Expanded Course Descriptions - Spring 2013

HIS 300-H001    Historians for Hire: A Seminar in Historical Research Methods

Professor Kevin Greene

Reg. Code 1424

MW 5:00-6:15                                                    

 

COURSE STRUCTURE

History 300 is a capstone course in your study of history. The course will focus on the process of historical research and historiography and will culminate with your completion of a 5000 word, detailed Research Paper.  There will be two formal discussions of required readings during the semester.   In addition to your readings we will have a number of scheduled tours of the library and special collections that are specifically designed to help you with your project. (See Course Syllabus for dates.)  Near the end of the semester you will present your research to the class in a formal presentation.  This course is one of three Writing Intensive (WI) courses USM history majors must complete—with at least a C—in order to graduate.

LEARNING OUTCOMES 

  • To learn how to use all the tools of historical research to locate both primary and secondary sources.
  • To master the techniques of clear, concise, persuasive, well-reasoned, and authoritative writing.
  • To grasp changes in historical thought and the construction of history over time.
  • To understand and process what other scholars have written on your topic.
  • To produced a polished, professional-quality piece of original historical scholarship.

 

Readings                                  

John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction.ISBN: 9780192853523 

Conal Furay and Michael J. Salevouris. The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide. 2nd ed.  ISBN: 0882952722

Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing History. ISBN: 9780312610416         

William Strunk and E.B.White, The Elements of Style. ISBN: 0205313426

Final Grade Composition:

Your final grade will be a function of the following factors                    Grading Scale

Class Participation                           10% = 100pts                            A = 90%-100%

Peer-Reviewed Book Review             10% = 100pts                           B = 89%-80%

Exam I                                              0% = 100pts                            C = 79%-70%

Exam II                                           10% = 100pts                            D = 69%-60%

Website Critique                               10% = 100pts                            F = 59%

Research Proposal                             5% = 50pts

Research Prospectus                         15% = 150pts

Final Research project                       30% = 300pts

                                                    100% = 1000pts

 

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HIS 300-H002    Historical Research Seminar

Professor Andrew Haley

Reg. Code 1976

MW 2:00-3:15

History is our best effort at reconstructing and understanding the past.  In this required core course, students will learn the basics of historical research from note taking to thesis formation, and over the course of the semester will prepare a term paper based on original research.  Topics explored by the course will include:  What do historians do?  What is historical significance?  How does one identify a research problem?  What are primary and secondary sources?  How does one locate sources?  Why read what others have already written about a topic?  How does one organize original research?  What constitutes a meaningful historical thesis?  How does one structure a historical argument?  What are footnotes and why are we required to cite everything we use?  How does one construct an introduction, conclusion, and bibliography?  What is editing?  Where do I find a scholarly voice (or how can I sound professional without being pompous)?  And, what is the best way to celebrate a finished research paper?

History 300 is a task-based class.  Students will have regular reading and research assignments leading up to the final paper.  In addition, students will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience in historical preservation with a community-based historic society.

The course is organized around a course website and one required textbook.

Pocket Guide to Writing in History

Mary Lynn Rampolla, Bedford/St. Martins, 6th Edition, 2009, 9780312446734

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History 300-H003    Research Seminar

Professor Allison Abra

Reg. Code 5418

TTH 11:00-12:15

What is history, why does it matter, and how do historians study and write about it? The goal of this course is to introduce students to the practice and writing of history, both by reading historical scholarship and through the production of their own original research paper. The course will be composed of discussions and assignments designed to help students develop their skills in critical reading, archival research, and the mechanics of historical writing (ranging from how to find sources in the library and on the internet, to when and how to employ citations and footnotes.) Students will also complete a series of assignments based around the stages of historical research: identifying a topic, locating primary and secondary sources, and writing multiple drafts of their findings. By the end of the semester, every student will have produced a substantial and polished piece of original historical writing, and be better prepared to undertake upper-division work as a student of history.

Required Texts:

  • John J. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). ISBN: 978-0192853523.
  • Conal Furay and Michael J. Salevouris, The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide, 3rd. Edition, (Harlan Davidson, 2010). ISBN: 978-0882952727.

 

Course Requirements

Seminar participation / Exercises from Methods and Skills of History: 15%

Website critique: 10%

Book review: 10%

Peer review report (on a fellow student’s paper draft): 5%

Research paper

  • Research proposal: 3%
  • Annotated bibliography: 7%
  • Oral presentation: 10%
  • Rough drafts:15%
  • Final draft: 25%

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HIS 304-H001    Survey of Islamic History

Professor Douglas B. Chambers

Reg. Code 10195

TTH 9:30-10:45

This course is designed for upper-division undergraduates to gain a basic working knowledge of Islamic history from earliest times to the present, and in the process for you to develop further your analytical, reading-comprehension and writing skills. Classes will be mix of lecture and discussion. There will be a range of graded assignments, including a midterm exam and several short papers, and each student’s final grade will represent her/his highest consistent level of performance.

