J425, History Capstone Seminar, Spring 2022

Discussion:

• Learning in a time of crises:  pandemic, climate change, inequality, anti-democracy....

• What Is a University and Why Are You Enrolled in One?
• What Is a Public University and Why Are You Enrolled in One?
• What Is a Research University and Why Are You Enrolled in One?
• Why Study the Humanities?
• Why Study History?

Video:

Rockman, Seth.  “What Is Historical Reasoning?”  Brown University, August 2014.  [up to 2:32]

Reading:

Postel, Charles.  Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896.  New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019.  Pp. 3-13 (Introduction).

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Videos:

“Riveted: The History of Jeans,” American Experience, Public Broadcasting System (2022).

Lea Ypi, “Growing up during the last days of communism,” Penguin Books UK (2021).

Reading:

Weld, Kirsten.  Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.  Pp. 1-26 (Introduction).

“A New Age.”  The Sun [Baltimore], August 11, 1837.

Reading:

Ogle, Vanessa.  “Whose Time Is It? The Pluralization of Time and the Global Condition, 1870s-1940s.”  American Historical Review 118 (2013): 1376-1402.

Reading:

Nixon, Rob.  Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.  Pp. 1-44 (Introduction).

NOTE:  See button at top of webpage for consultation schedule.