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course description

This course is intended to turn students from consumers of history into producers of it.

Theory - Trends in historical writing from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, emphasizing the running debate between the two ancient faces of history represented by Herdotus (cultural) and Thucydides (political).

Practice - In addition to several written warm-up exercises, students will produce two papers:
   1) an analysis of a document assigned from the archive of the Norfolk Public Library (15pp.);
   2) a Master's Thesis proposal (10pp. + bibliography)

Books
1. Herodotus, Histories (Penguin)
2. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War (Penguin)
3. Donald R. Kelley, Faces of History (Yale)
4. Donald R. Kelley, Fortunes of History (Yale)
5. Donald R. Kelley, Frontiers of History (Yale)
6 . E. P. Thompson, Making of the English Working Class (Vintage)
7 . Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms (Hopkins)
8 . Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe (Princeton)
9 . Turabian, Manual for Writers etc. (Chicago), recommended or
      Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (Chicago), recommended

Requirements