HIS 6403
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Harvey J. Graff
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Spring 2004
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HSS 4.04.20; 458-7353
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Tues.,
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hgraff@utsa.edu
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HSS 3.02.52
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Office hours, T, Th.
2-3:00 & by appointment
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HIS 6483
Comparative History
Exhibiting Adolescence/Adolescents is stimulated by Harvey
J. Graff’s work over many years on the history of young people, in public
history, and especi
Curators and other staff at the
Major topics of interest include history & its publics;
memory & oral history; history museums; history exhibited & history as
exhibition; exhibition as history; growing up considered historic
The
seminar has a number of purposes:
·
introduction
to major aspects of public history and its publics with an emphasis on museums
and exhibitions
·
introduction
and practice in the roles and contributions of different forms of expression,
representation, and exhibition in history with an emphasis on museums
·
learning
to analyze and critic
·
developing
and practicing skills in written, oral, visual, and material historical display
including the understanding, evaluation, and construction of museum exhibitions
·
engaging
in an interdisciplinary conversation about adolescence and adolescents,
including but not limited to the historical, comparative, and cultural study of
growing up and critical and synthetic approaches to their exhibition
·
expanding
knowledge of and understanding the value of historical approaches to the young
·
comparing
and critic
c. Essay 3 2-3 page essay on history of growing up: a) constructing the
young; b) major themes and issues in historical study of growing up Due:
Week 8
d. Essay 4 2- 3 page critical review of one exhibit Due:
Week 10
Assigned reading. A seminar is pointless, and
painful, unless the participants have read the assigned material with care. I
expect you to read
Seminar Questions
Each
member of the class should write up in advance of class at least 1 or 2 good
questions for discussion. They should be based on the required reading for each
session but may also relate that meeting to those that preceded it or draw on
non-required reading from the course bibliography. The most important task of
this assignment is to present questions and perspectives on the major topics
and issues of that week, and on the reading specific
Suggestions:
choose particularly important passages in the works for analysis, photocopy
them, and raise questions about explicating them. (If possible, distribute them
in advance, along with questions.) Choose key ideas and terms for elucidation,
or focus on the questions the work asks, its answers, and its relation to
larger issues or themes. Remember that the goal is not especi
3 (of 4) 2-3 page papers
These mini-essays are intended as a kind of think piece or intellectual exercise in learning about the critical evaluation and uses of readings, and in learning from critical, historical perspectives more broadly. Each mini-essay is an intellectual exercise in learning about history/publics/exhibiting/adolescence-adolescents in a wider framework, including contemporary {or possible future) dimensions, by a careful use of historical approaches; historical evidence; research findings or complications; conclusions or interpretations; historical and other comparisons, historical perspectives or modes of understanding; and historical criticism. Each should also be seen as preparing you for the next task in the course assignments, culminating in preparing a conceptual statement and outline walkthrough for your own exhibit.
Papers may emphasize criticism or synthesis. They may also: raise questions; relate readings and topics to each other; relate different week’s topics and readings to each other; probe specific issues; compare authors; present a critical synthesis on key points.
Each paper should be based primarily on required readings and relevant class discussions. The extensive bibliography that accompanies the syllabus may also be useful. Successful approaches to each assignment will define their specific tasks, including historical times, places, and persons, and their relationships as precisely as possible and set limits to the scope of the paper. Use footnotes or endnotes and other scholarly apparatus when appropriate or needed.
All work that is turned in for evaluation or grading should
be typed, usu
Mutual respect and cooperation, during the time we spend
together each week and the time you work on group assignments, are the basis
for successful conduct of this course. The class is a learning community that
depends on respect, cooperation, and communication among
Scholastic honesty is
expected and required. It is a major part of university life, and contributes
to the value of your university degree. All work submitted for this class must
be your own. Copying or representing the work of anyone else (in print or from
another student) is plagiarism and cheating. This is unacceptable in this class
and also prohibited by the University. Information on scholastic dishonesty,
including plagiarism, is provided in the Student Code of Conduct,
Section 203 “Scholastic Dishonesty.”
When in doubt, consult the instructor.
