Course Offerings (GSAS Bulletin)Courses are of several kinds: - Colloquia, based on common reading and discussion, in which students normally write interpretive papers, book critiques and review essays, and/or bibliographical essays.
- Seminars, in which, after an initial period of common readings, students work primarily on a research project. (In certain cases students may also write research papers in courses that are technically “colloquia.”)
- “Literature of the field” courses, designed to provide entry to a broad area of history, through reading and discussion of a number of major issues, problems, and controversies that represent traditional and contemporary approaches to the area as a whole. These courses introduce students to the kinds of materials and issues that are tested on the qualifying examination and provide a framework for preparing to take the qualifying exam. M.A. students may be admitted to these courses with the instructor’s permission.
- Methodology courses, intended to introduce students to a wide spectrum of issues, theories, and research strategies. Ph.D. students are required to take a methodology course in their first year.
- Independent study courses, devoted to reading, research, or some combination, set up between a student, or a small group of students, and a particular faculty member.
- Dissertation prospectus seminars. Ph.D. students are required to take this seminar in their third year.
Doctoral students may, with the approval of their advisers, enroll in up to four courses in other departments; M.A. students may enroll in up to two. Doctoral students may also, with approval, prepare their second fields outside the history department. Courses are also available at area universities through the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium.
The following is a selected list of course offerings. (Note: This list of courses is not exclusive, and courses are not necessarily taught every semester.)
AFRICAImperialism, Colonialism, and Decolonization in Africa Since 1875
G57.1558 4 points.
Analysis of the theory and practice of imperialism as it applied to Africa south of the Sahara; the theory and practice of colonial administration in British, French, and Belgian Africa; and the nature of the relationships between the independent African nations and their former colonial masters.
Literature of the Field: Africa
G57.1562 4 points.
This course introduces students to the major themes, scholarly approaches, and sources for African history.
Topics in African History
G57.1784 4 points.
Recent topics have included a research seminar in African history devoted to primary source research.
Islam in West Africa
G57.2007 4 points.
Examines Islam’s multiple developments and expressions across the expanse of West Africa, from the seventh century through the present.
African Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade
G57.2555 4 points.
Examines the institution of servitude and slavery in tropical Africa since classical antiquity. Studies master-servant relationships in selected precolonial African societies and the Atlantic slave trade and its impact on African political, social, and economic organization.
African Civilization: Perceptions and Realities
G57.2556 4 points.
AFRICAN DIASPORAConceptualizing the African Diaspora
G57.1785 4 points.
A colloquium concerned with the ways in which the African diaspora has been (and is being) theorized; that is, the conceptual and methodological frameworks within which the African diaspora has been located, and by which the imaginary has been approached. Specifically, the field is considered in connection with and through insights provided by studies of the subaltern and cultural, theories of feminism and hybridity and creolization, black radical internationalism, etc.
Literature of the Field: The African Diaspora
G57.1801 4 points.
A colloquium on the formation and development of the African diaspora, uncritically defined as the dispersal of people of African descent throughout the world, by way of examining the most recent and influential literature on the topic. Care is given to consider works addressing the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean, as well as the Americas.
The Making of the African Diaspora
G57.2622 4 points.
A seminar that emphasizes the historiography of what has come to be called the African diaspora, but in other eras was called something else, like pan-Africanism. Seminal works by Du Bois, Barnett Wells, Padmore, Casely Hayford, James, Blyden, Crummell, Cooper, etc., are examined.
ATLANTIC WORLD
Family, State, and Society in the Early Modern Atlantic
G57.1163 4 points.
This readings colloquium assays current thinking on the historical relationship between the family and the state while exploring the varied understandings of this relationship that colonial peoples of North America—Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans—brought to the process of nation building.
Literature of the Field: Atlantic History
G57.2001 4 points.
Introduces students to the major themes, scholarly approaches, and sources for Atlantic history.
Topics in Atlantic History (Research Seminar)
G57.2002 4 points.
In this seminar, students pursue independent research projects while meeting as a class to discuss research challenges as represented both by their own research and in common readings.
Race, Slavery, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
G57.2015 4 points.
Political Cultures of Empire (Research Seminar)
G57.2861 4 points.
