week 1.

week 2.

• Arts and Sciences: Supplementary Materials
  • Historiographical Review essay (example)
    • Jay Sexton, “The Global View of the United States,” HJ 48, 1 (2005): 261-76
      

week 3.

• Early Historians:

week 4.

• Towards Historicism: Supplementary Materials
  
  • Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)
    • J.D. Braw, “Vision as Revision: Ranke and the Beginning of Modern History,” H & T 46, 4 (2007): 45–60
    • F. R. Ankersmit,”Historicism: An Attempt at Synthesis,” H & T 34, 3 (1995): 143-61
    • Anthony Grafton, “The Footnote from de Thou to Ranke,” H & T 33 (1994): 53-76
    • Adrian Wilson and T.G. Ashplant, “Whig History and Present-Centred History,” HJ 31, 1 (1988): 1-16
    • Keith C. Sewell, “The ‘Herbert Butterfield Problem’ and Its Resolution,” Journal of the History of Ideas 64, 4 (2003): 599-618
    • P. Ghosh, “Max Weber’s Idea of ‘Puritanism’: A Case Study in the Empirical Construction of the Protestant Ethic,” History of European Ideas 29 (2003): 183-221
    • E. Sprinzak, “Weber’s Thesis as an Historical Explanation,” H & T 11 (1972): 294-320
    • G. Oakes, “The Verstehen Thesis and the Foundations of Max Weber’s Methodology,” H & T 16 (1977): 11-29
    • Richard Whatmore, “The Weber Thesis: ‘unproven yet unrefuted,’” in Historical Controversies and Historians, ed. W. Lamont (London: UCL Press, 1998), 95-108

week 5.

• Marx: Supplementary Materials
  • Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)
    • E.P. Thompson, “Preface,” The Making of the English Working Class (New York: Vintage, 1963, 1966), 9-14
    • James Sharpe, “History from Below," in New Perspectives in Historical Writing, ed. Peter Burke (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991), 24-41
    • E.P. Thompson, “Eighteenth Century English Society: Class Struggle without Class," Social History 3, 2 (1978): 133-65
    • William H. Sewell, Jr., “How Classes are Made: Critical Reflections on E.P. Thompson’s Theory of Working-Class Formation,” in E.P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives, ed. Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990), 50-77
    • Geoff Eley and Keith Nield, “What is the Valency of Class Now?,” in The Future of Class in History: What’s Left of the Social? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), 139-76
    • Harvey Kaye, “Political Theory and History: Antonio Gramsci and the British Marxist Historians,” in The Education of Desire: Marxists and the Writing of History (New York: Routledge, 1992), 9-30
    • Matt Perry, “Marx and Engels’ Conception of History,” in Marxism and History (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), 29-46
    • S.H. Rigby, “Marxist Historiography,” in Companion to Historiography, ed. Michael Bentley (London: Routledge, 1997), 889-928
    • Bryan D. Palmer, "Reasoning Rebellion: E.P. Thompson, British Marxist Historians, and the Making of Dissident Political Mobilization," Labour/Le Travail (Fall 2002)
    • David Eastwood, “History, politics and reputation: E.P. Thompson reconsidered,” History 85, 280 (2000): 634-54
    • Michael Kenny, “Edward Palmer (E.P.) Thompson,” Political Quarterly 70, 3 (1999): 319-28
    • Bryan D. Palmer, “Making Histories,” in E.P. Thompson: objections and oppositions (London: Verso, 1994), 87-106
    • E.J. Hobsbawm, “Marx and History”, in On History (London, 1997), reprinted in Historians on History, ed. John Tosh (Harlow: Pearson, 2000), 91-8. AS/NK OnR
    • Paul LeBlanc, “The Revolutionary Marxist Synthesis,” in From Marx to Gramsci: A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 1996), 2-19. NK OnR
      

week 6.