To receive support
services, students with disabilities must register with the Office of
Disability Services (MS 2.03.18; 458-4157-voice; 458-4981-TTY)
Department of History information
The department office is located in HSS 4.04.06 and is open M-F 8-5:00. Ms. Sherrie McDonald, Administrative Assistant, and Dr. Wing Chung Ng, Chair, are available at 458-4033 or at history@utsa.edu and will be happy to tell you more about the department’s programs and answer questions. Ms. Sylvia Mansour (smansour@utsa.edu; 458-4900) is the undergraduate student advisor, and Dr. Anne Hardgrove (kguy@utsa.edu; 458-4371; HSS 4.04.16) is the Graduate Advisor of Record. The department website is at the following URL: http://colfa.utsa.edu/colfa/HIST/home.HTM
Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. Columbia UP 1998
Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E Dunn, History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past. Knopf 1997
Karin
Calvert, Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood,
1600-1900. Northeastern, 1992
Joe Austin
and Michael Nevin Willard, eds., Generations of
Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth-Century
John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking, Museum Experience. Compass Press 1992
Optional books to purchase--
Mike W
Richard Handler and Eric Gale, The
New History in an
Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine, eds., Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Smithsonian 1992
Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, eds., Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Smithsonian 1991
Mary Lynn Stevens Heininger, et
al, A Century of Childhood 1820-1920.
Amanda Dargan and Steven Zeitlin, City Play.
Kathryn Grover, ed., Teenage New Jersey, 1941-1975.
* Library
reserve reading
HIS 6483 Harvey
J. Graff
Note: occasion
The course
Exhibiting/Adolescence/Adolescents and historical comparisons/comparative history
*Raymond Grew, "The Case for Comparing Histories," American Historical Review, 85 (1980), 763-78
*George
Fredrickson, The Comparative Imagination: On
the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements (
*Jurgen Kocka, “Comparison and Beyond,” History and Theory 42 (2003), 39-44
Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. Columbia UP 1998
*Symposium on The Presence: Public Historian, 22, 1 (Winter 2000)
Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E Dunn, History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past. Knopf 1997
Optional: Richard Handler and Eric Gale, The
New History in an
Mike W
Critical reviews of exhibits: Journal of American History, Radical History Review, American Quarterly, etc.
See also:
*Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine, eds., Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Smithsonian 1992
*Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, eds., Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Smithsonian 1991
See also bibliography in Eng 7063 F
http://colfa.utsa.edu/users/hgraff/ENG7063SyllabusFA03.html
*Alan Prout and Allison James, “A New Paradigm for the Sociology of Childhood?” in Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood, ed. James and Prout (Falmer, 1990), 7-34 (other chapters optional)
*Ludmilla Jordanova,
"Children in History: Concepts of Nature and Society," in Children,
Parents, and Politics, ed. Geoffrey Scarre
(Cambridge UP, 1989), 3-24
*Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of
Family Life. Vintage, 1962 (1960), Part I, esp. chs.
I,II,III,V, conclusion; Part II conclusions; skim Part III, pps.
15-61, 100- 135, 329-336, 398-407, 411-415
*Adrian
Wilson, "The Infancy of the History of Childhood: An Appraisal of Philippe
Aries," History & Theory, 19 (1980), 132-153
*Richard
T. Vann, "The Youth of Centuries of Childhood," History &
Theory, 21 (1982), 279- 297
and
select from
*Anthony
Burton, "Looking forward from Aries: Pictorial and material evidence for the
history of childhood and family life," Continuity and Change, 4
(1989), 203-230
*Robert
Woods, “Did Montaigne Love His Children? Demography
and the Hypothesis of Parental Indifference,” Journal of Interdisciplinary
History, 33 (2003) 421-442
*Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos,
“Adolescence as a cultural invention: Philippe Aries and the sociology of
youth,” History of the Human Sciences 8 (1995), 69-89
*Barbara Hanawalt, “Medievalists and the Study of Childhood,” Speculum
77 (2002), 440-460
*Linda
Pollock, Forgotten Children: Parent-Child Relations from 1500 to 1900.
Cambridge, 1983
*Viviana Zelizer, “Kids and
Commerce,” Childhood 9 (2002), 375-396
Karin
Calvert, Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood,
1600-1900. Northeastern, 1992
Joe Austin
and Michael Nevin Willard, eds., Generations of
Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth-Century
Nb: film, fiction, documentation, arts, etc.
Essay 3 2-3 page essay on history of growing up: a)constructing the young; b)major themes and issues in historical study of growing up Due: Week 8
Across arts and media: plastic and visual arts; video, cinematic, textual, fiction, nonfiction
*Michael Frisch, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft
and Meaning of Oral and Public History (SUNY 1990),
*/***Mary Lynn Stevens Heininger,
et al, A Century of Childhood 1820-1920.