Provides the opportunity for closely advised research and writing on student-designed projects related to the history of empires. The course builds on readings and discussion in the reading course Empires, States, and Political Imagination (G57.3390). While the reading course is not a prerequisite for this research seminar, students should have some demonstrated knowledge of the history of at least one imperial setting and be in a position to formulate a research topic at the beginning of the semester. By the end of the semester, each student will have produced a major research paper based on primary sources in the format of an article to be published in an academic journal.
Empires, States, and Political Imagination
G57.3390 4 points.
Focuses on the comparative study of empires from the Romans to the present and on the variety of ways in which empire-states have established and constrained claims to rights, belonging, and power. The study of empire expands our debates over rights, citizenship, economic regulation, and accountability without letting them fall into a seeming gap between the nation-state and the global.
Empire and Law in History
G57.3702 4 points.
Introduces graduate students to the comparative study of law in empire. Readings and discussions address such topics as the definition of imperial sovereignty, conflicts over jurisdiction and rights, the role of legal discourse in imperial politics, and the relation between imperial law and international law. Also explored are various methodologies for the study of empire and law, including discussion of the use of case records and other legal documents and writings to analyze imperial history. The chronological and geographic sweep of the course is intended to encourage comparative analysis of law in empire, with most attention paid to the European colonial world between 1500 and 1900.
Atlantic History Workshop
G57.3803 4 points.
This yearlong course overlaps with the Atlantic History Workshop colloquium, which meets regularly in the Department of History throughout the academic year. At the colloquium, participants discuss precirculated works-in-progress presented by visiting scholars or members of the colloquium. Students enrolled in this course attend every meeting of the colloquium and undertake additional activities assigned by the instructor.
EAST ASIA
Topics: East Asian History
G57.1731 4 points. Translation, Modernity, and History
G57.1760 4 points.
Material Culture in Chinese History
G57.1917 4 points.
Problems in the History of Early Modern China
G57.1919 4 points.
Literature of the Field: Problems in Japanese History II
G57.2001 4 points.
Asiatic Mode of Production
G57.2530 4 points.
Contemporary Discourse in Modern Chinese Intellectual History
G57.2572 4 points.
Print Media and Journalism in China
G57.2573 4 points.
MEDIEVAL EUROPE (FROM THE FALL OF ROME THROUGH THE 14TH CENTURY)Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages
G57.1115 4 points.
Women and Gender in the Middle Ages
G57.2109 4 points.
Examines women’s experience in and contributions to medieval Europe and developments in gender formulations during the Middle Ages.
Literature of the Field: Later Middle Ages
G57.2113 4 points.
Interpretation of medieval history in the 20th century. Historiography and sociology of knowledge.
Seminar in Medieval History
G57.3115 4 points.
EARLY MODERN EUROPE (1400-1789)Literature of the Field: Early Modern Europe I
G57.1150 Required of Ph.D. candidates in Modern Europe and Early Modern Europe. 4 points.
Surveys major literature and historiographical issues in the early modern field.
Trading Cultures in the Early Modern Atlantic, Ottoman, and Qing Empires
G57.1514 4 points.
Constructing International Order: Europe 1648-1919
G57.2163 4 points.
Offers a broad exploration of European interstate politics in this period and critical perspectives on the categories historians and social scientists have used to make sense of this domain. Rather than focusing on diplomatic history, as traditionally defined, the course explores the changing social and cultural structures that shaped international life.
The French Revolution
G57.2178 4 points.
Explores the origins and dynamics of the French Revolution of 1789, and the character of the Napoleonic settlement, with an emphasis on the international dimension of the revolution, political culture, and the historiography of the revolution.
Topics in Ottoman History
G57.2680 4 points.
The Ottoman 17th Century
G57.3503 4 points.
MODERN EUROPE (1750-PRESENT)Modern Greek History
G57.1124 4 points.
Examines how the major developments in modern European history from the Enlightenment and state formation to the post-1945 era were manifested in “peripheral” and “small” European nation-states by using Greece as a case study.
State Theory and the Historical State
G57.1144 4 points.
Approaches to the theory and practice of early modern and modern state formation. An early emphasis on political philosophy and critical theory yields to a focus on historical case studies from across Europe and the European colonies.
Europe Divided and United: East and West
G57.1156 4 points.
Considers both the political and intellectual history of Europe’s division between Eastern Europe and Western Europe, from the 18th century to the present. Course material includes travel writing, mental mapping, the Iron Curtain, and the history of the European Union.
