{"id":234,"date":"2014-09-04T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T11:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/?p=234"},"modified":"2014-12-15T13:28:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T13:28:52","slug":"course-intro-writing-recent-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/course-intro-writing-recent-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Intro: Writing Recent History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Link: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/1967\/03\/on-the-writing-of-contemporary-history\/305731\/\">On Writing Contemporary History<\/a>&#8221; <i>The Atlantic<\/i>, March 1967.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><br \/>\nWho is this author? What&#8217;s the historical context of his essay?<br \/>\nHow does Schlesinger answer his own question, &#8220;When do contemporary affairs become history&#8221;?<br \/>\nHow does he explain the rise of &#8220;contemporary history&#8221; as a legitimate and respectable endeavor?<br \/>\nIn Schlesinger&#8217;s time, how were historical sources and evidence changing?<br \/>\nWhat does Schlesinger think is the historian&#8217;s obligation to living people?<br \/>\nJohn Dewey (1859-1952) is quoted here as claiming that ALL history is &#8220;history of the present.&#8221; What did he mean?<br \/>\nIf you could go back in time to 1967 and enlighten Schlesinger about what would, or would not, change for historians and history by 2014, what would you tell him?    <\/p>\n<p><strong>For our next class meeting (Tues 9\/9)- 3 Things<\/strong><br \/>\nRead the Schlesinger essay, considering the discussion questions above (i.e. be prepared to talk about them in class)<\/p>\n<p>Bring a textbook that goes past 1980 (any textbook, does not have to be college-level, and does not have to be U.S.)<\/p>\n<p>*and*<\/p>\n<p>Go onto the course Blackboard and take the Research Self-Assessment Survey (it should be posted by the weekend)<br \/>\n(optional: while you&#8217;re on the course Blackboard, enroll in one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/teams\/\">Teams<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Link: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, &#8220;On Writing Contemporary History&#8221; The Atlantic, March 1967. Discussion Questions Who is this author? What&#8217;s the historical context of his essay? How does Schlesinger answer his own question, &#8220;When do contemporary affairs become history&#8221;? How does he explain the rise of &#8220;contemporary history&#8221; as a legitimate and respectable endeavor? In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-news","tag-fall14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}