Fred Gibbs (fwgibbs@unm.edu)
Mesa Vista Hall, 1077
Office Hours: M 2:30-4; W 9:30-11; almost anytime by appointment
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.
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.
16: Langdon Winner, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?,” 121-136.
18: Joan Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” 1053-1075.
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.
2: Levi-Strauss, Myth and Meaning
4: Clifford Geertz, “Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight,” 56-86.
16: George Iggers, Historiography, 1-96.
18: George Iggers, Historiography, 97-147.
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.
6: Burdick, et al., Digital_Humanities, 1-61.
8: Burdick, et al., Digital_Humanities, 61-135.
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)