European Intellectual History, 1918-1945
G57.1194 4 points.
Interplays the specific cultural-historical context of interwar Europe (in particular France in the late Third Republic and Weimar Germany, but also to a lesser extent Austria, Italy, and early Soviet Russia) with trends of philosophical, literary, and political writing of the period. Certain themes or figures guide the choice of texts, e.g., authority, subjectivity, violence, sovereignty.
Literature of the Field: Modern Europe
G57.1201 Required of Ph.D. candidates in Europe and Early Modern Europe. 4 points.
Survey of the major literature and historiographical issues in the modern European field.
Women in European Society and Politics
G57.1253 4 points.
Explores main themes of and principal approaches to European women’s history from the late 18th century through World War II. Readings focus on Britain, France, Germany, and Russia.
From Imperial to Soviet Russia
G57.1322 4 points.
A thematic approach to the problem of continuity in modern Russian history, with an emphasis on the European context of ideology, state formation, economy, and culture.
Culture, Empire and Power: The Irish and Indian Cases in the British Empire
G57.1414 4 points.
Topics in Women and Gender in French History
G57.1764 4 points.
Italian Colonialism
G57.1981 4 points.
An exploration of Italian colonialism from the late 19th century through the end of empire. Through readings of travel literature, films, and historical works, we address the meaning of colonialism within Italian history and culture, colonial racial policies and gender identities, and the legacies of colonialism in Italy and in its former colonies.
Italian Fascism
G57.1982 4 points.
Italy in World War II
G57.1985 4 points.
Italy from 1940 to 1945, with a focus on cultural and political responses to war and on how the war has been represented in memory. The course is thematic rather than chronological in nature; its sources include reportage, novels, archival documents, memoirs, and nonfiction and feature film. Ongoing themes include the meanings of resistance and collaboration; the problematics of testimony, witnessing, and memory; the impact of war on gender roles and identities; and the representation of violence.
The Habsburg Monarchy
G57.2163 4 points.
Addresses issues of culture, society, and politics, with particular attention to the historical problem of nationalism.
The French Revolution
G57.2178 4 points.
Study of the economy, society, ideology, and political culture in France during the revolutionary decade, with attention to historiographic debates concerning the intellectual and cultural origins of the Revolution; the first new regime, 1789-1791; revolutionary radicalization; the political culture of the Terror; gender and revolutionary politics; expansion and conquest; and the Revolution’s impact on the formation of modern political culture.
People, Politics, and Performance: Art and Ideas from Sergei Diaghilev to Edward Said
G57.2707 4 points.
History of the Left
G57.2716 4 points.
This colloquium reviews major developments in the left since the early 19th century, focusing on left visions, social movements, and political practices and the interaction of theory and practice. Readings focus on England, Germany, and Russia as well as the United States, India, Cuba, and China.
The Cold War and After
G57.2771 4 points.
This colloquium views the Cold War as global conflict and focuses on Western and Eastern Europe and the Third World as well as on the United States and the Soviet Union.
Eastern Europe
G57.3901 4 points.
Surveys the major historiographical issues of the region, focusing particularly on the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The principal issues include nationalism and national culture, communism and postcommunism, and war and ethnic cleansing.
Topics: Modern Mediterranean Region: Myth or Reality
G57.3902 4 points.
Literature of the Field: Colonial Latin America G57.1801 4 points.
Reviews the historical scholarship on colonial Latin America and the Caribbean. Issues include imperial foundations, conquest and early encounters, ethnogenisis and identity formation, patriarchy and race, the origins of capitalism, the state and Bourbon reforms, subaltern mobilization and independence.
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Literature of the Field: Modern Latin America, 1824-Present
G57.1802 4 points.
Introduction to historiography of postindependence Latin America. Focuses on topics such as the integration of Latin America into the world capitalist trade and investment system, evolution of rural and urban labor systems and movements, liberalism, nationalism, U.S.-Latin American relations, and revolutionary movements.
The Haitian Revolution and the Atlantic World
G57.1805 4 points.
Focuses on one of the most important and radical revolutions of the modern world. The course begins with classic and more recent perspectives on the revolution itself in an attempt to understand its origins, character, course, and legacies in Haiti from the period of 1789 through the immediate postindependence (1804) period. The second focus of the course is on the revolution’s repercussions and impact outside the borders of the French colony, throughout the Atlantic World. Third, the question of literary, cinematic, and academic representations of the revolution, its protagonists, and its legacies is addressed.
