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
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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
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