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Historiography

Historiography. The Trinity. Gender (vs. sex) Class (vs. caste) Race (vs. ethnicity) The Bermuda Triangle. Narrative Forms. Comedy: bad things working out in the end Tragedy: fatal flaw Irony: unexpected outcome Not the Alanis Morissette song

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Historiography

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  1. Historiography

  2. The Trinity • Gender (vs. sex) • Class (vs. caste) • Race (vs. ethnicity) • The Bermuda Triangle

  3. Narrative Forms • Comedy: bad things working out in the end • Tragedy: fatal flaw • Irony: unexpected outcome • Not the Alanis Morissette song • Teleology: Hegel—thesis, antithesis, synthesis ultimate outcome guided by “Spirit” • Material determination: Marx • Base and superstructure

  4. Overall Interpretations • Germ theory: “germs” of American society come from Europe (esp. England and Germany) • Frederick Jackson Turner: frontier thesis American exceptionalism • Richard White: middle ground / borderlands • Progressives: class conflict; Charles Beard • Consensus: ideological commonality; Richard Hofstadter • (New) Social History: demographics, non-elite • Post-CRM: Black history, Feminism, neo-Marxism, microhistory

  5. Colonial • Declension model • Perry Miller: New England mind, jeremiads as proof of continuity • Edmund Morgan: slavery democracy • Jack Greene and J.R. Pole: developmental framework: simplification elaboration replication • Anglicization • Atlantic World: comparative method linking N+S America, Europe, Africa • Ira Berlin, “From Creoles to Africans”

  6. Revolution • Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood: Classical Republicanism, ideology • Gary Nash: old-style Progressive class conflict w/ Zinn focus on lower orders (pre-elite rebellion against authority)

  7. Antebellum • Charles Sellers: The Market Revolution (neo-Marxist analysis industrialization and impact society) • Arthur Schlesinger, The Age of Jackson (neo-progressive: class and ideological conflict; reading FDR into AJ) • Paul Johnson, A Shopkeeper’s Millennium (reform as middle class control)

  8. Slavery and Reconstruction • Plantation School (Washington, U.B. Phillips) vs. Stanley Elkins (infantilizing concentration camps) vs. Eugene Genovese: Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made • “Birth of a Nation” vs. W.E.B. DuBois and Eric Foner

  9. Points of Conflict • Industrialization: Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? • Populists and Progressives: Reformers or Conservatives? • Great Depression: Free market critics of government (Milton Friedman) vs. Critics of capitalism (J.M. Keynes) • 1950s: Conformity or Rebellion? • 1960s: Success or failure of social movements

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