All courses numbered 500 and above are graduate courses.
Undergraduates need to submit a course permit to enroll.
HIST 610 History and Memory in Comparative Perspective
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
In recent decades, the study of memory has become an increasingly important method for understanding the past. This course will assess the rapidly growing scholarship in this field, known variously as social, collective, or public memory. We will survey various theories of the interplay of history and memory and their application in key historical monographs and essays across a wide range of geographical and thematic areas. While we will concentrate on the United States, we will also examine this scholarship in tandem with seminal and recent historiography from Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Central topics will include memory and the forces of nationalism and war; commemoration and monuments; the role of memory in the construction of race and ethnicity; personal pasts and cultural remembrance; and the relationships between academic, public and popular histories. This course may be of interest to world historians, as it will explore parts of Europe, Latin America and Asia.
