The Craft of History: Approaches, Themes, Methods

History is a discipline rooted in ancient intellectual traditions and responsive to scholarly innovations in method and approach. This course will expose students to a wide range of methods, themes and approaches in current historical research practice (which may include biographical, cultural, environmental, gender, indigenous, international, intellectual, legal, military, oral, political, popular, post-colonial, public, social, and technological history) and address questions of method and theory. It will focus, as well, on relevant interdisciplinary approaches, such as historical memory studies and ethnohistory. Central to all historical practice is the archive. Through critical readings and workshops, the course will provide opportunities for students to engage with the question of how to construct an archive for their own research projects.