Required texts will include:

  • Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History. New York: The Modern Library, 2002.
  • Dawood, N. J., trans.  The Koran, 7th rev. ed.  New York: Penguin, 2000.

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HIS 310-H001    Survey of Latin American History

Professor Matthew Casey

Reg. Code 8262

MWF 11:00–11:50

This course is designed to introduce students to the social, cultural, and political history of Latin America from pre-Columbian times to the present. The course will focus on three themes of fundamental importance to the region: (1) the challenge of political stability and economic growth, (2) the relationship between Latin America and other countries, and (3) the effects of racial, socioeconomic, and gender inequality in the region.  Each unit will begin with a broad overview of the region during a specific time period before focusing on a single country case study.  Throughout the semester, students will be exposed to music, film excerpts, paintings, poetry and other non-traditional primary sources in order to understand the cultural history of the region.  One of the main goals of this course is to illustrate the ways that individuals and local communities experienced history as they lived it.  The readings for this course reflect this.  In addition to a textbook, students will read two first-person accounts and one community-level study from different times and places in the region.  Students will be evaluated on three papers (3 to 5 pages each), two exams in essay format (a mid-term and a final), and their participation in class discussions.

Required Texts:

  • John Charles Chasteen, Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, Third Edition, (W.W. Norton & Company, 2011).  ISBN-13: 978-0393911541
  • Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui, History of How the Spaniards Arrived in Peru, Dual Language Edition, translated, with an introduction, by Catherine Julien, (Hackett Publishing Company, 2006).  ISBN-13: 978-0872208285
  • Carolina Maria de Jesus, Bitita’s Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus, Edited by Robert M. Levine, Translated by Beth Joan Vinkler (M.E. Sharpe Inc, 1997).  ISBN-13: 978-0765602121
  • Mark Danner, Massacre at El Mozote (Vintage, 1994).  ISBN-13: 978-0679755258

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HIS 331-H001    Later Medieval Europe

Professor Phyllis Jestice

Reg. Code 10875

MWF 10:00-10:50

This course is an examination of the period in history when Europe can really be said to have become Europe—the later Middle Ages.  Why did Germany have such an enormous chip on its shoulder and will to empire in the twentieth century?—we’ll examine the civil war that ripped Germany apart so thoroughly that it took Bismarck to put it together again.  Why do we have representative governments?—they have their roots in the English parliamentary system and the city oligarchies of this period.  We eat with forks, employ double-entry book-keeping, until very recently relied on the printing press. . . go to universities.  They’re all products of the later Middle Ages.  This course will examine highlights of European history from 1056 until sometime around 1500, focusing especially on the political and cultural history of this unjustly maligned era.

Required Text:

  • Miller, Maureen C.  Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict: A Brief History with Documents.  Bedford/St.
  • Martin’s, 2005 (ISBN 0312404689).
  • Radice, Betty, trans.  The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, rev. ed.  Penguin, 2004 (ISBN 0140448993).
  • Dawson, Christopher, ed. & trans.  Mission to Asia.  University of Toronto Press, 1980 (ISBN 0802064361).
  • Beroul.  The Romance of Tristan, trans. Alan S. Fedrick.  Penguin, 1978 (ISBN 0140442308).
  • Barber, Richard, ed. & trans.  The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince.  Boydell, 2002 (ISBN 0851154697).
  • Kempe, Margery.  The Book of Margery Kempe, trans. Barry Windeatt.  Penguin, 1986 (ISBN 0140432515).

The work for the class will include an expectation of regular class attendance, occasional quizzes on the reading assignments, two papers based on the class readings, a midterm, and a final.

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HIS 334-H001    Twentieth Century Europe

Professor Allison Abra

Reg. Code 9341

TTH 1:00-2:15

In the twentieth century, Europe was rocked by two catastrophic world wars, the Holocaust, and a series of revolutions and nationalist uprisings at home and around the world. Europe also served as a primary location for and a catalyst to Cold War tensions between East and West, and the European powers experienced – and in some cases brutally resisted – the end of their colonial empires. But for all of the moments of profound darkness, this century also witnessed the expansion of social and political rights for growing numbers of European men and women, the emergence of multicultural societies, and thriving artistic and cultural movements across the Continent.  This course will chart all of these events and developments using an array of primary and secondary sources, and utilizing approaches from social, cultural, political, and military history.

