All the readings for the class are available through the web. Some require validation of UW status and are marked UW (so you must use the UWICK kit or proxy server if you are connecting from home). Readings are also listed in the Class Schedule.
- For Jan. 5
- Schlabach, Gerald W. A Sense of History: Some Components.
WWW: http://www.bluffton.edu/~schlabachg/courses/sense.htm- Stearns, Peter N. Why Study History?
WWW: http://www.theaha.org/pubs/stearns.htm- Achenbach, Joel, "The Too-Much-Information Age: Today's Data Glut Jams Libraries and Lives. But Is Anyone Getting Any Wiser?" Washington Post, 12 March 1999, page A1.
WWW: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~cs460.is&r/washpost.html
- For Feb. 5
- Oshinsky, David, "Humpty Dumpty of Scholarship: History Has Broken Into Pieces." New York Times, 26 Aug. 2000, page B9.
WWW: http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/082600history.html
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- For Feb. 7
- UW: Levine, Lawrence W., "The Unpredictable Past: Reflections on Recent American Historiography." The American Historical Review 94(1989):671-679.
Database: JSTOR- UW: Lukacs, John, "Revising the Twentieth Century." American Heritage 45,no.5(1994):83-90.
Database: Expanded Academic
- For Feb. 9
- UW: Kyvig, David E. and Myron A. Marty, "Traces and Storytelling." Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2000.
Electronic reserve, need to use your UWNETID login and password- UW: Char Miller, "What Happened in the Rainier Grand's Lobby? A Question of Sources." The Journal of American History 86(2000):1709-1715.
WWW: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/86.4/miller.html
- For Feb. 12
- Brown, Irene Quenzler and Richard D. Brown, "Tales from the Vault: Incest in the Archives." Commonplace 1, no.1(2000).
WWW: http://www.common-place.org/vol-01/no-01/tales/
- For Feb. 16
- Trachtenberg, Marc, Declassification Analysis: The Method and Some Examples.
WWW: http://www.history.upenn.edu/trachtenberg/documents/doclist.html
- For Feb. 21
- UW: Murphy, Cullen, "Backlogs of History." The Atlantic Monthly 277, no.5(1996):20-22.
Database: Expanded Academic
- For Feb. 23
- Poe, Marshall, "The Future of the Past: Academic and Popular History in the Age of the Internet." Historically Speaking Fall 2000.
WWW: http://www.bu.edu/historic/spring00.html
- For Feb. 26
- Ferrell, Keith, Truth, Lies and the Internet.
WWW: http://coverage.cnet.com/Content/Features/Dlife/Truth/
- For Mar. 5
- Jensen, Joyce, "Bicycles, Roman Toilets and Other Microscholarship." New York Times 21 Oct. 2000, page B11.
WWW: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/21/arts/21TANK.html
[Registration required]
Illustration: "The Long Bridge Over the Potomac." Illustrated London News, 20 July 1861. Courtesy of Civil War Images of Northern Virginia, George Mason University.