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__HIU 534: Seminar in American Historiography__
Welcome to the homepage for HIU 534: Seminar in American Historiography!

The seminar has been designed with a few goals in mind:


 * To expose participants to a variety of American history monographs.
 * To expose participants to different interpretations of historical events.
 * To have participants practice critical writing as applied to reviews of historical monographs.
 * To have participants identify and analyze primary documents accessible to secondary school students.
 * To have participants contextualize a collection of primary documents so that they are more easily accessible for their students.

For a copy of the seminar syllabus, please click on the link below: [|HIU 534 Syllabus Spring 2009.doc]

The following links will take you to the discussion forum pages for each of the books to be read in the seminar: Chants Democratic The Wages of Whiteness The Uprooted The Transplanted Making a New Deal Hammer and Hoe