The Historians' Craft

 1/24         INTRODUCTION AND WHY STUDY HISTORY         

                                Thelen, “History after the Enola Gay Controversy: An Introduction” (Blackboard)

                                Sherwin, “Hiroshima as Politics and History” (Blackboard)

                                Enola Gay—Documents (Blackboard)

                              Furay and Salevouris, Ch. 1-2

  Galgano, Ch. 1

2/7           WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE COLD WAR?

                              Gaddis, We Now Know (Ch. 1, 10) (Blackboard) Gaddis, Ch. 1 Questions

                              Leffler, "The Cold War: What Do “We Now Know”? (Blackboard)

Hopkins, "Continuing Debate and New Approaches in Cold War History" (Blackboard)

Rosenberg, "Rethinking Themes for Teaching the Era of the Cold War"(Blackboard)

 2/14         HISTORICAL THINKING AND WRITING  

                              Furay and Salevouris, Ch. 3-5, 11

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2/21         THE COLD WAR FAMILY

                                Meyerowitz, “Sex, Gender, and the Cold War Language of Reform” (Blackboard)

Book-Article Analysis Paper Due

                               Furay and Salevouris, Ch. 9, 12

                                Galgano, Ch. 5-6

                             Crafting Historical Prose  

Structuring Your Essay

The Three Parts of a History Essay

The Argument

Ten Commandments of Good Writing

Chicago Style of Citations

3/7         THE HISTORIAN'S HOME: LIBRARY VISIT  

3/14         COLD WAR CULTURE

                            Wright, "Reds, Romance, and Renegades" (Blackboard)

Doherty, "Hollywood Agit-Prop: The Anti-Communist Cycle, 1948-1954 (Blackboard )

                             Ceplair,, "Film Industry's Battle against Left-Wing Influences" (Blackboard)

Hendershot, "The Atomic Scientist, Science Fiction Films, and Paranoia" (Blackboard)                

3/21        HISTORICAL DETECTION: PART I

  After the Fact, Prologue, Ch. 8-9

 Furay and Salevouris, Ch. 10

Galgano, Ch. 4

3/28                SPRING BREAK

4/4           HISTORICAL DETECTION: PART II

                                After the Fact, , Ch. 10-13

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4/11         WHAT IS HISTORY? PART II

Furay and Salevouris, Ch. 6-7

Galgano, Ch. 3

Book Review Paper Due

4/18        COLD WAR AND RACE RELATIONS

Dudziak, "Brown as a Cold War case" (Blackboard)

Borstelmann, "Jim Crow's Coming Out" (Blackboard)

Woods, "The Cold War and the Struggle for Civil Rights" (Blackboard)

Romano, "Moving Beyond "The Movement that Changed the World" (Blackboard)

4/25        HISTORICAL DETECTION III

After the Fact, , Ch. 14-17

                           Rossinow and Lowen, “The End of the Cold War" (Blackboard)

5/2       HISTORIOGRAPHY

                            Furay and Salevouris, Ch. 13-14

Fisher, "Nation Building and the Vietnam War: A Historiography (Blackboard)

MacDonald, "Waiting for Uncle Sam" (Blackboard)

Selverstone, "A Literature So Immense" (Blackboard)

5/9        FILM, TV, AND HISTORY

Furay and Salevouris, Ch. 8

Sarantakes, "Cold War Pop Culture and the Image of U.S. Foreign Policy (Blackboard)

Ozersky, "The Demographic Imperative" (Blackboard)

Toplin and Eudy, "The Historian Encounters Film: A Historiography" (Blackboard)

 

FINAL EXAM: Monday, May 16^th  4-6

*Schedule is subject to change*