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History 5581-101: Records and Society Tuesday, January 15 Introductions and Instructions Lecture: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Records and Society Tour of Special Collections
Thursday, January 17 Lecture: A Brief History of Writing and the Origins of Records Discussion: Who is an Archivist? What is an Archive? Jimerson, American Archival Studies, pp. 21-28; pp. 29-46
Tuesday, January 22 Lecture: Archival History, From Ancient to Modern CHOOSE TOPIC FOR SHORT PAPER #1 Discussion: Archival History Jimerson, American Archival Studies, pp. 47-72; pp. 73-97
Thursday, January 24 Lecture: “In the Beginning was the Word:” the Origin of the Book Discussion: Review the Exhibition, “In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000 at
Tuesday, January 29 Lecture: Norman and Angevin England, Politics and Society, Part 1. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record, pp 1-80.
Thursday, January 31 Lecture: Norman and Angevin England, Politics and Society, Part 2 Discussion: The use of documents and the making of documents Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record, pp. 81-144
Tuesday, February 5 SHORT PAPER #1 DUE!! Lecture: Collecting Records, Building Archives Discussion: Selection and documentation Jimerson, American Archival Studies, pp. 177-192; 211-241
Thursday, February 7 Lecture: Archival Appraisal Discussion: Appraisal, the archivist’s toughest job? The shaping of collections Jimerson, American Archival Studies, pp. 244-342
Tuesday, February 12 Lecture: The Processing of Archival Collections Discussion: Arrangement and Description Keiner, “Finding Aids in a Digital World,” Journal of the Society of North PROCESSING PROJECT BEGINS Thursday, February 14 Lecture: Norman and Angevin England: Politics and Society, Part 3 Discussion: Preserving documents and the importance of language Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record, pp. 145-223
Tuesday, February 19 Lecture: Norman and Angevin England: Church and State, Noble and Peasant, Men and Women Discussion: The meaning of literacy and the role of records in English medieval society Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record, pp. 224-334
Thursday, February 21 Lecture: The Renaissance Discussion: Printing as “an agent for change” Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution, pp. ix-xiv, and 3-91
Tuesday, February 26 PROCESSING PROJECT DUE!! Lecture: Gutenberg’s revolution and the mechanics of printing to 1800 Discussion: Printing and the Renaissance CHOOSE TOPIC FOR SHORT PAPER #2 Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution, 92-147
Thursday, February 28 Lecture: The Reformation Discussion: Printing and the Reformation Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution, 148-186
Tuesday, March 4 Lecture: Renaissance Astronomy: The Copernican Revolution Discussion: Printing and beginnings of Modern Science.
Thursday, March 6 SHORT PAPER #2 DUE SELECT TOPIC FOR RESEARCH PAPER Discussion: One Effect of Print Culture: More and Varied Writing Review the online exhibition, “Technologies of Writing in the age of Print” at http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=2317, or go to www.folger.com and click on What’s On, the Exhibitions, then past Exhibitions, the title of the exhibition.
SPRING BREAK Lecture: American Business and their Records in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Discussion: The communication imperative and technology Yates, Control through Communication, pp 1-64
Thursday, March 20 Lecture: American Business, American Records, Late 19th and 20th Centuries Discussion: Types of business records and their use Yates, Control through Communication, pp. 65-100
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Thursday, March 27 Lecture: “I’ve been working on the railroad” Discussion: Railroads and records Yates, Control through Communication, pp. 101-158
Tuesday, April 1 Lecture: Connecticut Industrial History Discussion: Control through communication at Scovill Yates, Control through Communication, pp. 159-200
Thursday, April 3 Lecture: American Business in the era of the Pax Americana Discussion: DuPont, modern business methods, and modern business records Yates, Control Through Communication, pp. 201-275
Tuesday, April 8 Lecture: Practical Preservation Discussion: The idea of permanence and the reality of impermanence Jimerson, American Archival Studies, pp 473-546.
Thursday, April 10 Lecture: The Modern Archives: collecting, Managing, Marketing Discussion: Archives and the management of electronic records Jimerson, American Archival Studies, pp 547-629.
Tuesday, April 15 Lecture: The Modern Archives: collecting, Managing, Marketing RESEARCH PAPER DUE!! Lecture: Archives, History and Post-Modernism Discussion: Has the nature of records changed since 1980? Levy, Scrolling Forward, pp. xi-xxiii, 1-100.
Thursday, April 17 Lecture: A day in the Reading Room the view from the reader’s chair Discussion: Research in archives, the view from the reference desk Jimerson, American Archival Studies, pp. 415-471
Tuesday, April 22 Lecture: Historiography: The Historians Craft Today Discussion: Scrapbooks and Diaries, Blogs and E-mail Levy, Scrolling Forward, 101-202
Thursday, April 24 Student presentations of Research Papers
Tuesday, April 29 Student Presentations of Research Papers Preparation for final examination
Saturday, May 3 FINAL EXAMINATION, Belk Library, Rhinehart Room, 12:00 – 2:30 pm |