HIST 6157 - Readings in Race and Nineteenth-Century American History

(crosslisted) AMST 6157

Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with AMST 4157, HIST 4157.

T. Nunley.

This seminar invites students to consider major debates and historiographical problems that emerge in the history of race in nineteenth-century America. Through in-depth reading, engaging discussion, and scholarly writing we will examine slavery, northern reform movements, gender and power, the American Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Crow through the prism of race. We will explore tensions that emerge in the craft of history including public debates about the past, analytical vs. narrative history, the problem of archival sources, and what constitutes “good history.”