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Course Handouts for Undergraduate Proseminar (back to top)

• 2004:
  • Hist 133P SYLLABUS
  • prospectus
  • notetaking with index cards
  • peer reviewing
  • oral presentation
  • web format guide.

Course materials from previous years (back to top)

• 2003 syllabus for Research Seminar in German History (Hist 233ab)

Other Public History Courses (back to top)

• Public History Resource Center (publichistory.org) has a listing of excellent Public History Syllabi [2008 web archive version], including Museum Studies, Oral History, Digital History
• Senior Honors Thesis Seminar (by Harold Marcuse [me!], UCSB, 1998-99) link (or link)

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Old Announcements (back to top)

• April 26, 2007: This is a temporary placeholder for the default homepage. At the moment, the only real content is the 2007 Hist 217B(c) syllabus.
• May 4, 2007: The articles by Rosenfeld and on the Eisenhower-Kennedy meeting are now available on eres. The password is pretty. Oh, I see that they didn't use my photocopies, but just linked to the jstor versions.
• May 7, 2007: For this Thursday (week 6), please read the following:
  • Rosenfeld (1994). "The Reception of William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," in: (pdf).
    Make an outline of the project as Rosenfeld might have done in an early stage of research (like where you are now).
  • Greenstein & Immerman (1992). "What Did Eisenhower Tell Kennedy About Indochina?," in: (pdf)
  • If you're interested, have a glance at: Daniel Kerr, "We Know What the Problem Is": Using Oral History to Develop a Collaborative Analysis of Homelessness from the Bottom Up," in: Oral History Review 30:1(Winter/Spring 2003), Pages 27-45 (abstr & pdf)
• Oct. 30, 2007: Thesis paper handout (word document)
  • Julia's sample article: Peggy G. Hargis, "For the Love of Place: Paternalism and Patronage in the Georgia Lowcountry, 1865-1898," The Journal of Southern History 70:4 (2004), 825-864. (40-page, 8MB pdf; html version)
  • Joe's sample article: Patrick Major, "Rummel um Rommel: The Desert Fox Myth in the Early Federal Republic," paper presented at the GSA, San Diego, Oct. 7, 2007 (link removed 3/3/08 )
  • Tara's sample article: Robert Gellately, "Denunciations in 20th-Century Germany: Aspects of Self-Policing in the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic," Journal of Modern History 68(Dec. 1996), 931-967. (37-page pdf, 800k)
  • Brian's article (7Mb pdf)
• Nov. 13, 2007: This Thursday Abraham will present, and we will discuss Brian's article. The two readings are available as pdfs:
  • Richard Overy, "The Post-War Debate," in: Paul Addison and Jeremy Crang (eds.), Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945 (Chicago: I.R. Dee, 2006), 123-142. (1.5M pdf)
  • Brenda Melendy, "Expellees on Strike: Competing Victimization Discourses and the Dachau Refugee Camp Protest Movement, 1948-1949," German Studies Review 28:1 (2005), 107-125 (7MB pdf).
  • Advice on oral presentations: Sam Wineburg, "Keeping Their Eyes Open... Must It Be This Way? Ten Rules for Keeping Your Audience Awake During Conferences" (2 page pdf). Educational Researcher, Vol. 33 No. 4 (originally from www.aera.net).
• Nov. 14, 2007: 2-page pdf with the notes from the Overy reading.