Slavery, Colonialism, and Revolution in the Caribbean
G57.1809 4 points.
Introduction to the major themes and debates of colonial Caribbean history. Begins with the reading of general works on the Caribbean: selections from major texts and classic essays by historians, anthropologists, and literary critics arguing the case for the study of the Caribbean as a unit of analysis. From there, goes on to consider the central themes of the region and the period: slavery, capitalism, and emancipation; colonialism, revolution, and imperialism; nationalism and race. Themes are studied from a variety of approaches and perspectives, from very local microhistorical studies to comparative ones to more sweeping global treatments. Throughout, an attempt is made to bridge the vertical lines that often separate the study of the different linguistic and imperial Caribbeans.
Topics in Latin American and Caribbean History
G57.2800 4 points.
Historiographic and analytic approaches to variable topics. Recent colloquia have included Historical Consciousness in Latin America; Age of Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean; Race, Gender, and Nation; U.S.-Latin American Relations; Historical Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in Latin America; Independence and Nationalism in the 19th Century. May also focus on the history of a particular country or subregion, such as modern Brazil, Central America, or the Caribbean.
Research Seminar: Latin America and the Caribbean
G57.2801 4 points.
Methodology research seminar in which students learn the basic techniques of isolating and conceptualizing a topic, develop their research skills in handling primary and secondary sources available in the New York area, and complete a coherent, pertinent research paper of about 25 pages, with appropriate documentation and bibliography. This course is sometimes organized around research themes. Recent themes include slavery in the Americas and U.S.-Latin American relations.
METHODS, TRANSNATIONAL, COMPARATIVE
Industrialization and the Working Class in Comparative Perspective Since 1870
G57.1022 4 points.
Study of the transition from a maturing to a late society in Europe and the United States. Examines economic pressures, technological developments, entrepreneurial policies, ethnic and national subcultures, and emergence of urban and state institutions as they relate to the social history of the working class, the labor movement, and class consciousness.
Environmental History
G57.1050 4 points.
Analyzes monographs in the field, drawn from all geographical areas, dealing with major theoretical issues.
Historians and New Media
G57.1023 4 points.
Cultural History in Perspective
G57.1145 4 points.
Global Encounters: 1300-1800
G57.1730 4 points.
The general aim of this course is to study global interactions between various societies from 1300 to 1800, a period during which peoples from all continents encountered one another in conditions of both cooperation and collision. Topics include comparative notions of empire and colonial practices; the ideas and beliefs each society held about themselves and “others” and the things and conventions that gave them such identities: language, color, ethnicity, kinship, religion, and so on. Throughout the course, students also study the structure of each society’s thought; the categories of analysis used in encounters with other societies; and how interactions and the language used to characterize others changed over time. Other topics include trade between various societies; the creation of colonial societies; slavery: evolution, concepts, and its influence in the creation of racial theories; diaspora in history and its influence in the various societies affected by migratory movements.
Transnational Construction of Race
G57.2008 4 points.
Explores the social, cultural, and political meanings and consequences of racial constructions, with attention to such topics as law, sex, gender, science, and empire. Interrogates North American racial systems in transnational contexts.
The Ways of Social History in the 20th Century: Forms of Historiographical Change
G57.2020 4 points.
Early Modern European Imperialism: Discourses, Institutions, Experiences
G57.2186 4 points.
This one-semester seminar on early modern European imperialism is designed to give students interested in the history of early modern Europe, the Atlantic world, the history of Africa, and colonial Latin America a general understanding of the early modern ideologies and institutions that enabled Europe to colonize parts of Africa and the Americas. Throughout the semester, students examine several important topics: medieval precedents of early modern imperialism; theories of empire and monarchy; ideologies of conquest and colonization; models of conquest and colonial exploitation; and the relevance of race and slavery in understanding European influence in Africa and the Americas.
Women, Gender, and Politics in the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions
G57.2605 4 points.
Examines 18th-century interrelated debates about the nature of citizenship and the civitas in revolutionary America, France, and Haiti.
Modern City Culture
G57.2754 4 points.
