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A Feeling for Books.pdf | Radway front matter, introduction | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
A Library of Books for Aspiring Professional - Notes.pdf | Radway notes | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
A Library of Books for Aspiring Professional.pdf | Radway Chapter 9 | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Alchon. A Pest in the Land.pdf | Reading: Alchon. front matter and chapter 4 | Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. | |
American Indians and American Studies.pdf | Meland et al, The Bases Are Loaded | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Anzaldua Borderlands blog summary review.doc | Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera blog summary review | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Bennet. The Spririt of 76.pdf | Reading: Bennett. The Spirit of 76. Diplomatic History | Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. | |
Book Presentation and Review Assignment.doc | Book presentation and review assignment | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Borderlands.pdf | Anzaldua front matter, introduction | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Bteddini_Writing+Security_review_2.pdf | Lida Bteddini: Writing security - review of David Campbell, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998). | PhDr. Mgr. Kryštof Přemysl Kozák, Ph.D. | |
Campbell_Writing security.pdf | David Campbell, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998). | PhDr. Mgr. Kryštof Přemysl Kozák, Ph.D. | |
Counterculture Indians and the New Age - Notes.pdf | Deloria notes | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Counterculture Indians and the New Age.pdf | Deloria Counterculture Indians and the New Age | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Crossing Borders.pdf | Anzaldua preface, How to Tame a Wild Tongue | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Denning front matter, introduction.pdf | Denning front matter, introduction | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Denning Chapter 9 The Special American Conditions.pdf | Denning Chapter 9 The Special American Conditions.pdf | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Denning Chapter 9 end notes.pdf | Denning Chapter 9 end notes | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Dudziak. Cold War Civil Rights. Chapter 2 notes.pdf | Reading: Dudziak. Cold War Civil Rights. Chapter 2 notes | Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. | |
Dudziak. Cold War Civil Rights. Chapter 2.pdf | Reading: Dudziak. Cold War Civil Rights. Chapter 2 | Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. | |
Dudziak, front matter, preface, introduction.pdf | Dudziak front matter, preface, introduction | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Dudziak Chapter 5 end notes.pdf | Dudziak Chapter 5 end notes | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Dudziak Chapter 5 Losing Control in Camelot.pdf | Dudziak Chapter 5 Losing Control in Camelot | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Enstad. Ladies of Labor Girls of Adventure.pdf | Reading: Enstad. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure | Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. | |
Ethnography- An Introduction to Definition and Method.pdf | 03.11.15 Reading | Dejan Kralj, Dr. | |
Farrell Some Elementary Questions for an American Cultural Studies.pdf | Farrell, Some Elementary Questions for an American Cultural Studies. Response to Mechling and Kilgore. | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Fast Reading Strategies.doc | Fast Reading Strategies | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Fisher Fishkin, The Transnational Turn in American Studies.pdf | Fisher Fishkin, The Transnational Turn in American Studies | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Geertz, Thick Description.pdf | 03.11.15 Reading | Dejan Kralj, Dr. | |
Kaplan The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture.pdf | Kaplan, The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Kaplan Where is Guantanamo.pdf | Kaplan, Where is Guantánamo? | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Lynd and Lynd, Middletown Faces Both Ways.pdf | Lynd and Lynd, Middletown Faces Both Ways | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Lynd and Lynd, Middletown theoretical chapters.pdf | Lynd and Lynd, theoretical note in Middletown: A Study of Modern American Culture | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Mappen. front matter. intro. pp 10-35.pdf | Reading: Mappen. front matter, introduction, pages 10 - 35 | Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. | |
Mappen. pp 51-82 and 115-137.pdf | Reading: Mappen. pages 51 - 82 and 115 - 137 | Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. | |
Matthiessen,_From_the_Heart__.PDF | Matthiessen, From the Heart of Europe | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
May. Homeward Bound.pdf | Reading: May. front matter, introduction and chapter 1 | Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. | |
mayer-part1.PDF | Frederick A Mayer: Interpreting NAFTA, Columbia University Press, 2004 (excerpt) | PhDr. Mgr. Kryštof Přemysl Kozák, Ph.D. | |
McAlister Contents.pdf | McAlister Contents | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
McAlister Chapter 5 notes.pdf | McAlister Chapter 5 notes | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
McAlister Chapter5.pdf | McAlister Chapter 5 | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
McAlister Introduction notes.pdf | McAlister Introduction notes | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
McAlister Introduction.pdf | McAlister introduction | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
McAlister preface.pdf | McAlister preface | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Mechling Some (New) Elementary Axioms for an American Cultural Studies.pdf | Mechling, Some (New) Elementary Axioms for an American Cultural Studies | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Pajares synopsis of Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.doc | Pajares, synopsis of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Pells, American Studies in Europe.pdf | Pells, American Studies in Europe | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Playing Indian.pdf | Deloria front matter, introduction | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Race against Empire.pdf | Von Eschen front matter, preface, introduction | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Sanchez, Adventures in Post_Nationalist_American_Studies.pdf | Sanchez, Adventures in Post-Nationalist-American Studies.pdf | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Santa Ana - Like An Animal I Was Treated.pdf | Otto Santa Ana: ‘Like an animal I was treated’: anti-immigrant metaphor in US public discourse. Discourse and Society, 1999 | PhDr. Mgr. Kryštof Přemysl Kozák, Ph.D. | |
