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May 17, 2024
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HIST 603 - 20th-Century U.S. Historiography3 credits
This is a seminar on 20th-century American historiography. The course will expose the students to numerous historical approaches over a variety of subjects and time periods, as opposed to providing a comprehensive history of the modern United States. The goal is not to master a particular topic, period or event in the past. Rather, it is to understand the kinds of questions historians ask and the various methodologies they use to study that past. With that goal in mind, we will focus on those historical works that have been critical to our collective understanding and that have driven the historiographical conversation between and among historians. Thus, we will read texts both “old” and “new,” as we come to understand how historians have researched, thought about, discussed and even debated the most salient issues across the last century of American history. Students will complete a final historiographical paper. This course, in conjunction with one other U.S. historiography course, constitutes the major preparation for the capstone essays in U.S. history.
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