Studies the culture of New York City in comparative perspective, particularly emphasizing the relation of political and economic modernization to the culture of modernity and artistic movements of modernism.
Theories of Nationalism
G57.3500 4 points.
Approaches to Historical Research and Writing
G57.3603 4 points.
MIDDLE EAST
Islamic Middle East, 1200-1800
G57.1641 4 points.
Literature of the Field: Modern Middle Eastern History
G57.1643 4 points.
SOUTH ASIA
Research in Globalization
G57.2122 4 points.
Theories of Nationalism
G57.3500 4 points.
UNITED STATES (CONTACT TO PRESENT)
Lower East Side American Jewish Memory
G57.1271 4 points.
Explores the disjunction between the history of arguably the most important Jewish neighborhood in America and the subsequent memory culture that developed after its demise.
Topics in American Jewish History
G57.1280 4 points.
Over the course of recent years, seminars under the “Topics” rubric have focused on the history of American Judaism, the history of Jewish women in America, and post-World War II American Jewry.
Jewish Women in America and Europe: Historical Problems
G57.1281 4 points.
This comparative course looks at the historical experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the United States, focusing on work, education, family, and communal activism, among other topics.
Irish and Irish American Studies: Irish and Jewish Migration to America
G57.1419 4 points.
This M.A.-level course looks at the histories of these two immigrant groups in a comparative context, exploring the causes and nature of the migrations; patterns of settlement, work, family, and popular culture; and the receptions these groups received in America.
Literature of the Field: United States
G57.1600 Required of Ph.D. candidates making this their major field. 4 points.
Twentieth-Century course surveys major literature and historiographical issues in the American field in the 20th century. Colonial Era course surveys major literature and historiographical issues in the American field in the colonial era.
The American Revolution and Constitution
G57.1603 4 points.
Studies the tension between England and the American colonies in a political and social context. Other topics include revolutionary ideology, constitutional conflict, the War of Independence, the framing of new state government, and the debate over the federal Constitution.
Literature of the Field: 19th-Century United States
G57.1610 Required of all Ph.D. candidates making this their major field. 4 points.
Surveys the major literature and historiographical issues in the American field in the 19th century.
Transnational Approaches to American History
G57.1739 4 points.
Topics in American Women’s History
G57.1762 4 points.
History of American Education
G57.1781 4 points.
Examines the major themes, developments, and dilemmas of educational history in the United States. How have historians defined and explored American education? What are the major achievements and weaknesses of the field?
Afro-American History
G57.1782 4 points.
Broad exposure to African American history. Begins with a historiographical introduction, describing the growth and development of the field, and moves to a major theme and period treatment ranging from ancient Africa to the civil rights movement. Provides an understanding of the field and a foundation for specialized course work and research.
African American Intellectual History from the Victorians to the Present
G57.1804 4 points.
Transnational Constructions of Race
G57.2008 4 points.
Explores the social, cultural, and political meanings and consequences of racial constructions, with attention to such topics as law, sex, gender, science, and empire. Interrogates North American racial systems in transnational contexts.
Master’s Seminar: Historical Research Methods
G57.2022 4 points.
Introduction to the theoretical and methodological components involved in the research process. Considers historiographical issues; develops an understanding of the archival and library environments, focusing on searching strategies and the use of automated techniques; and emphasizes framing research questions. Students complete a research paper with appropriate documentation and bibliography in their area of interest.
19th-Century Intellectual and Cultural History
G57.2025 4 points.
Transition from Slavery to Freedom in the United States
G57.2553 4 points.
Race, Civil War, and Reconstruction
G57.2607 4 points.
Studies the social, political, and cultural history of the Civil War era and its legacies, with particular attention to race.
The Cold War, 1945-1989
G57.2779 4 points.
Examination of the Cold War from World War II to the fall of the Soviet empire in 1989.
Topics in Intellectual and Cultural History
G57.3611 4 points.
HISTORY OF WOMEN AND GENDER
Black Women’s Political Activism
G57.1256 4 points.
Examines black women’s conceptions of, and presence in, the public or political realm from the antebellum era through the 1960s. Investigates the ways in which black women defined the public and political.
Topics in Women and Gender in French History
G57.1764 4 points.
Colloquium in Women’s History: Race and Reproduction
G57.2600 4 points.
Gender and Imperialism
G57.3901 4 points.
