Books:
Required Field Trip: Riksarkivet (Date to be Scheduled)
Pensum for Reading:
• Pamphlet: o Linda Gordon, U.S. Women’s History (The New American History series, revised and expanded), (American Historical Assn and Temple University Press, 1997) ISBN: 0-87229-095-6. (28 pp). • Internet: o T. V. Reed, “Theory and Method in American/Cultural Studies: A Bibliographic Essay,” http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/tm/bib.html (Read for overview of field and questions, not to memorize specifics.)
• Compendium:
Del 1: (Optional) Luther S. Luedtke, “The Search for American Character,” in Luther S. Luedtke, ed., Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States, (Washington, D.C.: USIA Forum Series, 1987) 7-34.
• Allen F. Davis, “American Studies: The View from Europe,” American Quarterly 40:3 (1988) 409-414.
• Quarterly 36:3 (1984) 343-358.
• John Higham, “Multiculturalism and Universalism: A History and Critique,” AmQ 45:2 (1993) 195-219.
• Gary Gerstle, “The Limits of American Universalism,” AmQ 45:2 (1993) 230-236.
• Nancy A. Hewitt, “A response to John Higham,” AmQ 45:2 (1993) 237-248.
• Michael Kammen, “The Problem of American Exceptionalism: A Reconsideration,” American Quarterly 45:1 (March 1993) 1-43
• H. V. Nelles, “American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword,” American Historical Review 102:3 (June 1997) 749-757.
• Ian Tyrrell, “American Exceptionalism in an Age of International History,” American Historical Review 96:4 (October 1991) 1031-1055.
• Trompenaars, Fons, “The Meaning of Culture,” Riding the Waves of Culture. Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business. London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing. 1993. 21-28.
• Betty S. Anderson and Carol Berkin, “What is Plagiarism and When Would I Be Cheating on My Paper?” and “What Information Do I Have to Cite?” The History Handbook. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. 2003. 98-102, 104-106.
• Dorothy Burton Skårdal, Literary Documents in Social History, Examples from Scandinavian-American Literature 1-15.
• John Hollitz, “The Truth About Textbooks. Indians and the Settlement of America,” Thinking through the Past. A Critical Thinking Approach to U.S. History. 3rd edition. 2005.
• Yngve Nedrebø, “How to Trace Your Ancestors in Norway.” 1993. 5-31. (Riksarkivet).
o Del 2:
Henry Nash Smith, “Can ‘American Studies’ Develop a Method?” American Quarterly 9 (1957) 197-208.
Leo Marx, “American Studies – A Defense of an Unscientific Method,” Reprint from New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation (University of Virginia) 1:1 (1969) 75-90.
Gene Wise, “’Paradigm Dramas’ in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement,” American Quarterly 31:3 (1979) 293-337.
Brian Attebery, “American Studies: A Not So Unscientific Method,” American Quarterly 48 (1996) 316-343.
Allen F. Davis, “The Politics of American Studies,” American Quarterly 42:3 (1990) 353-374.
Philip Gleason, “World War II and the Development of American Studies,” American Quarterly 36:3 (1984) 343-358.
Laurence Veysey, “The Autonomy of American History Reconsidered,” AmQ 31:4 (1979)
Joel Hodson, “’Intercourse in every direction’: America as global phenomenon,” Global Networks: A Journal of transnational affairs 1:1 (Jan 2001) 79-87.
Carl N. Degler, “Does Land Make a People?” Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America (NY: Harper Colophon Books, Harper & Row, 1970).
o Del 3:
John Scott, A Matter of Record: Documentary Sources in Social Research, pp. 19-35.
Pat Hudson, History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches, pp. 6-24.
Carl N. Degler, At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present, Preface and Ch 18 (vi-ix, 436-473).
William H. Chafe, “The Paradox of Progress,” in Friedman et al, Our American Sisters, pp. 515-530.
Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left, (Ch 9) pp., 212-232.
Cynthia E. Harrison, “A ‘New Frontier’ for Women: The Public Policy of the Kennedy Administration,” from The Journal of American History 67 (Dec 1980), Reprinted in Jean E. Friedman etal, Our American Sisters: Women in American Life and Thought, 4th ed. Pp 493-514.
Rose Baxandall and Linda Gordon, Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation Movement, pp 21-23 and 28-29.
Jo Freeman, ed., Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, pp 8-30.
Pamela D. H. Cochran, Evangelical Feminism: A History, Ch 2 (pp 11-31).
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, “African-American Women’s History and the Meta-language of Race,” Signs 17:2 (Wtr) 251-274.
Major Problems in American Women’s History, Ch 15 (pp. 427-475).
Daniel Horowitz, “Rethinking Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique: Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America,” Ch 32 in Unequal Sisters, 3rd ed. Pp 492-518.
Reference works, which are pensum: • Strunk & White, The Elements of Style; • Dorothy Burton Skårdal, Rules for Writing English. • Lester James D. Lester & James D. Lester, Jr., Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guide 11th ed. NY: Pearson Longman, 2005., especially chapter on plagiarism. • MLA Handbook OR Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations;
Research Tools Students must be familiar with: o BIBSYS o Library of Congress o America: History and Life (cd-rom/bound library index). o Social Science Citation Index (ISI) o ERIC and other specific databases o Book Review Digest o Book Review Index o Historical Abstracts • Organizations: Familiarize yourself with these: ASANOR NAAS EAAS ASA OAH AHA • Conferences: Purposes and Opportunities Expanding Horizons ASANOR Other conferences • Journals: Familiarize yourself with these: American Quarterly American Studies in Scandinavia Journal of American History American Historical Review other subject appropriate journals • Websites: Know what is available through these: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/ http://www.hf.uio.no/iba/amciv/ http://www.loc.gov http://www.usa.no http://www.firstgov.gov http://www.fulbright.no www.google.com and other basic web search engines • H-net