Texts on Immigration - MCDC and Trump.pdf | Minutemen Civil Defense Corps Project and Trump (excerpts) | PhDr. Mgr. Kryštof Přemysl Kozák, Ph.D. | |
The Diaspora Moment - Notes.pdf | Von Eschen notes | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
The Diaspora Moment.pdf | Von Eschen The Diaspora Moment | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
the-anthropology-of-cities-imagining-and-theorizing-the-city.pdf | 10.11.15 Reading | Dejan Kralj, Dr. | |
Theory and Method final paper document.doc | Theory & Method final paper topics and instructions | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Theory and Methods syllabus winter 2016.docx | syllabus | Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. | |
Trachtenberg front matter, intro, Chapters 1-2.pdf | Trachtenberg front matter, intro, Chapters 1-2 | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Trachtenberg photo insert, Chapters 8-9, epilogue.pdf | Trachtenberg photo insert, Chapters 8-9, epilogue | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History.doc | Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Ulrich front matter, introduction.pdf | Ulrich front matter, introduction | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Ulrich Chapter 2 end notes.pdf | Ulrich Chapter 2 end notes | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Ulrich Chapter 2 September 1788.pdf | Ulrich Chapter 2 September 1788 | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Urban_ethnography_-_approaches__perspectives__and_challenges.pdf | 03.11.15 Reading | Dejan Kralj, Dr. | |
Van Dijk - What is CDA (Handbook of Discourse Analysis).pdf | Teun A. Van Dijk, Critical Discourse Analysis (excerpt) | PhDr. Mgr. Kryštof Přemysl Kozák, Ph.D. | |
Whiteturnerandbuffalobill.pdf | White, Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
Wise, Some Elementary Axioms for an American Culture Studies.pdf | Wise, Some Elementary Axioms for an American Culture Studies | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
wise_paradigm_dramas_aq_1979.pdf | Gene Wise, ‘Paradigm Dramas’ in American Studies | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. | |
2014 Theory and Method in American Studies syllabus.doc | 2014 course syllabus | Assistant Professor Gyorgy Toth, PhD. |
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Last update: Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. (30.09.2016)
The central purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theoretical approaches and methods that have informed and shaped the writing of history. While we will concentrate on the researching and writing of history, many of the approaches we will discuss are applicable to other fields of scholarly pursuit. When possible, our readings will concentrate on one event – the Salem witch trials of 1692, to better demonstrate the different approaches and methods that scholars have used to explain historical events as well as contemporary issues. These will be supplemented by a selection of other readings that will further help to demonstrate the different approaches, methods, and schools discussed and cover those approaches not applicable to the Salem events. Our class meetings will consist of discussions of the assigned materials and related topics and a short presentation of background information on each school of thought. With the exception of our first and last classes, each week two students will be in charge of the class discussion and material presentation. I will provide the background information for each historiography school. |
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Last update: Dr. phil. Lucie Kýrová, M.A. (30.09.2016)
Theory and Methods (JMM 271 / JMM 654) Mondays, 12:30 – 13:50, room # J3017
Lucie Kýrová Office room 3080 Office hours: Mondays, 15:00 – 16:00 Tuesdays, 11:00 – 12:00 and by appointment via email.
The central purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theoretical approaches and methods that have informed and shaped the writing of history. While we will concentrate on the researching and writing of history, many of the approaches we will discuss are applicable to other fields of scholarly pursuit. When possible, our readings will concentrate on one event – the Salem witch trials of 1692, to better demonstrate the different approaches and methods that scholars have used to explain historical events as well as contemporary issues. These will be supplemented by a selection of other readings that will further help to demonstrate the different approaches, methods, and schools discussed and cover those approaches not applicable to the Salem events.
Assignments Discussions Our class meetings will consist of discussions of the assigned materials and related topics and a short presentation of background information to each school of thought. With the exception of our first and last classes, each week two students will be in charge of the class discussion and material presentation. I will provide the background information for each historiography school.
Historiography paper You will write a historiography paper on a topic of your choice, not to exceed 8 double-spaced pages. You can use your MA Thesis topic, if you want to. In this exercise, you will critically evaluate the existing literature on your topic, its merits and shortcomings. You will do this assignment in stages – from a selection of a topic and preliminary bibliography, through a book review of one of your sources, a draft of the lit review to be critiqued by a colleague in the class, to the final paper. Detailed instructions and due dates will be posted on SIS.
Grading Class attendance and participation in discussions = 10% Leading a discussion = 20% Book review = 20% Final paper = 50%
Readings Mappen, Marc. Witches and Historians: Interpretations of Salem. 2nd edition. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 1996.
