Nov. 1, Blog post 4: What do these more recent fields (women’s/gender, social and cultural, ethnohistory, environmental history) offer to the study of history as a whole? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How do you feel about them personally?
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Oct. 16, Blog post 3: Traditional fields–do you find more “traditional” historiographical fields (military, political/diplomatic, economic) appealing, and why/why not? What are their strengths/weaknesses? Why do you think historians have expanded, complicated, challenged these genres, like they did in rethinking their approach to Colonial America?
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Sept. 20, Blog post 2: Parkman and Jennings in historical context–what contemporary events/developments shaped their approach to historical thinking and writing? How/why might Anderson be different?
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Sept. 9, Blog post 1: Professionalization of history–how are popular and academic histories different, and why are those differences significant? Why don’t they always align?