HIST612

A seminar on modern European historiography, 1900-1945. Exposes students to numerous historical approaches over a variety of subjects and time periods. The goal is to understand the kinds of questions historians ask and the various methodologies they use to study that past. Students focus on those historical works that have been critical to our collective understanding and that have driven the historiographical conversation between and among historians. Students read texts, both "old" and "new," to understand how historians have researched, thought about, discussed and even debated the most salient issues in the period 1900-1945. Students will complete a final historiographical paper. Constitutes as major preparation for the capstone essays in Europe history in conjunction with one other Europe historiography course.