What are the uses of history for life?

1. Perspectives from future history professors
   • Jason Kelly: Why history isn't boring: The Dilettante Society in late 18th C. London
   • Greg Whitesides: Uses of History, a view after Hist 4ABC
   • Rob Bromley: Theodore Plievier and the 1944 antiwar novel "Stalingrad"
   • David Burden: Why I am in History
2. Different conceptions of Hist 4c
   • History as entertainment, diversion (success of A&E, History Channel)
     (Nietzsche: "Consider the herd grazing before you. These animals [are] … only briefly concerned with their pleasure and displeasure, enthralled by the moment and for that reason neither melancholy nor bored.")
   • History as a grand narrative (textbook; charts on reader p. 9 and lecture 1)
   • Study of history: tools for analysis
     • Goya painting: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1797)
     • What happens when reason sleeps, when we don't use our critical faculties?
       • 1956 Mobil Oil ad: pouring "free flowing" oil into a stream
       • 1962 Union Carbide ad: giant hand with test tube fertilizing India
       • Could this have been known at the time?
3. The Final: 3/9 IDs, one source, one essay
   • post midterm II: chapters (35), 36, 37, 38, 39
   • IDs: list of 25
     • UCSB web site updates:
       Friday 1pm, Sat. noon or 5pm, Sun. 5pm
   • source: textbook 978, 1003, 1026, 1058
     • think about links to "isms": national, conservative, liberal, capital, Marx, social, imperial, Lenin, Stalin, fascism, environment;
       industrialization, Enlightenment (x2), …
   • Essay: pie charts on "big events"
   • Which? history standards:
     • French revolution, industrialization
     • Imperialism, World War I, Russian Revolution
     • Fascism, World War II, Holocaust
     • Decolonization, Cold War