HIST 289 WEEK 4 Assignment Instructions
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Week 4
Objectivity and Bias & The New Cultural Histories
This is a full reading week. We return to deepen the inquiries that we
began in Week 1 while building on the work we did in Week 3. Beard
takes us once again into ontological questions as he discusses divisions
in the field. These questions address the goals of history, and exactly
what history is supposed to be. His work is part of an ongoing
conversation that continues to this day about the nature of history. It is
a conversation that is directly related to the many approaches to
history that have developed over the course of the twentieth century.
White's view is largely that historians have an obligation to educate the
public about the idealized pasts to which they refer in supporting their
views of how the world or their country or their community should be
today.
The balance of the readings address these approaches as they continue
to provide evidence to challenge simplistic views of the past. Purvis
takes a gendered approach while Frost uses the lens of race to
challenge dominant narratives, demonstrating that history is an
argument.
Clendinnen provides a case study for using the same evidence
employed in dominant narratives of the Spanish Conquest to construct
a history of women in the same period. (See the Week 4 Readings for
Clendinnen.) Suny explores some of the challenges and pitfalls of what
he calls the "cultural turn," which comprises the various methods we
have discussed so far this semester (social, gender, economic, oral,
subaltern history, etc.).
Estimated Time
Over the next week, you should spend approximately 12-15 hours to
fully engage in the materials and complete all activities.
Please note this
is an estimate
. The actual time each week will vary depending on your
circumstances.
Week 4 Checklist
There are no assignments this week beyond the Discussions. In this
week’s Discussions, we revisit in Discussion 1 our conversations on bias
and whether or not history can be accurately called a science. In
Discussion 2, we see again how each historical approach or
interpretation is a reaction to previous interpretations as we examine
the New Social and New Cultural Histories.
As always, our Discussions aim to prepare you for the Final Assessment
Paper and to use these approaches in your future research.
Complete the following by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, the last day of the
academic week.
•
Read
the Week 4 Learning Resources.
•
Participate
in Week 4 Discussion 1.
•
Participate
in Week 4 Discussion 2.
•
Download
Readings That You Have Found Useful in This Course. If
you are taking HIST 309 & 495, you will want to use these
readings in your Final Research Paper.
Your
Initial Post
should be up by the fourth day of the academic
week
at 11:59 p.m.
Your
Peer Responses
should be posted by the last day of the academic
week,
at 11:59 p.m.
Weekly Learning Objectives
•
Compare and contrast history as a science and history as an art.
•
Differentiate between earlier approaches and new approaches to
history.
•
Examine the new social and new cultural histories.
Across UMGC, course materials are interchangeably referred to as Readings,
Required Readings, and Learning Resources.
o
Beard, "That Noble Dream"
o
White, "The Burden of History"
o
What is Ethnohistory?
o
Suny, "Back and Beyond: Reversing the Cultural Turn?"
o
Clendinnen, "Yucatec Maya Women and the Spanish Conquest:
Role and Ritual in Historical Reconstruction"
o
Purvis, "The Politics of History Writing: A Reply to Keith Flett"
o
Frost, "Using 'Master Narratives' to Teach History: The Case of the
Civil Rights Movement"
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