Required Texts:

  • Bonnie G. Smith, Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present: A Narrative History with Documents (New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007), ISBN: 978-0312406998.
  • Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, (Ballantine Books, 1996), ISBN: 978-0449911495.
  • Irene Gut Opdyke, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, (Laurel Leaf, 2004): 978-0553494112.
  • Azouz Begag, Shantytown Kid (Bison Books, 2007), ISBN: 978-0803262584.

Course requirements

Map quiz: 5%

Paper 1 (5-6 pages on All Quiet and British war poetry): 20%

Paper 2 (4-5 pages on Shantytown Kid): 15%

Participation/book and primary source discussions: 15%

Midterm exam: 20%

Final exam: 25%

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HIS 370-01     MISSISSIPPI HISTORY
Professor Bo Morgan

Reg. Code 2003
MWF 11:00-11:50

Yes, this is indeed a course on the history of the great state of Mississippi.  Come and gain a fuller understanding of your state, its triumphs and tragedies, successes and challenges, from Native American settlements to the present day.

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HIS 374-H001  African American History from 1890-2013 

Professor Kevin Greene

Reg. Code 11065

MWF 11:00-11:50

Course Description and Objectives: This course covers the African American experience in the United States from 1890 to the present. The requirements for this course include assigned readings for each class, periodic assignments and quizzes on the assigned readings, two papers, and two exams. Students who complete this course will have a greater appreciation for basic facts about African American history. They will understand the complexities of emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow Segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, and the black experience in the 21st Century.  They will understand how African American history has been produced and reproduced over time and should seek to improve upon their communication, analytical thinking, and writing skills.  We will approach this subject the way that historians do—by engaging in a systematic examination of African Americans’ experiences from 1890 to 2013.  The format for the course is lecture and discussion. We will explore primary documents in which African Americans speak of their experiences but we will also investigate historians’ efforts to represent African Americans’ experiences. We will also rely upon a rich analysis of American culture—film, music, and literature—to understand this history.

Class Meetings: Class meetings will begin with lecture with the remainder of the class dedicated to a detailed discussion of the assigned readings in hopes of creating a strong intellectual community of thirsty minds.

Assigned Readings:

Davarian Baldwin, Chicago’s New Negroes. ISBN: 0807857998

John Dittmer, Local People.  ISBN: 0252065077

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk.  ISBN: 1612931073

Tera Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom. ISBN: 0674893085

Robin D.G. Kelley and Lewis, To Make Our World Anew.  ISBN: 0195181352

Neil McMillen, Dark Journey, 025206156X

Jeffery O.G. Ogbar, Hip-Hop Revolution.  ISBN: 07006616519

  

Final Grade Composition                                                                           Grade Scale

Participation                                10% = 100pts                      90% -100 = A

Assignments and Quizzes             15% = 150pts                       89% - 80 = B

Midterm Exam                             20% = 200pts                       79% - 70 = C

Final Exam                                   25% = 250pts                      69% - 60 = D

Papers (2x15%)                            30% = 300pts                      59% -      = F

                                                 Total = 100%/1000pts

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HIS 400-H001    Communities at War, 1600-2000

Professor Kyle F. Zelner

Reg. Code: 5453

TTH 9:30-10:15                 

This capstone course will examine the effects of war on communities.  The class will investigate the theme of home fronts from the early modern era through the late twentieth century. Some of the questions we will explore include:

●How did armed conflict influence the development of towns? 

●What happened to communities when they sent citizens off to fight? 

●How did wartime destruction effect communities? 

●What was daily life like in communities during wartime for civilians? 

●How does war production shape the growth of cities and towns? 

HIS 400 is the required capstone class for all history majors and as such, the class will include a mixture of discussion seminars and considerable independent study time.  For the first several weeks, students will read a number of books and articles about communities at war and discuss them in a seminar setting.  Students will write a research paper that is an original history of a community at war, based on primary documents such as newspapers, oral histories, and other accounts.  Considerable class time at the end of the semester will be devoted to student research in the library.   In addition to their major research paper (15-20 pages), students will be required to give a formal oral presentation on their work. 

These are the books we will read for the class:

Richard Melvoin.  New England Outpost: War and Society in Colonial Deerfield.  New York: Norton, 1989. ISBN: 0393308081

Judith L. Van Buskirk.  Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York.  Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press,2002.  ISBN: 978-0812218220

J. Matthew Gallman.  Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War.  Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.  ISBN: 0812217446

Amy Helen Bell.  London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz.  I. B. Tauris, 2011.  ISBN: 978-1848858497

Roger W. Lotchin.  The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego.  Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press: 2003.  ISBN: 0253215463

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HIS 416/516-H001    World War II        

