Local History Seminar
Fall 2007
HIS 400
M/W/F 11-12:05
MC 322

Dr. Mark Tebeau
Associate Professor
Department of History
Rhodes Tower 1908
m.tebeau@csuohio.edu
Phone: 216-687-3937

Office Hours:
M/W: 12:30-1:30 or by appointment

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Local History Seminar
History 400

 

Readings

Required Texts
David Hammack, Identity, Conflict, & Cooperation (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1990);
Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, 1997);
Carol Poh Miller and Robert A. Wheeler, Cleveland: A Concise History, 1796-1996 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997).

Supplementary Reading (on ECR) will come from the following books as well as other materials listed in the course syllabus:
John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1990);
Malcolm Miles and Tim Hall, with Iain Borden, editors, The City Cultures Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004, second edition);
Martha Norkunas, Monuments & Memory: History and Representation in Lowell, Massachusetts (Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002).

Electronic Course Reserve
Additional articles and book chapters are available on Electronic Course Reserve (ECR). Follow directions by entering my name or the course number; you will find: <http://scholar.csuohio.edu/search/ptebeau/ptebeau/1,1,5,B/frameset&FF=ptebeau&1,,5>.

JSTOR is available at: <http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/tips/jstor.shtml>.

All files are in PDF format. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them. The computer lab on the fourth floor of Main Classroom Building offers free printing. You should always bring a copy of any required reading to class on the day for which it is assigned.

Readings Available on the Web:

Clara Lederer, Their Paths are Peace (1954);
Peter Bartis, (Library of Congress, American Folklife Center), Folklife and Fieldwork: a Layman's Introduction to Field Techniques

Malcolm Gladwell, The Terrazzo Jungle, The New Yorker, 2003;
Leonard Nathaniel Moore, “The School Desegregation Crisis of Cleveland, Ohio, 1963-1964: The Catalyst for Black Political Power in a Northern City,” Journal of Urban History 2002 28: 135-157;
Scott Sandage, “A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963," The Journal of American History, Vol. 80, No. 1. (Jun., 1993), pp. 135-167.

Mark Tebeau, Sculpted Gardens, Working Paper (2007)

 


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