Fred Gibbs (fwgibbs@unm.edu)
Mesa Vista Hall, 1077
Office Hours: M 2:30-4; W 9:30-11; almost anytime by appointment


Introductions

12: Introduction the the course, syllabus, and expectations; What Is Historiography?
14: Wilhelm von Humboldt, “On the Historian’s Task,” 57-71.

19: no class (keep reading!)
21: Marc Bloch, The Historian’s Craft, 3-78.

Aesthetics of History

26: Bloch, The Historian’s Craft, 138-197.
28: Carr, What is History?, 1-80.

2: Carr, What is History?, 81-151.
4: Evans, In Defense of History, 1-63.

9: Evans, In Defense of History, 65-137.
11: Evans, In Defense of History, 139-220.

Gender and Technology

16: Langdon Winner, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?,” 121-136.
18: Joan Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” 1053-1075.

Space

23: Charles W. J. Withers, “Place and the ‘Spatial Turn’ in Geography and in History,” 637–58.
25: de Certeau, Practice of Everyday Life 91-110; 115-130.

Cultural Turns

2: Levi-Strauss, Myth and Meaning
4: Clifford Geertz, “Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight,” 56-86.

SPRING BREAK: MAR 8-15 (read Iggers!)

Review

16: George Iggers, Historiography, 1-96.
18: George Iggers, Historiography, 97-147.

Linguistic Turns

23: Elizabeth Clark, History, Theory, Text, 1-62.
25: Elizabeth Clark, History, Theory, Text, 63-105.

30: Elizabeth Clark, History, Theory, Text, 106-185.
1: Check out all of these (they’re easy!)
Michael Wesch, The Machine is Us/ing Us (4.5 min. video).

Aaron Titus, How the Internet Works

Fred Gibbs, A Brief History of Toxicology (please don’t watch the whole thing!) and a short explanation.

Random Course Trailers: Medical Ethics and History and Making the Middle Ages

Advice on How to make an EPIC movie trailer (why are we watching this?)

If you’re unfamiliar with movie editing software, consider Movie Maker (Windows) or iMovie (Mac), or a free trial of Camtasia.

Digital Turns

6: Burdick, et al., Digital_Humanities, 1-61.
8: Burdick, et al., Digital_Humanities, 61-135.

PostPostModern History

13: Guldi and Armitage, History Manifesto, 1-60.
15: NO CLASS

20: Guldi and Armitage, History Manifesto, 61-125.
22: Discussion (returning to a common theme): The Uses of History (and if we need one)

27: Video presentations I
29: Video presentations II

4: Conclusions and Evaluations (maybe)
6: NO CLASS (maybe)