 7) Brendan McConville, The King’s Three Bodies; 8) Gregory Dowd; War Under Heave; 9) Daniel Richter, Facing East from Indian Country; 10) Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution; 11) Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution; 12) Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution; 13) David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing; 14) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun.

This course also will have primary source readings every week, normally on-line.  Each student will “track” the narrative in a standard college-level text book. 


SEMINAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY:  THE AMERICAN WEST
Co-listed with HIST 5341-001C
(Prereq: Junior standing or instructor approval)

HIST 6308-001C
Thu 2PM-4:50—138 Dallas Hall
Sherry Smith—356B-DH—214-768-1312

This course will introduce students to scholarship on the American West.  The “West” is not an easily identifiable place and the study of it has changed considerably, especially over the last decade.  We will begin by reading theories of western history.  Other course readings will follow a topic and chronological framework.  Among the topics we will explore are: the West as multicultural region with special emphasis on Native Americans, Asian Americans and Mexican Americans; the role of the federal government in the economic development of the region; conservation; the impact of the Depression, Dust Bowl and World War II; and urbanization.

Readings include: 1) Richard Etulain, ed., Does the Frontier Experience Make American Exceptional?; 2) Nea Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land; 3) Susan Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush; 4) Elliott West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado; 5) Robert Righter, The Battle over Hetch Hetchy; 6) Benjamin Johnson, Revolution in Texas; 7) Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation; 8) Erika Lee, At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration; 9) James Gregory, American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California; 10) Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature; 11) Robert Self, American Babylon; 12) Sherry L. Smith, The Future of the Southern Plains, and other books and essays to be assigned. 


GLOBAL AND COMPARATIVE HISTORY:  METHODS AND THEORIES
(Prereq: Graduate standing and reading
knowledge of one foreign language)

HIST 6315-001
Wed 2PM-4:50—138 Dallas Hall
John Mears—58D-DH—214-768-2974

As the core colloquium for the graduate field on global and comparative history, this course will place the American experience into larger contexts by introducing students to the theoretical and conceptual frameworks that have guided advanced research in recent decades.  Common readings will include representative works from the Annales school, world-systems and dependency analysis, cross-cultural approaches, ecological history, post-colonial, and comparative methods.

Readings include: 1)Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism; 2) Philip Curtin, Cross Cultural Trade in World History; 3) Theda Skocpol, State and Social Revolution; 4)K.N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean; 5) Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems; 6) T. Douglas Price and A. Birgitte, Last Hunters First Farmers; 7) Lynda Norene Shaffer, Native Americans Before 1492; 8) J.R. McNeill and William H. McNeill, The Human Web; and 9) Ross E. Dunn, The New World History. 


 THE COURSES LISTED BELOW REQUIRE DEPARTMENT APPROVAL
(
Graduate Director's signature is required on student’s enrollment request form.  Take form to History Dept. Admin. Assistant, who will set up course in Access.)

HIST 6049-001                     Graduate FT Status--M.A. (Class #2869)

HIST 6308-P##                    Seminar in American History

HIST 6322/6323-P##          Readings in History

HIST 6324-P##                    Readings in History (Prereq:  12 credit hrs)

HIST 6331-P##                    Problems in U.S. Foreign Relations

HIST 6335-P##                    American Social & Cultural History to 1877

HIST 6336-P##                    American Social & Cultural History since 1877

HIST 6337-P##                    Problems in U.S. Political History

HIST 6341-P##                    History of European Ideas

HIST 6343-P##                    Problems in Modern German History

HIST 6345-P##                    Problems in Early Modern Europe

HIST 6347-P##                    Problems in Recent Modern Europe

HIST 6349-P##                    Problems in Medieval History

HIST 6350-P##                    Problems in Medieval History

HIST 6352-P##                    Problems in Medieval Spanish History

HIST 6353-P##                    Problems in Spain-Portugal

HIST 6355-P##                    Problems in Latin American History

HIST 6357-P##                    Problems in Mexican History

HIST 6363-P##                    American Civil War & Reconstruction

HIST 6383-P##                    Tudor-Stuart Britain

HIST 6385-P##                    Problems in British History

HIST 6398/6399-P##          Thesis M.A.

HIST 7000-p##                     Teacher Preparation

HIST 7398-P##                    Research

HIST 8049-001                     Graduate Full Time Status--Ph.D. (Class #3149)

HIST 8398-P##                    Dissertation PhD