Assigned chapters from Mappen and other books or articles not available electronically through the Jinonice library will be posted on SIS.
Schedule Week 1 Primary Sources and The Empiricists Mappen, “The Verdict of Contemporaries,” pp. 20 - 35 Cotton Mather, “Satan’s Attack on New England” Robert Calef, “An Attack on the Trials” John Hale, “The Lessons of Salem”
Analyze the primary sources – What can you learn about the events from these sources? What can you learn about their authors? About the time, place and society they were created in? What are these sources? Who wrote them? When were they created? Where were they created? And why (for what purpose) were they created?
Week 2 Social History – Class and Marxist Historians Stone, Lawrence, “A New Interpretation of Witchcraft,” in Mappen, pp. 10 – 19. Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum, “A Clash of Two Worlds,” in Mappen, pp. 115 –117. Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Redicker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. Chapter 5, “Hydrarchy: Sailors, Pirates and the Maritime State,” pp. 151 – 181. Electronic version available through Jinonice library. Email me your choice of topic and preliminary bibliography by October 14th, 8 pm.
Week 3 Social History – Quantitative History (and Economic History) Carr, Lois Green. “Emigration and the Standard of Living: The Seventeenth Century Chesapeake.” The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52, No. 2 (June 1992), pp. 271 – 291. Demos, John. “Families in Colonial Bristol, Rhode Island: An Exercise in Historical Demography.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1 (January 1968), pp. 40 – 57.
Week 4 Women and Gender History Karlsen, Carol F. “Witches as Sexual Threat.” In Mappen, pp. 118 – 126. May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1999. Chapter 1, “Containment at Home: Cold War, Warm Hearth,” pp. 10 – 29.
Week 5 American Religion Godbeer, Richard. “Diabolical Witchcraft and Maleficent Witchcraft.” In Mappen, pp. 127 – 137. Harley, David. “Explaining Salem: Calvinist Psychology and the Diagnoses of Possession.” The American Historical Review. Vol. 101, No. 2 (April 1996), 307 – 330. Dailey, Jane. “Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown.” Journal of American History. Vol. 91 (June 2004), 119 – 144.
Week 6 Race, Ethnohistory, and Native American History Tucker, Veta Smith. “Purloined Identity: The Racial Metamorphosis of Tituba of Salem Village.” Journal of Black Studies. Vol. 30, No. 4 (March 2000), 624 – 634. Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Chatper 1, “Imagining a Distant New World,” pp. 11 – 40. Book review due in class. Bring an extra copy for a classmate to comment on it (by next class)
Week 7 African-American History Miles, Tiya. Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2005. Chapter 3, “Motherhood,” 44 – 63. Available electronically through the Jinonice library. Harris, LaShawn. “Playing the Numbers: Madame Stephanie St. Clair and African American Policy Culture in Harlem.” Black Women, Gender + Families, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2008), 53 – 76. Payne, Charles. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: the Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Strugggle. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. Chapter 2, “Testing the Limits: Black Activism in Postwar Mississippi,” 29 – 66. Available electronically thought the Jinonice library. ** Read the article and one of the book chapters. Those presenting have to read everything. Bring your comments on your classmate’s book review back for them.
Week 8 Biology and Environmental Studies Caporael, Linnda R. “A Biologist Diagnoses Disease.” In Mappen, 63 – 71 Spanos, Nicholas P. and Jack Gottlieb. “The Disease Diagnosis Disputed.” In Mappen, 72 – 82. Alchon, Suzanne Austin. A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Chapter 4, pp. 83 – 108.
Week 9 Psychohistory and Psychoanalysis Caulfield, Ernest. “A Physician Diagnoses Hysteria.” In Mappen, pp. 51 – 62. Demos, John. “Underlying Themes in the Witchcraft of Seventeenth-Century New England.” The American Historical Review. Vol. 75, No. 5 (June 1970), 1311 – 1326. Interview: Mary Beth Norton discusses the Salem witch trials. Source: NPR Weekend Edition, October 27, 2002. Transcript: https://teacherweb.com/CA/LodiHighSchool/MrsRose/Interviewmaryhortonsalem.doc. Email a draft of your paper to your review partner by 8 pm, so they have time to read and comment on it before the next class.
Week 10 Political and Diplomatic History Bennett, M. Todd. ”The Spirit of ’76: Diplomacy Commemorating the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976.” Diplomatic History, Vol. 40, No. 4 (September 2016), 695 – 721. Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Chapter 2, “Telling Stories about Race and Democracy,” 47 – 78. Bring or email your comments on your classmate’s draft back to them.
Week 11 Labor History and History of American Capitalism Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1999. Chapter 3, "Fashioning Political Subjectivities: The 1909 Shirtwaist Strike and the ‘Rational Girl Striker,” 84 – 118. Ott, Julia Cathleen. “When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for Investor’s Democracy and the Emergence of the Retail Investor in the United States, 1890 – 1930.” Enterprise and Society, Vol. 9. No. 4 (December 2008), 619 – 630.
Week 12 Oral History, Public History, Digital Humanities TBA |