Introduction to Social Studies
Summer 2007
HIS 390
M/W/F 8:30-9:35
BU102

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

Office Hours:
M/W 9:30-10:45, 12:30-1:30
and by appointment

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Course Readings

Required Texts
Gary Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn, History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past (New York: Vintage, 2000);

Peter Stearns, Peter Seixas, and Sam Wineburg, editors, Knowing, Teaching, & Learning history: National and International Perspectives (New York: New York University Press, 2000);

Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001).

Texts Required for Final Project (two of three)
John Ellis, Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989)

Judy Barrett Litoff and David C. Smith, eds., Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995)

James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)

Recommended Supplementary Reading
Lichtenstein, et. al., Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society (Worth, 2000).

Electronic Course Reserve
Additional articles and book chapters are available on electronically, mostly on ECR, http://scholar.csuohio.edu/screens/m_course.html; when materials are available in other places on the Internet, the links will be specified and the course website will contain links to those materials. You should always bring a copy of any required reading to class on the day for which it is assigned.