Course Description Booklet

Summer Quarter, 2008
The Department of History, The Ohio State University
Undergraduate History Office, 110 Dulles Hall, 292-6793

The Department of History has compiled information in this booklet to assist students in selecting courses for Summer Quarter, 2008. The descriptions are accurate as of March 12, 2008. Please be aware that changes may be made.

A printed version of the coursebook is also available in the History office, 106 Dulles Hall.

AMERICAN | EUROPEAN | THEMATIC | FIRST TERM | SECOND TERM

This course surveys the political, constitutional, social, and economic development of the U.S. from the Colonial Period through the Era of Reconstruction. This course, in conjunction with HIS 152, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the GEC. Not open to students with credit for History 150.01.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 MW
5:30-7:18 MW

HISTORY 152 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION SINCE 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course surveys the political, constitutional, social, and economic development of the U.S. from the Era of Reconstruction to the present. This course, in conjunction with HIS 151, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the GEC. Not open to students with credit for History 150.02 or History 150.03.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 TR
5:30-7:18 TR

HISTORY 323.01 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course provides a comprehensive assessment of African American history from its African origins until the end of the Civil War in 1865. In order to accomplish this task, a wide variety of pedagogical and methodological approaches will be utilized. Students will be exposed not only to narrative based examinations of black history, but also cartographical resources, such as maps, audiovisual, and internet based materials on various aspects of this experience. Methodologically, a significant portion of the course will involve learning the craft of the historian. Students will be asked to analyze primary documents and draw their own conclusions regarding the past. We will also look at historical interpretations, analyze evidence and sources, and develop critical and analytical skills in assessing the meaning of the African American past. Students will be exposed to new interpretations and approaches regarding the topic. As a result of this experience, one will not only enhance their knowledge, but also deepen their historical skills and understanding.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-1:18 TR Hall

Assigned Readings:
Robin Kelley & Earl Lewis, To Make the World Anew: A History of African Americans
Jonathan Earle, The Routledge Atlas of African American History
Thomas C. Holt & Elsa B. Brown, eds., Major Problems in African American History,
Volume I: From Slavery to Freedom.
Peter Hinks, ed., David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.

Assignments:
All students are required to attend class on a regular basis. In order to makeup missed assignments, students must provide official documentation within one week of the absence, and arrange to complete all missed work. It is the responsibility of the student to officially enroll in the class no later than the second week of classes. Requests to add the course will not be honored after this time. Students should also retain copies of all submitted work. Students are required to take a midterm and a final exam. The midterm will consist of identifications and an essay, and the final exam will consist of two essays. In addition to the midterm and final, students will submit a 3-4 page typed Perceptions of African American History paper. This paper is a formal academic essay which should discuss your previous experience with the discipline in high school and college as well as its relationship to your understanding of American history. Papers should include an introduction and a thesis, a body, and conclusion. Papers will be graded on thoughtfulness, intellectual rigor, content, and grammar. You will also have primary source assignments and a book review of David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. Instructions for these assignments will be distributed at the end of the first full week of class.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Groups A & B, pre & post-1750.

This course surveys the Ancient Civilizations (Near East, Greece, Rome), the Barbarian Invasions, Medieval Civilizations (Byzantium, Islam, Europe), the Renaissance, and the Reformation. A central text focuses on the course and each instructor supplements the text with several other readings. This course, in conjunction with HIS 112, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the GEC. It is not open to students with credit for 100.01.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 MW
5:30-7:18 MW

HISTORY 112 WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO MODERN TIMES
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course surveys the political, scientific, and industrial revolutions; the rise of nationalism and the decline of empires; the two world wars and the cold war. A central text focuses the course and each instructor supplements the text with other readings. This course, in conjunction with HIS 111, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the GEC. It is not open to students with credit for 100.02 or 100.03.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 TR
5:30-7:18 TR

MILITARY HISTORY COURSE OFFERINGS

HISTORY 308D THE VIETNAM WAR
5 Cr. Hrs.

