HIST 497: HISTORY
RESEARCH SEMINAR: THE FIRST WORLD WAR
WINTER
2003
Professor
Joe Lunn, Department of Social Sciences (History)
Room: 2119 CX Telephone:
436-9184; Home: (734) 741-4465
Email: joelunn@umich.edu
Office Hours: M-W: 12:00-12:30 and 2:00-3:00 p.m., or by appointment
TEXT: Martin Gilbert, The First World War: A Complete History. Henry Holt.
READINGS:
Ernst Junger, The Storm of Steel. Howard Fertig.
Joe Lunn, Memoirs of the Maelstrom.
Heinemann.
Pat Barker, The Ghost Road. Dutton.
George Mosse, Fallen Soldiers. Oxford.
FILM:
Paths of Glory
SCHEDULE:
Week
Topics
Text
Readings/Film
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1/6 |
Introduction:
Historical Research and the First World War |
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1/13 |
Prewar
Europe *Choose
research paper topics |
Chaps. 1-2 |
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1/20 |
Martin
Luther King Jr. Day (No Class) |
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1/27 |
Combat |
Chaps. 3-14 (choose one) |
Junger |
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2/3 |
The
Home Front |
Chaps. 15-16 |
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2/10 |
The
Colonial World |
|
Lunn |
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2/17 |
The
War's Toll |
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Barker |
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2/24 |
Opposition
and Revolution |
Chaps. 17-19 |
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3/3 |
SPRING BREAK (No Class) |
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3/10 |
Film
and Discussion |
|
Paths of Glory |
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3/17 |
Victory,
Defeat, and Memory |
Chaps. 25-29 |
Mosse (Pt. 1) |
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3/24 |
Topic Presentations |
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3/31 |
Topic Presentations |
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4/7 |
Topic Presentations |
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4/14 |
Topic Presentations |
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