Professor Kenneth Swope

Reg. Code 10876/10878

MWF 12:00-12:50

This course will offer a detailed examination of the origins and course of the Second World War.  Contrary to many such treatments, all theaters of the war will be covered and the motivations and strategies of all the major belligerents will be considered.  Readings include a survey text, assorted primary sources, and scholarly monographs.  Students will also have the opportunity to watch film clips from the era as well as modern clips that demonstrate how the different nations involved remember and represent their participation in this global conflict.  By the end of the class students should have a solid grasp of the relationship between the various theaters of the war and how the war transformed the entire world and set the stage for the Cold War and decolonization, among other things.  Students will be assessed on the basis of a midterm, a final examination, a 4-5 page primary source analysis paper, an 8-10 page research paper, quizzes, and class participation.  Graduate students will have to write different papers of a historiographical nature, complete additional readings, and attend additional meetings with the instructor.

Required Texts for all students:

  • Peter Calvocoressi, et al, The Penguin History of the Second World War ISBN: 10-0140285024 (Newest/2nd edition)
  • Theodore & Haruko Taya Cook, Japan at War: An Oral History ISBN: 10-1565840399 (Newest reprint edition)
  • E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa ISBN: 10-0891419195 (Latest edition)
  • Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism ISBN: 10865274630 (Latest edition)
  • John Strawson, Hitler as Military Commander ISBN: 10-0850529565 (Pen & Sword Classics edition)
  • Diana Lary, The Chinese People at War ISBN: 10521144108 (Paperback edition)

 The following two texts are optional for 416 but required for 516 (graduate) students:

  • Yuki Tanaka, Hidden Horrors ISBN: 10-0813327180
  • Omer Bartov, Hitler’s Army ISBN: 10-0195079035

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HIS 417/517-H001    Vietnam War

Professor Andrew Wiest

Reg. Code 9338/9339

TT 11:00-12:15

This course uses a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate the Vietnam War, arguably the most important event, or series of events, in the history of 20th century America. The United States entered the conflict unified behind the doctrine of the Cold War.  Idealistic American youth answered the call defend their nation against Communist aggression.  But by the end of the war America had suffered its first ever defeat and its society was in turmoil.  America would never be the same, or as innocent, ever again.  Over 3 million Americans served in Vietnam, and over 58,000 lost their lives there in a unique national tragedy.  In Vietnam itself over 2.4 million people perished in a brutal civil war that impacted society there in a way few outsiders can understand.

The course will investigate Vietnamese culture, the antecedents to the war, the Fist Indochina War, the military prosecution of the American war in Vietnam, the political battles on the American home front and the ramifications of the US defeat in Vietnam.  The course will also focus on less-known topics such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the music of the era, theories of counterinsurgency and wartime literature.  The course is enriched by the participation of several Vietnam veterans.  Simply put there is no better way to learn of Vietnam than through the eyes of those who participated in the conflict.  Past class participants have included: Marines, helicopter pilots, nurses, CIA operatives, a contentious objector, medics, a Phoenix Program operative, South and North Vietnamese veterans, a member of the Weather Underground, pilots, POWs, a SOG operative and countless “grunts.”

 Course readings will include:

  • Wiest – The Boys of ’67:  Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam
  • Bao Ninh – The Sorrow of War
  • Stur -- Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era
  • McMaster -- Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

Course participants will produce book reviews of each book.  The average of the book reviews will form 33% of the final grade.  Students will also take one midterm and one final – each comprising 33% of the final grade.

 Graduate Students enrolled in HIS 517 will read and report on two additional books:

  • Logevall -- Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
  • Nguyen -- Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam

Graduate students will also produce a research paper (15-20 pages), based at least in part on primary source material and will take part in additional seminars with the instructor. 

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History 447-H001    Victorian Britain

Professor Allison Abra

Reg. Code 11128

TTH 8:00-9:15

 Queen Victoria sat upon the throne of Great Britain and its empire from 1837 until 1901. Her reign encapsulated one of the defining periods in modern British history, and one that represented a set of strong contradictions. The British possessed a vast and powerful empire on which the “sun never set,” but carried out oppressions and atrocities under the guise of benevolent imperialism. Britain was also the global leader in trade and industry, but for all of its wealth and power, British society was crippled with appalling crime and poverty. Politically, Britain managed to avoid the series of revolutions that rocked the European continent, while its liberal democratic institutions expanded to include ever more people, but class conflict remained rampant and large numbers of men and women still lacked basic political rights well into the twentieth century. Finally, the Victorians, emblemized in legendary figures like Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters, Gilbert & Sullivan and Charles Darwin, produced remarkable advances in the sciences and the arts, but at the same time millions of Britons lacked access to basic education. This course will analyze these contradictions, and, using an array of both primary and secondary material, illuminate how historians and the Victorians themselves have understood this pivotal era in the history of Britain and the world.