Beginning with an overview of the Southeast Asian cultural and political background, History 308 addresses the history of the Vietnam War focusing on the period from the foundation of the Doc Lap Dong Minh, the "League for Vietnamese Independence" by Ho Chi Minh in 1941 through the aftermath of the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. The initial lectures address the early history and cultures of Vietnam and Southeast Asia; the final lectures touch on recent developments and future prospects. The bulk of the course deals with the period 1946-1975, encompassing French and American involvement in the war and South Vietnam's struggle to survive as an independent nation. While the course addresses political reaction to the war in America, the focus is on events on the ground in Southeast Asia, encompassing developments in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand as well as Vietnam proper.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
On-line On-line Guilmartin

Assigned Readings (tentative):
Philip B. Davidson, Vietnam at War: The History, 1945-1975 (1988) [required]
Truong Nhu Tang, A Viet Cong Memoir (1986) [required]
Stuart Herrington, Stalking the Vietcong: Inside Operation Phoenix, A Personal Account (2004) [required]; first published as Silence Was a Weapon (1982) either ed. is acceptable
NOTE: One of the following four books is required:
Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992)
Duong Thu Huong, Paradise of the Blind (1988)
Duong Thu Huong, Novel Without a Name, (1996)
Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War (1995)
The following books are optional:
Eric M. Bergerud, Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam (1993) [optional]
Otto J. Lehrack, No Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam (1992)
Marshall L. Michael, III, Clashes: Air Combat over North Vietnam, 1965-1972.
Marshall L. Michael, III, The Eleven Days of Christmas: America’s Last Vietnam Battle (2002)
Chuck Gross, Rattler One Seven: A Helicopter Pilots War Story (2006)

Assignments:
Course requirements include a quiz, a mid-term and a final examination. Texts are available at SBX.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Groups A & B, post-1750.

The 1960s was a time of experimentation and turmoil as America witnessed the rise of an array of social movements. As various groups challenged long-standing beliefs and practices related to race relations, gender roles, sexuality, and foreign policy, others defended the status quo. This class explores various ways to understand the 1960s by reading the works of scholars who study this era as well as the life narratives of individuals who lived through this time.

*This course is designed for senior history majors and fulfills one of the requirements for the degree in history.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 R Wu

Assigned Readings:
To be determined.

Assignments:
Weekly reading responses (1-2 pages).
Leading a class discussion.
A comparison of a life narrative assigned in class with an oral history collected by the student.
A historical analysis of a cultural representation of the 1960s.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Senior history majors only.

WOMEN’S HISTORY COURSE OFFERINGS

HISTORY 781 TOPICS IN WOMEN’S HISTORY: RACING SEX AND SEXING RACE
5 Cr. Hrs.

Looking for some fun summer reading? This is the class for you! This graduate level course examines the connections between race and sex in modern U.S. History. Through readings and discussions, we will analyze how the regulation of sexuality has historically been linked to efforts to create and control racial boundaries. In addition, we will explore how individuals and communities both transgressed and reified these sexual and racial norms.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 T Wu

Assigned Readings (tentative): Books you won’t be embarrassed to take to the beach!

Kinship and Love
Tiya Miles, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (California, 2006)
Martha Hodes, The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (Norton, 2007)
Sex and Scandal
Lisa Duggan, Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity (Duke, 2000)
Mary Ting-Yi Lui, The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton, 2005)
Conquest and Community
Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 (Chicago, 2005)
Nan Alamilla Boyd, Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 (California, 2005)
Manufacturing Normality
Julian B. Carter, The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940 (Duke, 2007)
Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (California, 2005)
The Nuclear Family in A Nuclear Age
Renee Romano, Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (Harvard, 2003)
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America (NYU, 2004)

FIRST TERM

HISTORY 111 WESTERN CIVILIZATION: ANTIQUITY TO THE 17TH CENTURY
5 Cr. Hrs.

See description page 4.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 M-R
1:30-3:18 M-R

HISTORY 151 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION 1607 TO 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

See description page 2.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 M-R
11:30-1:18 M-R
1:30-3:18 M-R

HISTORY 152 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION 1877 - PRESENT
5 Cr. Hrs.

See description page 2.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:30-2:18 M-R

HISTORY 171 LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION 1725 - PRESENT
5 Cr. Hrs.

