![]() Now and then, we will attempt to read two books per week to show a contrast in styles or interpretations of a similar topic. Each week’s reading will include some recommended works that students will be encouraged to consult now or over time. This course is designed as a reading seminar to help prepare students for their ultimate oral exams, and hence the stress on historiography. To begin the course, we will read a few brief classic essays on the nature of history and the craft of writing history. ![]() In each week we will look for the tensions between narrative and analytical history, as well as the ways in which race and gender in particular have reshaped research and interpretive agendas in recent years. This graduate readings course will explore recent trends and historiography on several problems through most of the 19th century: sectionalism expansion slavery and the Old South northern society and reform movements women, gender and labor Civil War causation the Civil War as a community and individual experience the Civil War in the popular imagination the relationships between military-political and social-cultural history Reconstruction as a synthesis and historiographical battleground. Yale University | Spring semester, 201 | Wednesday, 1:30-3:20 pm, 81 Wall St. ![]() History 715 | Readings in Nineteenth Century America, 1815-1880s ![]()
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