Lecture Notes

Each week, students submit a one page essay with their reactions to the reading. Prof. Perdue produces a similar reaction paper each week as well, which are listed below as Comment Papers.


LEC # TOPICS COMMENT PAPERS
1 Introduction (PDF)
2 The Annales School: Origins and Establishment (PDF)
3 Labor History; Class as a Historical Category (PDF)
4 Race, Culture, and War (PDF)
5 Women's History; Gender and Textiles (PDF)
6 Global History: Economic and Environmental (PDF)
7 Historical Demography (PDF)
8 The New Cultural History[1]: Microhistory (PDF)
9 Environmental History
10 The New Cultural History [2]: Post-modern and Post-structural Approaches to the Representation of Space (PDF)
11 New Military History, in Print and on Film (PDF)
12 Historical Memory and History Wars (PDF)
13 History and Fiction (PDF)
14 Frontiers in History
15 Where are Historians Going? The Future of the History Profession (PDF)