Required Texts:

  • Charles Dickens, Hard Times, (Simon & Schuster, 2007). ISBN: 978-1416523734.
  • Richard Aldous, The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli, (W.W. Norton & Company, 2007). ISBN: 978-0393065701.
  • Angus Mclaren, A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Doctor Thomas Neill Cream, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), ISBN: 978-0226560687.
  • Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World, (Verso, 2002). ISBN: 978-1859843826.

Note: there will be additional course readings in the form of journal articles and book chapters provided via online sources. Graduate students will be required to read several other books and articles for their reading journal (chosen from a list provided by the instructor), and write a slightly longer research paper.

Course Requirements

Reading journal: 20%

Individual research project (oral presentation: 10% + written paper: 20%): 30%

Film review paper: 10%

Final exam: 25%

Class participation: 15%

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HIS 464-H001    The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Professor Andrew Haley

Reg. Code 10856

MW 3:30-4:45

Over the course of little more than fifty years, the United States turned its back on its rural heritage and embraced an industrial, technological future that included electric lights and telephones, skyscrapers and airplanes, jazz musicians and dance halls.  However, the rapid transformation had a high cost.  Millionaires rose to power and workers struggled for rights, immigrants flooded America’s shores and native-born Americans fretted about assimilation, consumerism eroded traditional values and social reformers struggled to stamp out vices from cigarettes to divorce.  While many celebrated America’s emergence as a world economic power and argued that the military should follow the money across the globe, others raised concerns about the dangers that unfettered economic growth and military imperialism posed to democracy.

During the second five-week summer session, we will explore topics from the Jim Crow South to Wilson’s vision for the League of Nations.  Students will be asked to read six historical novels and four modest-length analytical papers that relate the novels to the course themes.  Graduate students should expect additional assignments.

Required Texts:

  • The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Documentary Reader
    • William A. Link and Susannah J. Link, ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 1st edition, 2012
    • 9781444331394
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham
    • William Dean Howells, Penguin, 1963
    • 9780451524966
  • Maggie, Girl of the Streets
    • Stephen Crane, Signet Classics, 2006
    • 978-0451529985
  • The Marrow of Tradition
    • Charles Chesnutt, Dover, 2003
    • 9780486431635
  • Herland
    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dover, 1998
    • 9780486404295
  • Damnation of Theron Ware
    • Harold Frederic, Belknap Press, 1996
    • 9780674190016
  • Alice Adams
    • Booth Tarkington, Indiana University Press, 2003
    • 9780253215932

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HIS 477/577-H001    Women in American Society

Professor Pamela Tyler

Reg. Code 10857/11068

TT 2:25-3:40

Four centuries of American women's experiences, focusing on the astonishing changes in women's work, education, legal and political status, and sex roles, with attention to variables such as race, class, region, and sexual orientation. One theme will be the efforts of women to deal with stifling limitations placed on them by law, the church and tradition; another theme will be the resistance to change by those with conflicting visions of women's lives.  Course is lecture/discussion, with videos and guest speakers at intervals. Meaningful participation expected of everyone who enrolls.

Students will write 3 short papers (3-4 typed pages), based on assigned readings. No research paper, but a final interpretative essay (10-12 pp.) based on the assigned readings is required.  There will be assigned readings for every class, which will form the basis of discussion.  Books include a reader (scholarly articles & primary sources), 2 novels, and 1 biography.  Grade will be based on midterm exam ( 20 %), final exam (40  %); final essay (20%); participation (20%), which is defined as regular, meaningful contribution to discussion & regular attendance, plus the 3 short papers.

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HIS 479/579-H001    Why We Smoke: History, Culture, Science, Law and the North American Origins of the Global Tobacco Epidemic

Professor Louis M. Kyriakoudes

Reg. Code 10877/10881

MW 2:00-3:15pm.

The human toll of cigarette smoking defies the imagination: one in five deaths in the United States and nearly one in ten globally is caused by tobacco-related disease, resulting in a global death toll of 100 million in the 20th Century. The World Health Organization predicts 21st-century global cigarette mortality to reach one billion if trends continue.

From its origins in the late-nineteenth century United States, the machine-manufactured cigarette has spread world-wide fostering a global pandemic. Cigarettes have been the spearheads of modern consumerism. The scientific quest to understand the causes of smoking-related diseases transformed medical research. Finally, the issue of smoking and health played a significant role in the emergence of modern public health activism. As smoking declines in western industrialized nations, the tobacco industry has turned it sights to the developing world. The health consequences will be enormous. In this course we will view the cigarette epidemic from multiple perspectives: popular culture, advertising and marketing, the economy, politics, consumerism, public health, and the history of science and medicine.

Assigned books:

Peter Benson, Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry (2010).

