Deborah A. Wold
(Deb)
Public Historian
Museum Professional. Material Culture Steward. Historic Foodways Academic.
Historiography
Historian's Boot Camp:
The study of how historians write about history
Learning Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of historiography and its changes over time
2. Lead scholarly discussions and make oral presentations
3. Formulate a historical argument in Standard English
Assignments consisted of five Papers
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Interview with a historian
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Two Reaction Papers
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A Review of Reviews
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Historiography Final Paper
Favorite books prior to grad school.
Course Assignments
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
Donna Zuckerberg
They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the
Civil War
DeAnne Blanton
The History of
White People
Nell Irvin Painter
Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica,
1788-1838
Colleen Vasconcellos
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
Monica M. White
Negro Buildings: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums
Mabel O. Wilson
A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany
Monica Black
The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex:
The History of the Multibillion Dollar Institution
Lila Corwin Berman
An Infinite History:
The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
Emma Rothschild
The Taste of Ashes:
The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Marci Shore
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Mary Beard
Two non-book related papers
In the beginning of the semester we were assigned a historian to interview and write a paper.
At the end of the semester, we were assigned to write a 20 page historiography paper on a topic of our choosing.
Favorite read of the class. I am biased, however, as I have a fascination with Jamaica due to my obsession with pirate history.
Benefit
What I discovered while taking the class.