HISTORY 734 A & B
Uncovering American History
Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 for HISTORY 734.
Description
Explores the arguments, assumptions and points of view that have created and continue to create historical knowledge of the United States. The course engages with the practice of United States history and historiography, emphasising historians’ ways of doing, thinking, valuing and writing about the past.
To complete this course students must enrol in HISTORY 734 A and B.
Availability 2019
Not taught in 2019
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Paul Taillon
Reading/Texts
Carl Degler, Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America, New York, 1959 (or 1970 rev. ed.).
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present, 3rd ed., London, 2003.
Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom, New York, 1998.
Recommended Reading
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History, New York, 1994.
Ellen Fitzpatrick, History’s Memory: Writing America’s Past, 1880-1980, Cambridge, Mass., 2002.
Points
HISTORY 734A: 15 points
HISTORY 734B: 15 points