• Frontier: Supplementary Materials
  • Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)
    • François Furstenberg, “The Significance of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier in Atlantic History,” AHR 113, 3 (2008): 647-77
    • John Mack Faragher, ed., “Introduction,” and "The Significance of the Frontier in American Historiography: A guide to further reading," in Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (New York: Henry Holt, 1994), 1-10, 225-41
    • Patricia Nelson Limerick, “Introduction,” The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (New York: W. W. Norton, 1987), 16-32
    • Peter Bergmann, “American Exceptionalism and German ‘Sonderweg’ in Tandem,” International History Review 23, 3 (2001): 505-34
    • Ian Tyrrell, “Making Nations/Making States: American Historians in the Context of Empire,” JAH 86, 3 (The Nation and Beyond: Transnational Perspectives on United States History: A Special Issue, 1999): 1015-44

week 7.

• Macro/Micro: Supplementary Materials
  • Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one) on Macrohistory
    • Fernand Braudel, "History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Duree," Annales ESC (1958), reprinted in On History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 25-54
    • Lynn Hunt, “Introduction: History, Culture, Text,” in The New Cultural History, ed. Hunt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), 1-25
    • Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, “Motionless History,” Social Science History 1 (1977): 115-36
    • J.H. Hexter, “Fernand Braudel and the Monde Braudellien…,” JMH 44, 4 (1972): 480-539
    • Editors of the Annales, “History and Social Science: A Critical Turning Point,” Annales ESC 43 (1988), 291-3, as well as Editors of the Annales, “Let’s Try the Experiment,” Annales ESC 44 (1989), 1217-323, both in Histories: French constructions of the past, ed. Jacques Revel and Lynn Hunt (New York: New Press, 1995), 480-91
    • Olivia Harris, “Braudel: Historical Time and the Horror of Discontinuity,” HWJ 57 (2004) 161-74
    • Francois Furet, “Beyond the Annales,” JMH 55, 3 (1983): 389-410
    • John A. Marino, “The Exile and His Kingdom: The Reception of Braudel’s Mediterranean,” JMH 76 (2004): 622-52
  • Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one) on Microhistory
    • Carlo Ginzburg, “Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It,” Critical Inquiry 20, 1 (1993): 10-35
    • Dominick LaCapra, “The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Twentieth Century Historian,” in History and Criticism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), 45-70
    • T. Molho, “Carlo Ginzburg: Reflections on the Intellectual Cosmos of a 20th-Century Historian,” History of European Ideas 30 (2004): 121-48
    • Giovanni Levi, "On Microhistory" in New Perspectives on Historical Writing, ed. Peter Burke (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991),93-113
    • Carlo Ginzburg, “Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm,” in Clues, Myths and the Historical Method (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1980), 96-125
    • “The Stuff of Which History is Made: A Brief Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg,” The Hindu (online, n.d., 2007)
    • M. Gray, “Micro-history as Universal History,” Central European History 34, 3 (2001): 419-31
    • B.S. Gregory, “Is Small Beautiful? Micro-history and the History of Everyday Life’,” H & T 38, 1 (1999): 100-10
    • S.G. Magnusson, “Social History as ‘Sites of Memory’? The Institutionalisation of History: Micro-history and the Grand Narrative,” Journal of Social History 39, 3 (2006): 891-913
    • I. Szijarto, “Four Arguments for Micro-history,” Rethinking History 6, 2 (2002): 209-15

week 8.

• The Linguistic Turn: Supplementary Materials
  • Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)
    • David A. Hollinger, “The return of the prodigal: the persistence of historical knowing,” AHR 94, 3 (1989): 610-21 [and reply by David Harlan in ibid.]
    • David Hollinger, "Postmodernist Theory and Wissenschaftliche Practice," AHR 96 (1991): 688-92
    • F. R. Ankersmit, “Historiography and Postmodernism,” H & T 28, 2 (1989): 137-53
    • Patrick Joyce, “The return of history: postmodernism and the politics of academic history in Britain,” P & P 158 (1998): 207-35
    • Patrick Joyce, “The End of Social History,” in Historians on History, ed. John Tosh (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000), 274-82
    • Patrick Joyce, “The Politics of the Liberal Archive,” History of the Human Sciences 12, 2 (1999): 35-49
    • Ann Laura Stoler, “Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance,” Archival Sciences 2 (2002): 87-109
    • various authors, "Interchange: The Practice of History," JAH 90, 2 (2003)
    • James Vernon, “Who's afraid of the ‘linguistic turn’: the politics of social history and its discontents,” Social History 19 (1994): 81-97
    • John E. Toews, “Intellectual history after the linguistic turn: the autonomy of meaning and the irreducibility of experience,” AHR 92 (1987)
    • Gareth Stedman Jones, “The determinist fix: some obstacles to the further development of the linguistic approach to history in the 1990s,” HWJ 42 (1996): 19-35

week 9.

