79-200: Historical Evidence and Interpretation
"Historical Evidence and Interpretation" is a course designed to acquaint history majors and other students how historians really work. This course considers how historians practice their craft in interpreting great events. The emphasis is on learning to supplement standard secondary accounts of an event with primary sources such as memoirs, government documents, speeches, interviews, newspapers, maps, eye-witnesses and UN resolutions. Other unusual sources include poetry, music, film, satire, and political cartoons. The goal is for the student to develop a familiarity with the skills an historian uses to identify a research topic, make use of a wide array or sources, and present his or her findings in a proper scholarly fashion.
| A | MWF | 12:30 pm - 01:20 pm | WEH 5328 | Eisenberg |