*Centuries
of Childhood in
*Jane Corkin and Gary Michael Dault, Children
in Photography: 150 Years. Firefly Books 1990
[Hongkong
Bank of Canada National Touring Exhibit]
*/***Amanda Dargan and Steven Zeitlin, City Play.
*/***Kathryn Grover, ed., Teenage New Jersey, 1941-1975. New Jersey Historical Society/Rutgers UP 1997
*William Graebner: Coming of
Age in
****Children’s Museum Boston and Japan Forum, Teenage Tokyo
***Boyle Heights-Project, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, 2002-2003
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/pase/bhproject/index01.htm
John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking, Museum Experience. Compass Press 1992
*John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking, Museum Experience. Compass Press 1992
*Falk and Lynn D. Dierking, Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning. Rowman and Littlefield 2000
*Lisa C. Roberts, From Knowledge to Narrative: Education and the Changing Museum. Smithsonian 1997
*George E. Hein, Learning in the Museum. Routledge 1998
*Jane R. Glaser and Artemis A. Zenetou, eds., Gender Perspectives: Essays on Women in Museums. Smithsonian 1994
*Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe, eds., Theorizing Museums: Representing Identity and Diversity in a Changing World. Blackwell 1996
*Amy Henderson and Adrienne L. Kaeppler, eds., Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian. Smithsonian 1997
*Richard Sandell, Museums, Society, Inequality. Routledge 2002
*Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, eds., Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Smithsonian 1991
*Stacy F. Roth, Past into Present: Effective Techniques
for First-Person Historical Intepretation.
*Kenneth L. Ames, Barbara Franco, and L. Thomas Frye, eds., Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibits. American Association for State and Local History 1992
*Thomas J. Schlereth, Cultural
History & Material Culture: Everyday Life, Landscapes, Museums
*Jane R. Glaser and Artemis A. Zenetou, eds., Gender Perspectives: Essays on Women in Museums. Smithsonian 1994
*Jo Blatti, ed., Past Meets Present: Essays about Historic Interpretation and Public Audiences. Smithsonian 1987
*Library Reserve
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**see also Growing Up in
****Teenage Tokyo: There are no other published materials. I have in our library the exhibit blue book -- the book of resources put together when the exhibit was being created -- but that's it. There's an now-quite out of date list of recommended resources as well.
Susan Steinway, Librarian, Harcourt Teacher Leadership
Center The Children's Museum
300 Congress Street Boston, MA 02210, phone: 617-426-6500 ext. 230 fax:
617-451-1547 www.bostonkids.org
Chicago Historical Society, Teen Project 2001-2004, in progress
***Mary Lynn Stevens Heininger, et
al, A Century of Childhood 1820-1920.
Centuries
of Childhood in New York
A celebration on the occasion of the 275th anniversary of Trinity School. New-York Historical Society and
Trinity School 1985
Jane Corkin and Gary Michael Dault, Children
in Photography: 150 Years. Firefly Books 1990
[Hongkong
Bank of Canada National Touring Exhibit]
***Amanda Dargan and Steven Zeitlin, City Play.
***Kathryn Grover, ed., Teenage New Jersey, 1941-1975.
William Graebner: Coming of Age
in
Children’s Museum Boston and Japan Forum, Teenage Tokyo****
***Boyle Heights-Project, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, 2002-2003
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/pase/bhproject/index01.htm
Childhood in Urban
Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/do_history/young_people/index.cfm
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/history-child-family.html
Collections of Images, etc.
Anne Higonnet, Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis
of Ideal Childhood. Thames & Hudson
1998
Children’s
Aid Society, New York City Street Kids. 136 photographs selected by the
Children’s Aid Society. Dover 1978
Susan Kismaric, American Children. Photographs
from the Collection of the
Joanna Smith, Edwardian Children. Hutchinson 1983 [photos and oral histories]
Helen Levitt, In the Street. Chalk Drawings and Messages, New York City, 1938-1948. Duke UP 1987
Stephen Shames, Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America. Aperture/Children’s Defense Fund 1991 [photos]
"Kids," culturefront, 4, 2 (Summer 1995) [New York Council for the Humanities]
Anuradha Vittachi, Stolen Childhood: In Search of the Rights of the Child. North-South Productions, Channel Four Television, and Polity Press 1989 [photos and texts]
David Lowenthal and Marcus Binney, eds., Our Past Before Us: Why Do We Save It?
