History 480: Theory & Methods in History

Highly recommended for all history majors, preferably in the fall of your junior year.

CLASS ASSIGNMENTS, PAPER INSTRUCTIONS, ETC.

Syllabus

 

CLASS EXERCISES:

     Why do we Study History?


PAPER INSTRUCTIONS:

Browning/Goldhagen Paper Instructions
 

Reserve Readings for Frontier Thesis Assignment

Sample Annotated Bibliography

Final Paper Instructions

Sample Primary Document Analysis

One Model for Final Paper


SENIOR THESIS AND GRADING INFORMATION

Senior Thesis Schedule
     complete with Sample Senior Thesis Syllabi.


Departmental Grading Standards

RESERVE READINGS, SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS, ITEMS OF INTEREST

ARTICLES OF INTEREST:
Louis Menand, "The Historical Romance," from New Yorker, 2003

Adam Gopnik, "The Big One":
     Are there historical lessons,
     or only  delusions?


SUPPLEMENTARY READING ON THE HOLOCAUST
    

The Goldhagen-Browning Debate

Browning/Goldhagen Study Questions

Review of Browning, Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony
 


LINKS FOR CLASS EXERCISES

WPA Slave Narratives from Library of Congress


Frederick Jackson Turner

Ten Commandments of Historical Writing


UCCS Library