Sharon Eubanks and Stanton Glanz, Bad Acts: The Racketeering Case Against the Tobacco Industry (2012).

David Kessler, A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry (2002).

Robert N. Proctor, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition (2011).

Plus additional readings online and on reserve at the library.

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HIS 481-H001    Topics Pre-Mod Eur

Professor Miles Doleac

Reg. Code 8801

Tuesday 6:30-9:15

ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND HIS LEGACY: This course will focus on the cultural, political and military exploits of Philip II and, especially, Alexander "the Great" of Macedon, from Philip's emergence as the effective leader of the Greek world until the Wars of the Diadochoi (the marshals and associates of Alexander) tore Alexander's far-flung world empire apart in the wake of his death. Special consideration will be given to the military strategy, battlefield tactics and logistics, to the question of "Hellenization," commonly attributed to Alexander via his decade-long campaign from Asia Minor to India and to separating the "myth" of Alexander from the historical personage. 

Required Texts:

  • Arrian. The Campaigns of Alexander, rev. ed. Translated by Aubrey De Sélincourt. London: Penguin Books, 1976, ISBN-10: 0140442537, ISBN-13: 978-0140442533
  • Borza, Eugene N. In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN-10: 0691008809, ISBN-13: 978-0691008806
  • Engels, Donald W. Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980. ISBN-10: 0520042727, ISBN-13: 978-0520042728
  • Mossé, Claude. Alexander: Destiny and Myth. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2004. ISBN-10: 0801879965
  • Plutarch, The Age of Alexander, rev. ed. Translated by Ian-Scott Kilvert. London: Penguin Books, 2012. ISBN-10: 0140449353, ISBN-13: 978-0140449358
  • Pseudo-Callisthenes. The Greek Alexander Romance. Translated by Richard Stoneman. London: Penguin Books, 1991. ISBN-10: 0140445609, ISBN-13: 978-0140445602
  • Quintus Curtius Rufus. The History of Alexander. Translated by John Yardley. London: Penguin Books, 1984. ISBN-10: 0140444122, ISBN-13: 978-0140444124

The class will be reading and writing intensive. Grade will be based on four five-page discussion papers on topics provided by the instructor, a mid-term examination, a final term paper of 12-15 pages and participation in weekly class discussions. Students will be expected to have read and formed opinions about primary evidence and secondary scholarship and be able to articulate those opinions in a class setting.

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HIS 487-H001    Current Issues in Social Studies

Mrs. Mary Beth Farrell

Reg. Code 9344

Thursday 3:50-6:25

Current Issues in Social Studies is a three-hour class that focuses on trends, resources, methods, and standards in social studies education on the secondary level.   Local teachers and administrators will serve as guest presenters.  IVN technology will be used to make the course available to students on the Gulf Park campus. This course should be taken before HIS 488: Methods of Teaching Social Studies, since it will aid in their preparation for the teaching practicum in HIS 488.  A gold card and a TK20 subscription is required for this course; this course is only for History Licensure majors.

Assigned readings: A current article related to Social Studies and/or History education will be assigned each week. 

Also required: The NCSS Thematic Standards for Teachers, the Mississippi Educators' Code of Ethics, and the Mississippi Curriculum Framework for Social Studies 7-12. All are available free on-line. 

Reguired Texts:

  • Wong, Harry and Rosemary. The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher, 4th Edition.  (Harry K. Wong Publications, 2009.) This text is also required for student teaching.
  • Gregory, Gayle H. and Lin Kuzmich.  Differentiated Literacy Strategies for Student Growth and Achievement in Grades 7-12. (Corwin Press, 2005.)
  • Martorella, Peter H., Candy M. Beal, and Cheryl Mason Bolick. Teaching Social Studies in Middle and Secondary Schools, 5th Edition. (Prentice Hall, 2008.) This text will also be a resource for HIS 488: Methods of Teaching Social Studies, 7-12.

Course work: In addition to lecture, discussion, and assigned readings, participants will complete 10 reflective writings on observations of teachers in local schools, Website critiques, weekly reports on current articles on Social Studies and History teaching, and weekly assigned readings from the course textbooks.  In lieu of a final examination, a final project of original lesson plans, assessments, and PowerPoint presentation will be due on the last day of class. A dispositions assessment will evaluate students on important attributes of professional educators, such as positive attitude, courtesy, appropriate use of technology, ethical behavior, and willingness to accept constructive criticism.

