| Course Title: Research Seminar in North American History: From Unsettlement to Reconstruction |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| Description: From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, how was America both settled and unsettled? How did Indigenous peoples and newcomers build and rebuild lives, communities, and possibilities for the future? We will consider themes of settlement, unsettlement, creation, violence, and rebuilding as we examine early contact between Indigenous and European peoples, trans-oceanic relationships, migration, slavery, the state, war, post-Civil War Reconstruction, and other topics students select. We will focus on research practices that produce insight into the ways people lived in their bodies, on the land, and with one another. Students' efforts will culminate in the production of a substantial research paper. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Mary Renda | 413-538-2567 | mrenda@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025 | Seminar | Tuesday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 210 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in History. | Take previously | Required |
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| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 15 | Enrollment: 8 | Available: 7 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People Author: Miles, Tiya Copyright: 2024 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780593491164 Publisher: Penguin Press |
Required | 30.00 |
| Title: A Pocket Guide to Writing in History Author: Rampolla, Mary Lynn Copyright: 2018 Edition: any Volume: ISBN: 9781319112981 Publisher: Macmillan |
Recommended | 16.99 |
| Title: The Craft of Research Author: Booth, Columb and Williams, Wayne, Gregory and Joseph Copyright: 2008 Edition: 5th Volume: ISBN: Publisher: University of Chicago Press |
Optional | 17.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Copies are on order at Copies are currently available at the Odyssey Bookshop. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: Please purchase Night Flyer only if it is not a hardship and makes sense for your budget. I have several copies for you to share among you, and the book will be on reserve. Also note that the ISBN listed is for the hardcover edition. Night Flyer is also available as an ebook, with the ISBN 9780593491171. I am recommending Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Any edition will be helpful. The latest edition is the 10th, but earlier editions can be obtained at steep discounts. I will also have at least one copy of some edition of Rampolla for you to share among you. Another text that you may find helpful for resaerch in history and in other fields, is Wayne Booth et al., The Craft of Research. I am listing it here as entirely optional. |