Week 1 (Jan 10): Introduction: Historical knowledge and the historian’s craft. How to read a book workshop.
Prologues to Livy, Thucydides, Herodotus [in pdf on Blackboard].
Collingwood, R.G., “Who killed John Doe? The problem of testimony” from The Idea of History, in Winks, R.W., ed., The Historian as Detective (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), pp.39-60.
Week 2 (Jan 17): Marx, Weber and other theorists and historical research
Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party. (14-27)
Wang, Q. Edward. “Between Marxism and Nationalism: Chinese Historiography and the Soviet Influence, 1949-1963.” Journal of Contemporary China 9, no. 23 (2000): 95-111.
Week 3 (Jan 24): Examples of historical research: from political/institutional history to social history
Skim: Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (reserve in UB)
WEB DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, Forethought & sections I-II
Frank Snowden, “The Negro in Classical Italy,” AJP 70 (1947) 266-92; “The Negro in Ancient Greece,” American Anthropologist 50,1 (1948) 31-44.
Week 4 (Jan 31):
Cultural history and historical research
Skim: P Burke, What Is Cultural History? [on hold in UB]
Peter Burke, “Cultural History and its Neighbors” http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/7/25
Grafton, Anthony. “The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950-2000 and Beyond.” Journal of the History of Ideas 67.1 (2006): 1-32.
Tutorial 1 (Marx, Weber, social history cultural history)
All students must bring one very short extract from historical sources (c. 250 words, or image, object) of their choosing to class and discuss how they might apply one of the methodologies studied to them. In advance of the tutorial students should submit the source to the TA and a 1-page outline of how one of the methodologies might be applied to it. This will aid the subsequent discussion.
Week 5 (Feb 7): No class – Lunar New Year!
Week 6 (Feb 14): Historical geography and historical research
Adelman, “Is global history still possible..?” https://aeon.co/essays/is-global-history-still-possible-or-has-it-had-its-moment
Drayton, Richard, and David Motadel. “Discussion: The Futures of Global History.” Journal of Global History 13.1 (2018): 1-21.
Skim: Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms [UL reserve]
Skim: Timothy Brook, Vermeer’s Hat [UL reserve]
Tutorial 2 (Geography)
All students must bring one very short extract from historical sources (c. 250 words, or image, object) of their choosing to class and discuss how they might apply one of the methodologies studied to them. In advance of the tutorial students should submit the source to the TA and a 1-page outline of how one of the methodologies might be applied to it. This will aid the subsequent discussion.
Week 7 (Feb 21): Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality
Scott, J.W., “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” in J.W. Scott, ed., Feminism and History
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: a Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics”. University of Chicago Legal Forum. 1989: 139–168.
Skim: Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940. New York: BasicBooks, 1994. (Ebook online)
Tutorial 3 (gender & sexuality)
All students must bring one very short extract from historical sources (c. 250 words, or image, object) of their choosing to class and discuss how they might apply one of the methodologies studied to them. In advance of the tutorial students should submit the source to the TA and a 1-page outline of how one of the methodologies might be applied to it. This will aid the subsequent discussion.
Week 8 (Feb 28): Economic history and historical research
Haskell, Thomas L. (October 2, 1975). “The True & Tragical History of ‘Time on the Cross‘“. The New York Review of Books
Walter Scheidel, Slavery in the Roman Economy.
Skim: Braudel, F., trans. Ranum, P.M., Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977).
Skim: David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Book review only: Orlando Patterson, Freedom.
Tutorial 4 (economic history)
All students must bring one very short extract from historical sources (c. 250 words, or image, object) of their choosing to class and discuss how they might apply one of the methodologies studied to them. In advance of the tutorial students should submit the source to the TA and a 1-page outline of how one of the methodologies might be applied to it. This will aid the subsequent discussion.
*Digital History Component*
Week 9 (Mar 7): Basics of historical research (i): identifying errors in source materials and the challenges of digital history
“Concepts and Readings,” 1A-1B, http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=8 (just read, do not do exercises)
Introduction to Statistics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyYifTHIcyw
“Math & Art History” http://digitalhumanities.berkeley.edu/blog/15/06/04/math-and-art-history-find-common-ground-dictionary-learning
Skim: Jakub Kabala, “Computational authorship attribution in medieval Latin corpora: the case of the Monk of Lido (ca. 1101–08) and Gallus Anonymous (ca. 1113–17),” Language Resources and Evaluation (2018), 1-32.
Skim: Alex Borucki, David Eltis and David Wheat. “Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America,” American Historical Review, 120 (2015): 433-461.
Skim: http://www.slavevoyages.org/
Week 10 (Mar 14): Basics of historical research (ii): data, examining archives and conducting field work
Read: 2B-5A, , http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=8 (just read, do not do exercises)
Download Transatlantic Slave Trade Database EXCEL sheets: expanded data; Inter-American Trade; British Atlantic. Here is the manual for understanding it all [questions: what is the data; how was it created; what are the potential problems with it; how is it presented?]
Do Tableau tutorial: http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=163 (this might also be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT1iHLGawIM)
Create some Tableau visualizations answering a hypothetical research question about Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database using the EXCEL sheets, and bring them to class (USB or email to TA and we can discuss them).
If you have a laptop, please bring it to class.
For the final projects, students might also be interested in: Scottish Witchcraft Trials ; Civil Unrest Events ; US government data, etc.
Week 11 (Mar 21): Basics of historical research (iii): analyzing and inferring from historical documents and other sources
Read 5B-8A, http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=8 (just read, do not do exercises)
Do Text Analysis tutorials: http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=172 ;http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=182
Apply one of these techniques to a text of your choice and bring your results to class.
Look at African Names Database, and think about how you might apply digital methods to it.
Do ArcGIS mapping: set up a free account at https://www.arcgis.com/home/index.html
Do these tutorials: https://learn.arcgis.com/en/projects/get-started-with-arcgis-online/ ;https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/get-started/quick-exercise-maps.htm
Please make one map (it can be very simple and bring it to class).
If you have a laptop, please bring it to class.
Week 12 (Mar 28): Displaying historical research and public history: cases of historical research.
Read 2A, 8B-10B, http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=8 (just read, do not do exercises)
Omeka, http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=104
HTML http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=178
Glassberg, David. “Public History and the Study of Memory.” The Public Historian 18.2 (1996): 7-23.
Either visit the Hong Kong Museum of History (“The Hong Kong Story” wing), if you have not already, or Slavery and Global Public History.
If you have a laptop, please bring it to class.
Week 13 (Apr 4): No class – reading week!
Week 14 (Apr 11): Trouble-shooting digital projects
Please send any problems or questions you have about your project (24 hours ahead of class), and we will solve them as a class.
12 noon Teaching Evaluation
Week 15 (Apr 18): Presentations and Discussions of Digital Projects.
Please email or bring your presentation on a USB.