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HIS 722    War and society historiography 

Professor Kyle Zelner         

Reg. Code: 10368

Wed. 6:30-9:15

This course, required of all War and Society MA students and required/highly recommended for all other graduate students taking a field in War & Society, will explore the various fields and themes of War and Society historiography, with a non-exclusive focus on early American history (1600-1865).  The field of War & Society (or what used to be called “new Military History”) has grown tremendously since its inception in the 1980s.  Less concerned with strategy, tactics, and weapons than traditional military historians, War & Society scholars study the historic effect of conflict on various aspects of society, as well as the way societal values and culture influenced how wars were fought.  In this class, we will examine representative works on themes such as war and race, ethnicity, gender, class, and culture/mentalité, as well as issues such as soldier recruitment and motivation, the experience of battle and army life, home fronts, and the military revolution debate.  In addition to the course being a good introduction to the diversity of the field, many of the books/articles for the class are on the War & Society Graduate Reading List, which will allow students the opportunity to read these vital works and then discuss them in class–an excellent preparation for comprehensive exams.

The book list for this class is not complete at this time, although it will be ready with plenty of time for students to purchase copies on their own.  A few of the books we will read are:

*Morillo, Stephen and Michael F. Pavkovic.  What is Military History?  Cambridge (UK): Polity Press, 2006. 

*Hughes, Matthew and William Philpott, eds. Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2007.

Lynn, John.  Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Rogers, Clifford J.  The Military Revolution Debate: Readings on The Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.

*Royster, Charles.  A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.

*Ural (Bruce), Susannah.  The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865.  New York: New York University Press, 2006. 

Assignments will tentatively include a number of book reviews of assigned readings, class discussion, a medium-size historiographical paper, and a take-home final exam question which will prepare students for their comprehensive exams.

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HIS 726-H001    U.S. Historiography II

Professor Andrew Haley

Reg. Code 1996

Thursday 6:30-9:15

U.S. Historiography II is a reading and discussion intensive seminar focusing on major scholarly issues in modern American history.  Topics will include late nineteenth century voting patterns, Populism, labor, monopoly capitalism, big government, gender and sexuality, immigration, consumerism, the New Deal, the Civil Rights Movement, American imperialism, the Cold War, and the New Right.  This is not a survey of American history and students are expected to have a solid understanding of the events that shaped modern American history before entering the class.  Instead, the class examines historical approaches to critical turning points in American history since the Civil War.  Students will be asked to critically read, synthesize and evaluate the works of leading historians and to participate in rigorous debates of these works.

Beyond participation, students will be required to submit three-to-four (depending on enrollment) seven-page essays that raise questions about the week's readings.  The following books are required.  These will be supplemented with articles and book chapters that will be made available online.

  •  The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896

           Sven Beckert, Cambridge, 2003,

           9780521524100 

  • Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920

          Jackson Lears, Harper Perennial, 2003

          9780060747503 

  • The Populist Vision

          Charles Postel, Oxford University, 2007

          978019538410 

  • Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

          Linda Gordon, Harvard, New Edition, 2001

          9780674005358 

  • The Day Wall Street Exploded

          Beverly Gage, Oxford, Reprint Edition, 2010

          9780199759286 

  • Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture

          William Leach, Vintage, 1994

          9780679754114 

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940

          William E. Leuchtenburg, Harper Perennial, 2009

          978006183696

  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

          Thomas Sugrue, Princeton University Press, Revised, 2005

          9780691121864 

  • I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

          Charles Payne, University of California Press, Second Revised, 2007

          9780520251762 

  • Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-75

          Alice Echols, University of Minnesota Press, 2080

          9780816617876 

  • The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public.

          Sarah E Igo, Harvard University, 2008

          978-0674027428 

  • Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1995)

          George Chauncey, Basic Books, 1995

          9780465026210 

  • Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy

          Mary Dudziak, Princeton University Press, 2011

          9780691152431 

  • Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right

          Lisa McGirr, Princeton University Press, 2002

          9780691096117

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HIS 773-H001    Topics in African American History (Slavery & Resistance)

Professor Douglas Chambers

Reg. Code 10879

Tuesday 6:30-9:15

This graduate colloquium will provide both MA and doctoral students the opportunity to consider multiple historiographies on slavery and resistance in the Atlantic world. We will take a "world-historical" perspective (the Atlantic world) rather than a North American-centric one (antebellum South), and include resistance in West Africa against the slave trade, patterns of resistance in the Caribbean (in the French and Spanish as well as the British West Indies), and in Brazil (in both the 18th and 19th centuries). For North America we will take more of a thematic approach, and will consider the role of Africans (and their immediate descendants), of women, and of runaways, especially in the early national and antebellum eras. Basically we will read a book a week, supplemented by two or three significant articles. As with all 700-level colloquia, group discussion will be the key, and participants will develop their professional review-writing skills in their papers.