Examines how gender is implicated in imperialism and postcolonial societies, including Africa, India, the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
ARCHIVES AND PUBLIC HISTORY
Introduction to Archives
G57.1010 4 points.
Introduction to the theoretical and methodological issues involving archives, historical documentation, and historical resources. Focuses on the history of records and record keeping, development of archival theory, appraisal, arrangement and description, reference, legal and ethical issues, and current trends in the profession.
Seminar in Historical Editing
G57.1012 4 points.
Introduces students to the theories, practices, and problems involved in editing and publishing historical documentary editions. Students develop their own documentary editions complete with prefatory material, transcriptions, annotations, and calendars. Focuses especially on project leadership and includes an electronic edition component.
History in the New Media
G57.1023 4 points.
Focuses on the ideas, techniques, and complexities of creating digital history texts and Web sites. Introduction to the digitization process, with an emphasis on standards and best practices for creating digital projects in an archival or public history setting.
Introduction to Public History
G57.1750 4 points.
Reviews the history of public history from the early 20th century through the present, focusing on historians’ relationships, dialogues, and collaborations with public audiences. Considers issues involving memory, identity, heritage, commemoration, historic preservation, history museums, oral history, film, and digital history.
Local and Community History
G57.1752 4 points.
Explores changing definitions of “local” and “community” in light of contemporary historical interpretations. Focuses especially on differing historical methodologies and their impact on collecting and public history projects, considering such topics as unconventional evidence, material culture, museum interpretation, historical sites, and historical societies.
Media and History
G57.1755 4 points.
Reviews efforts at dramatization and documentaries for radio, television, film, and print media. Considers the historical implications of media production and allows students to conceptualize projects and research in a variety of media formats.
Internship Seminar
G57.2011 4 points.
Seminar setting in which students consider a variety of issues and topics relating to their fieldwork sites and internship venues. Topics include public policy, historic site interpretation, digital humanities, current archival and museological theory, and leadership in cultural institutions. Students complete a 120-hour internship/ practicum at a cooperating archives or public history site, arranged through the program director.
Oral History
G57.2012 4 points.
Fieldwork course that engages the historiographical, theoretical, and methodological issues involving oral history work. Includes a research and design component, as well as a project implementation module in which students conceive, interview, process, and present oral histories.
Introduction to Preservation and Reformatting
G57.2013 4 points.
Overview of principles and practices of archival preservation. Examines the physical composition of archival materials in all formats, the causal agents that contribute to archival deterioration, the application of appropriate preservation practices and conservation methods, and various reformatting and rehousing techniques.
Institutional Archives
G57.2016 4 points.
Traces the rise of modern bureaucratic organizations and their relationship to the documentary record. Examines the history of recordkeeping, the records and information needs of businesses, nonprofits, and governments, records management theory and practice, and current trends in administering electronic records programs.
Historian and the Visual Record
G57.2021 4 points.
Analyzes visual media, including photographs, prints, magazine illustrations, cartoons, motion pictures, and video. Pays special attention to the use of these media as historical sources. Includes a curatorial component that explores the ways in which archivists and public historians engage these records.
Research Seminar
G57.2023 4 points.
Capstone seminar in which students create final projects in the program with a substantial research and writing component. Projects may take the form of historical theses, exhibition designs, historical editing projects, Web-based resources, or historic site interpretations. Class meetings allow students to focus on and discuss research issues.
Advanced Archival Description
G57.2031 4 points.
Provides an understanding of archival descriptive standards and practices. Focuses on the development and use of bibliographic standards to create and exchange data concerning archival records. Particular emphases include the MARC format; the development, implementation, and evaluation of Encoded Archival Description and Encoded Archival Context; content management systems; digital encoding standards; and digital library development.
Creating Digital History
G57.2033 4 points.
Focuses on the skills that students need in order to build or contribute to history websites, digital archives, and online exhibits. Students learn such tools as HTML, CSS, WordPress, Omeka, and MIT’s Simile and Timeline, and also use such Web 2.0 tools as CiteULike, del.icio.us, Twitter, and Wikipedia. Discussions focus on such digital history issues as how to convey a context for online historical documents.
RESEARCH AND READING
Reading in History
G57.3011 1-4 points per term.
Research in History
G57.3021, 3022 1-4 points per term.
Open to students engaged in dissertation research by special permission of a departmental adviser.
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