Latin American political, social, economic, and cultural history from Pre-Columbian times to independence (1825) focusing on imperialism, religion, minorities, war and rebellion.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-1:18 M-R

HISTORY 181 WORLD HISTORY TO 1500
5 Cr. Hrs.

History of the human community to 1500, primary emphasis on history of civilizations, and secondary emphasis on patterns of regional and hemispheric integration.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-1:18 M-R

HISTORY 559 HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA FROM COLONIAL
5 Cr. Hrs. TIMES TO 1860

In this course we will discuss the history of slavery in North America from the colonial era to the Civil War. We will include material on bondage in other societies, but the focus will be on African-American slavery in what is now the United States. We will explore various aspects of the slave experience, such as work, religion, family life, resistance, and rebellion. We will also discuss free blacks, people of mixed race, yeoman whites, and slave owners, as well as the significance of slavery as a culture, economic, and political issues.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
8:30-10:18 M-Thurs Cashin

Assignments:
Students will read several monographs, write one paper and take exams.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, pre-1750.

HISTORY 598.01* SENIOR COLLOQUIUM
5 Cr. Hrs.

In this course we will explore World War I and its impact on men and women. We will focus both on the particular ways in which men and women encountered and experienced the war, and on the ways in which the war impacted gender relation both during the war years and in their aftermath.

*This course is designed for senior history majors and fulfills one of the requirements for the degree in history.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 M-Thurs Soland

Assigned Readings: to be announced.

Assignments:
Short weekly writing assignments based on readings.
One essay (12-15 pages) due at the end of the quarter.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Open to senior history majors only.

SECOND TERM COURSES

HISTORY 112 WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO MODERN TIMES
5 Cr. Hrs.

See description page 4.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 M-R
1:30-3:18 M-R

HISTORY 151 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION 1607 TO 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

See description page 2.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:30-2:18 M-R

HISTORY 152 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION SINCE 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

See description page 2.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 M-R
11:30-1:18 M-R
1:30-3:18 M-R

HISTORY 172 LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION 1825 - PRESENT
5 Cr. Hrs.

Latin American political, social, economic, and cultural history from 1825 to the present focusing on neo-colonialism, instability, underdevelopment, militarism, and minorities.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-1:18 M-R

HISTORY 182 WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1500
5 Cr. Hrs.

History of the human community from 1500 to the present, primary emphasis on processes of global integration, and secondary emphasis on comparative civilization.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-1:18 M-R

HISTORY 398 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL THOUGHT
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course is designed to introduce undergraduate history majors to the discipline and some of the methods of history. The successful completion of the course will result in your gaining firsthand knowledge of how historians work. We will achieve this objective by examining and analyzing historical documents, by reading, studying, and dissecting (critiquing) published historical (and fictional) works, by learning the mechanics of historical production, and by writing historical essays.

The specific topic of this class is Nat Turner’s rebellion. In 1831, Turner, a Southampton County Virginia slave, led a revolt designed to overthrow the institution of slavery. The revolt has been reconstructed by historians, fictionalized by novelists, and even translated onto film. Almost every generation recreates Turner anew. We will look at available documents on this incident, the different interpretations of them, and draw our own intelligent conclusions about what definitely happened, what probably happened, and what we can never really know. We will also try to account for the different views that exist and the conclusions that cannot be verified (and were probably false).

The point of these analyses is not simply to know all we can about Turner’s revolt, but to think about the discipline of history. We will examine other primary documents from the period to aid us in this process as well. We will read and write book reviews, review historical journals, and spend some time looking at new technologies and resources for conducting historical research. We will also pay attention to problems and pitfalls of historical research and writing. In the process, we will look at and think about “driving forces” of history, whether history is objective or subjective, and the role of the historian in history. We will talk about “good” history and “bad” history, how to use sources, what “facts” are, and whether or not history can be scientific. Altogether, our goal is to become better historians through critical reading and thoughtful analysis of original and interpreted sources.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 M-Thurs Shaw

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is required for all students declaring a Major in History in the Spring of 1996 or afterward, and is strongly recommended for students who declared a Major in History prior to the spring of 1996. It is a good course for students seeking a minor in history.