• Gender: Supplementary Materials
  • Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)
    • Manuela Thurner, “Subject to Change: Theories and Paradigms of U.S. Feminist History,” Journal of Women’s History 9, 2 (1997): 122-46
    • Alice Kessler-Harris, “What is Gender History Now?” in What is History Now?, ed. David Cannadine (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002): 95-112
    • Joan Wallach Scott, "Women's History," in New Perspectives on Historical Writing, ed. Peter Burke (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991): 42-66
    • Joan Kelly, "Did Women Have a Renaissance?," in Women, H & T (1984), 19-50
    • C. Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate," Gender and History 1 (1989): 7-30
    • Mary Louise Roberts, “Gender, Consumption, and Commodity Culture,” AHR 103, 3 (1998): 817-44
    • Hilda Smith, "Feminism and the Methodology of Women's History," Liberating Women's History, ed. Bernice Carroll (Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1976), 369-84
    • Mrinalini Sinha, “Gender and Nation,” Women’s History in Global Perspective, ed. Bonnie G. Smith (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 229-74
    • Melinda Zook, “Integrating Men's History into Women's History: A Proposition,” History Teacher 35, 3 (2002): 373-87
    • Laura Lee Downs, “Gender, poststructuralism and the 'cultural/linguistic turn' in history,” in Writing Gender History (2004), 88-105
    • Laura Lee Downs, “From Women’s History to Gender History,” in Writing History: Theory and Practice, ed. S. Berger, H. Feldner and K. Passmore (London: Hodder Arnold H&S, 2003), 261-82
    • Editorial Collective, “Why Gender and History?,” Gender and History 1, 1 (1989): 1-12
    • Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Beyond the Americas: Are
      Gender and Sexuality Useful Categories of Analysis?” Journal of Women’s History 18, 1 (2006): 11–21
    • Amanda Vickery, "Shaking the separate spheres: Did women really descend into graceful indolence?," TLS (12 March 1993): 6-7

week 10.

• Orientalism and the Postcolonial: Supplementary Materials
  • Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)
    • Philip Pomper, “World History and its Critics,” H & T 34, 2 (1995): 1-7
    • William H. McNeil, “The Changing Shape of World History,” H & T 34, 2 (1995): 8-26
    • Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Presence of Europe: An Interview with Dipesh Chakrabarty,” South Atlantic Quarterly 101, 4 (2002): 859-68
    • Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Historiography,” Nepantla 1, 1 (2000): 9-32
    • Ranajit Guha, “The Prose of Counterinsurgency,” in Selected Subaltern Studies, ed. Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Spivak (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 45-84
    • Ranajit Guha, “Introduction,” A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), ix-xxii
    • William A. Green, "Periodizing World History," H & T 34, 2 (1995): 99-111
    • G. Prakash, et al, AHR Forum, AHR 99 (1994): including
      • G. Prakash, “Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism,” idem, 1475-90
      • F. E. Mallon, “The Promise and Dilemma of Subaltern Studies,” idem, 1491-515
      • F. Cooper, “Conflict and Contention,” idem, 1516-45
    • G. C. Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?,” in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. C. Nelson and L. Grossberg (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988), 271-313
    • "ReOrientalism?," special issues on the work of Andre Gunder Frank, Review of the Fernand Braudel Center 22, 3 (1999)

week 11.