Required books:

  • Joseph C. Miller, The Problem of Slavery as History: A Global Approach (Yale University Press, 2009). ISBN: 978-0300113150 (pb).
  • Eugene D. Genovese, From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World (Louisiana State University Press, 1992). ISBN: 978-0807117682 (pb).
  • Sylviane A. Diouf, ed., Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies (Ohio University Press, 2003). ISBN: 978-0821415177 (pb).
  • Michael Craton, Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies (Cornell University Press, 2009). ISBN: 978-0801475283 (pb).
  • Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005). ISBN: 978-0674018266 (pb).
  • Manuel Barcia Paz, Seeds of Insurrection: Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848 (Louisiana State University Press, 2008). ISBN: 978-0807133651 (cloth).
  • James H. Sweet, Domingos Álavares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press, 2011). ISBN: 978-0807834497 (cloth).
  • João José Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). ISBN: 978-0801852503 (pb).
  • Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Louisiana State University Press, 1992). ISBN: 978-0807119990 (pb).
  • Jason Young, Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery (Louisiana State University Press, 2011). ISBN: 978-0807137192 (pb).
  • Stephanie M. H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). ISBN: 978-0807855348 (pb).
  • John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (Oxford University Press, 1999). ISBN: 978-0195084511 (pb).
  • Terry Alford, Prince Among Slaves, 30th anniversary ed. (Oxford University Press, 2007). ISBN: 978-0195320459 (pb).

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HIS 774-H001    Seminar in U.S. Diplomatic History: The “Cultural Turn”

Professor Heather Stur

Reg. Code 10880

Tuesday 3:50-6:25

In this graduate seminar, assigned readings will explore the ways in which historians of U.S. foreign relations have used the methodologies of cultural history to understand American engagement with the world. This historiographical emphasis makes this seminar useful to students pursuing the cultural history minor, as well as those interested in U.S. diplomatic history. Each week will feature two assigned common readings -- a book that is a cultural history of some aspect of U.S. foreign relations, and an article that demonstrates another approach to the same topic. In addition, each week one student will present on two supplemental books that demonstrate various approaches, cultural and otherwise, to the study of U.S. foreign relations.

Required Texts:

  • Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, Cultures of United States Imperialism, Duke University Press, 1994, ISBN-13: 978-0822314134
  • Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860, University of Oklahoma Press, 2000, ISBN-13: 978-0806132297
  • Amy Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture, Harvard University Press, 2005, ISBN-13: 978-0674017597
  • Ashli White, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, ISBN-13: 978-1421405810
  • Gerald Horne, Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation, NYU Press, 2012, ISBN-13: 978-0814773499
  • Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, Yale University Press, 2000, ISBN-13: 978-0300085549
  • Mary Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940, University of North Carolina Press, 2000, ISBN-13: 978-0807849385
  • Naoko Shibusawa, America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy, Harvard University Press, 2010, ISBN-13: 978-0674057470
  • Christian Appy, Cold War Constructions, University of Massachusetts Press, 2000, ISBN-13: 978-1558492189
  • Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945, University of California Press, 2005, ISBN-13: 978-0520244993
  • Andrew Rotter, Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964, Cornell University Press, 2000, ISBN-13: 978-0801484605
  • Van Gosse, Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America, & the Making of a New Left, Verso, 1996, ISBN-13: 978-0860916901
  • Penny von Eschen, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, Harvard University Press, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-0674022607
  • Ann Laura Stoler, Haunted By Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History, Duke University Press, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-0822337249

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IS 491-H001    International Studies Senior Capstone

Professor Brian LaPierre

Reg. Code 2074

Thursday 3:00-5:45

Course Description

International Studies 491 is the senior capstone seminar required of all International Studies majors and minors. This semester, we will be studying global poverty. Why are some states rich and others poor? What can be done to help states and societies trapped in seemingly insurmountable poverty? In order to address these questions, we will meet once a week, during which time we will discuss the readings as well as the broader issues at hand. All students are required to attend course meetings and to participate actively in class discussions. During the course of the semester, students will be asked to demonstrate their advanced research, public speaking, and analytical skills by writing a research paper and giving a series of classroom presentations.

        
Course Requirements

Research Paper

Two Presentations

Six Short Reaction Papers

Classroom participation

Course Texts

Abhijit Banerjee and Ester Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Jackson, TN: PublicAffairs, 2012), ISBN: 978-1610390934.

Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World’s  Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy (New York: Plume/Penguin Group, 2011), ISBN: 978-0452297562.

Charles Kenney, Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding – and How We Can Improve the World Even More (New York: Basic Books, 2012), ISBN: 978-0465031030.

Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can  be Done About It (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), ISBN: 978-0195373383.

Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), ISBN: 9780691148199.

Branko Milanovic, The Haves and Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality (New York: Basic Books, 2012), ISBN: 978-0465031412.

William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in         the Tropics (Boston, MA: MIT Press, 2002), ISBN: 978-0262550420.

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