ISSUES IN PUBLIC HISTORY
56:512:531:01
TH 2:00 PM – 4:55 PM
Professor Goodman
Public history is history made with and for the public. In this course, we will explore how public historians can build bridges between academic historians, historical institutions, and communities. We will pay careful attention to the challenges and opportunities that come with working on contested histories in collaborative projects for different audiences. This work requires us to hone our skills as historians, as communicators, as creative thinkers, and as colleagues working together. Together, we will develop a grounding in the practice of public history and its key modes, particularly public-facing history writing and exhibitions.
READINGS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY 1877 TO PRESENT
56:512:542:01
W 6:00 PM – 8:50 PM
Professor Boyd
This course provides a survey of the primary themes and issues in African American history
since 1877.
THE CRAFT OF HISTORY
56:512:550:01
M 6:00 PM – 8:50 PM
Professor Marker
The Craft of History is unique in the Master’s program at Rutgers-Camden. Rather than a readings or research course in a particular area of history, this course is designed to familiarize students with major problems, questions, and methods that shape the discipline of history as a whole. In the first part of the course, we will explore how scholars have historicized the study of history itself. We’ll then consider a wide variety of competing methodological approaches to the study of the past and work
through the major “historiographical turns” of the past few decades. The course will conclude with an examination of a few key historical debates, the boundaries between scholarship and fraud, and the politics of history-writing today.
READINGS IN MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM
56:512:551:40
T 6:00 PM – 8:50 PM
Professor Thomas
In the first lines of the book that would become one of the most celebrated histories of European immigrants in the U.S., The Uprooted (1951), historian Oscar Handlin wrote, “Once I thought to write a history of immigrants in America. Then I discovered that immigrants were American history.” For the next four decades, most of the historical scholarship on immigration in the U.S. responded in some way to Handlin’s framing of the field, and most of those studies continued to focus on European immigrants. By the early 1990s, however, the field of immigration history was changing dramatically. New work focused on the experience of those who emigrated to the U.S. from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, and younger scholars pursued questions about race, class, and transnational identity that pushed the analysis in the field in more complex and nuanced directions.
In this course, we will survey the scholarship on immigration and transnationalism in the 20th century United States that has emerged over the last several decades. Our readings will focus on the history of a variety of immigrant groups and diasporas, some with a comparative component, and we will also explore the experience of refugees and deportees and the policies and politics that defined their experience across the 20th century and up to the present.
READINGS EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
56:512:556:40
TH 6:00 pm – 8:50 pm
Professor Shankman
This course provides an extensive introduction to the primary political, religious, legal, constitutional, cultural, social, and economic developments of England/Britain from the sixteenth century through the mid-eighteenth century. Principal issues addressed are, competing political and constitutional theories of government, the idea of the rule of law, the emergence of a modern fiscal state, and the close connections between those things and religious conflicts.
RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM IN EARLY MODERN WORLD
56:512:560:01
T 2:00 PM – 4:55 PM
Professor Mokhberi
This course is an intensive research seminar for graduate students focusing on the early modern world, including Europe, North America, and global connections. Students must have completed at least one of the following courses: Readings in Early Modern Europe, Readings in Global History I, England in the Age of Shakespeare (graduate student version), Readings in Colonial North America, Readings in Revolutionary Era North America, or another approved Readings course in order to enroll. This is an intensive collaborative research seminar designed to help students produce original work.
INTERNSHIP IN PUBLIC HISTORY
56:512:699:01
M 2:00 PM – 4:55 PM
Professor Woloson
Supervised work experience in a public history institution, involving hands-on projects over one
semester or a summer.