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The Politics of the Presidency I wanted to share with everyone the videos and other material from my course on the American Presidency from Washington to Lincoln. Here’s the archive of RealClear History articles with the videos. Students may find the written overviews and the ads a good way to get a brief survey of […] History 159: War and National (Re)Formation Fall 2012 Professor Demetrius L. Eudell Assignment: Analysis of Revolutionary/Early Republic Broadside During the colonial era, broadsides were tremendously important in British North America, as they often served to inform people of news and current events, as well as being used for advertisements, proclamations from the government, and […] Iowa Room (1) “Global Valley” is an American Studies introductory course that teaches American Studies methodologies through a study of the local—the valley in question is the Connecticut River Valley—so the assignments are all quite different, material culture analysis of an object, a close reading of a Dickinson poem, digging into census data, contemporary oral history exercises etc…. […] This assignment was developed by Jon Andelson, Professor of Anthropology, for his first-year seminar, “Our Prairie Town”, taught fall, 2012. Tutorial 2012 Paper Assignments Here is an example of an assignment I’m working to develop for a future instantiation of my course on Dickens and serial publication. We did a smaller version of it this semester, working with an article by Gerard Curtis called “Dickens in the Visual Market,” but I’d like to extend the assignment for next year […] The goal of my 200 level English course “Reading Historically” is to think about the relationship between literary analysis and historical research. We do a lot of work with digital archives, for example when they are reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter I teach them how to use a variety of digital databases (American Periodical […] Here a link to the course requirements for the latest iteration of American Studies Web Museum: Winter 2012: The American Studies Web Museum (our theme was “Race and Education at Middlebury” to dovetail with the theme of Middlebury’s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity for 2011-12). Ian Barrow provides an overview of primary documents on South Asia for students writing Junior thesis in History at Middlebury Primary documents on South Asia for HIST 0600 (Junior Thesis) Ian barrow, Middlebury, provides the syllabus, and final essay assignment for his East India Company course East India Company Syllabus 2012 East India Company final assignment |