• Culture and Resistance: Supplementary Materials
  • Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)
    • Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” in The Interpretation of Cultures, 412-54
    • Stephen Greenblatt, “The Touch of the Real,” Representations 59 (The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond, 1997): 14-29
    • William H. Sewell Jr., “Geertz, Cultural Systems, and History: From Synchrony to Transformation,” Representations 59 (1997): 35-55
    • Robert Darnton, “The Symbolic Element in History,” JMH 58 (1986): 218-34
    • Aletta Biersack, “Local Knowledge, Local History: Geertz and Beyond,” in The New Cultural History, ed. Lynn Hunt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), 72-96
    • T.J. Jackson Lears, “The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities,” AHR 90, 3 (1985): 567-93
    • Robin D. G. Kelley,“An Archaeology of Resistance” (Review of Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts, by James C. Scott, 1992), American Quarterly 44, 2 (1992): 292-98
    • Simon Gunn, “Power,” in History and Cultural Theory (London: Longman Pearson, 2006), 82-9

week 12.

• Post-Modernism and the History of emotions: Supplementary Materials
  • Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)
    • Terrence J. Mcdonald, ed., “Introduction,” The historic turn in the human sciences (University of Michigan Press, 1996), 1-16
    • Bonnel and Hunt, “Introduction,” Beyond the Cultural Turn, ed. Victoria E. Bonnel and Lynn Hunt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 1-34
    • Colin Jones, “A Fine ‘Romance’ with No Sisters?,” French Historical Studies 19 (1995): 277-87 [also response by Lynn Hunt, “Reading the French Revolution: A Reply,” French Historical Studies 19 (1995): 289-98]
    • Dominick LaCapra, “Is Everyone a Mentalité Case? Transference and the ‘Culture’ Concept,” H & T 23 (1984): 296-311, reprinted in LaCapra, History and Criticism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), 71-94
    • L. Nussdorfer, “The New Cultural History,” H & T 32 (1993): 74-83
    • P. Stewart, “This Is Not a Book Review: On Historical Uses of Literature,” JMH 66 (1994): 521-38 [also reply by Lynn Hunt, “The Objects of History: A Reply To Philip Stewart,” JMH 66 (1994): 539-46]
    • Jeffrey Weeks, “Foucault for Historians,” HWJ 14 (1982): 106-19
    • G. Noiriel, “Foucault and history: the lessons of a disillusion,” JMH 66 (1994): 547-68
    • A. Munslow, “Michel Foucault and history,” in Deconstructing History (1997), 120-39
    • A. Megill, “The Reception of Foucault by Historians,” Journal of the History of Ideas 48 (1987): 117-41
    • Hayden White, “Structuralism and Popular Culture,” Journal of Popular Culture 7 (1974): 759-75
    • R. Koshar, “Foucault and Social History: Comments on Combined Underdevelopment,” AHR 98 (1993); M. S. Roth, “Foucault’s ‘History of the Present’,” H & T 20, 1 (1981): 32-46
    • Peter N. Stearns and Carol Z. Stearns, “Emotionology: Clarifying the History of Emotions and Emotional Standards,” AHR 90, 4 (1985): 813-36
    • Barbara H. Rosenwein, "Worrying about Emotions in History," AHR 107, 3 (2002)
    • Jan Plamper, “The History of Emotions: an Interview with William Reddy, Barbara Rosenwein, and Peter Stearns,” H & T 49, 2 (2010): 1468-2303

week 13.

• Beyond the Cultural Turn?: Supplementary Materials
  • Articles for Seminar Leaders’ Reports (choose one)
    • J.H. Anold, “Responses to the Postmodern Challenge; or What Might History Become?,” European History Quarterly 37, 1 (2007): 109-32
    • Geoff Eley, “Historicizing the Global, Politicizing Capital: Giving the Present a Name,” HWJ 63, 1 (2007): 154-88
    • Richard J. Evans, “From Historicism to Postmodernism: Historiography in the Twentieth Century,” a review of George Iggers, Historiography in the Twentieth Century: from Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge, H & T 41, 1 (2002): 79-8
    • Review Essays: What's Beyond the Cultural Turn?," AHR December 2002 (18 Nov. 2009)
    • Patrick Hagopian, review of The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present, and Future, ed. by James W. Cook, Lawrence B. Glickman, and Michael O’Malley (2008, review no. 807)

week 14.

week 15.

• Conclusion(s)