David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country Cambridge 1985
Leila Zunderland, ed., Recycling the American Past: Popular Uses of American History. Penn 1978
Mary Hufford, ed., Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage. Illinois1994
John E. O’Connor, ed., Image as Artifact: The Historical Analysis of Film and Television. American Historical Association Institutional Services Program. Krieger 1990
David Thelen, ed., Memory and American History. Indiana 1990
John Bodnar, Remaking
John R. Gillis, ed., Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Princeton 1994
Avishai Magalit, The Ethics of Memory. Harvard 2002
“Memory and Counter-Memory,” Representations 26 (Spring 1989)
James Fentress and Chris Wickham, Social Memory. Blackwell 1998
Edith Wyschogrod, An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Namesless Others.
Chicago
1998
Jonathan Boyarin, ed., Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace. Minnesota 1994
Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, eds., The Oral History Reader Routledge 1998
Paul Thompson, The Voice of the Past: Oral History. Oxford
Michael Frisch, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. SUNY 1990
Ronald J. Grele, Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History. 2nd ed. Praeger, 1991
Trevor Lummis, Listening to History: The Authenticity of Oral Evidence. Hutchinson, 1987
Alessandro Portelli, The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. SUNY 1991
_____, The
Alan W
Richard Sandell, Museums, Society, Inequality. Routledge 2002
Mark W. Rectanus, Culture Incorporated: Museums, Artists, and Corporate Sponsorships. Minnesota 2002
Jo Blatti, ed., Past Meets Present: Essays about Historic Interpretation and Public Audiences. Smithsonian 1987
Sharon Macdonald, The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture. Routledge 1998
Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe, eds., Theorizing Museums: Representing Identity and Diversity in a Changing World. Blackwell 1996
Amy Henderson and Adrienne L. Kaeppler, eds., Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian. Smithsonian 1997
Kevin Walsh, The Representation of the Past: Museums and Heritage in the Post-Modern World. Routledge, 1992
Timothy W. Luke, Museum Politics: Power Plays at the Exhibition. Minnesota 2002
Jane R. Glaser and Artemis A. Zenetou, eds., Gender Perspectives: Essays on Women in Museums. Smithsonian 1994
Warren Leon and Roy Rosenzweig, eds., History Museums in the United States. Illinois 1989
Jonathan Zimmerman, Whose America? Cultural Wars in the Public Schools Harvard 2002
Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, eds., History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. Metropolitan Books 1996
Edward T. Linenthal, Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum. Penguin 1995
Steven C. Dubin, Displays of Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum. NYU 1999
Amy Henderson and Adrienne L. Kaeppler, eds., Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian. Smithsonian 1997
Robert Lumley, ed., The Museum Time-Machine. Routledge 1988
Page Putnam Miller, ed., Reclaiming the Past: Landmarks of Women’s History. Indiana 1992
Thomas J. Schlereth, Cultural
History & Material Culture: Everyday Life, Landscapes, Museums
Steven Lubar and W. David Kingery, ed., History from Things: Essays on Material Culture. Smithsonian 1993
This is a very brief listing. See also bibliography in Eng
7063 F
http://colfa.utsa.edu/users/hgraff/ENG7063SyllabusFA03.html
Joseph Kett, Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America. 1790 to
the Present. Basic, 1977
John Modell, Into One's Own: From Youth to Adulthood in the
United States, 1920-1975.
Beth
Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth- Century
America. Johns Hopkins, 1988
Reed Ueda,
Avenues to Adulthood: The Origins of the High School in an American Suburb.
Cambridge UP, 1987
Grace P
Eric Schneider, Vampires. Dragons. and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York. Princeton, 1999
Viviana
Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing
Social Value of Children. Basic, 1985;
reprint Princeton 1994
Gary
Cross, Kid's Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood.
Harvard UP, 1997
*Robin
Kelley, "Kickin' Reality, Kickin'
B
Richard
Griswold del Castillo, La familla:
Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to the Present (Notre Dame,
1984), esp. Ch. 6 “Childrearing”
George
Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American. ..Los Angeles. 1900-1945. Oxford,
1995
David K. Yoo, Growing Up Nisei. 1924-1949. Illinois, 2000
Douglas Monroy, Mexican
Harvey J. Graff, ed., Growing Up in America: Historical Experiences. Wayne State, 1987
N. Ray Hiner and Joseph M. Hawes, eds., Growing Up in America: Children in Historical Perspective. Illinois, 1985