A History of History
This course, designed for all third-year History honours students, will introduce them to the evolving nature of
historical scholarship and to various genres and uses of history. We will explore for this purpose a series of studies,
some classic and others more recent, that provide models and illustrate different approaches to writing and thinking
about history. Drawing on a variety of materials, from conventional narrative histories to theoretical reflections to
sources other than written texts, we will consider history and historical methods as they have been conceived,
disseminated, and challenged over time; questions of methodology and interpretation; genre and narrative; and the
politics of memory.