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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 Equal. We’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
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