History 333, 001 Third year seminar: (Full-year, September 2021 to April 2022)
Instructor: Prof. W. French wfrench@mail.ubc.ca
Telling Stories, Seeking Truths
This course focuses on narrative to consider some of the ways that history and historical methods have been
conceived and challenged over time. It is concerned with the borders between history and fiction; with historical
theory and methods of historical inquiry; with the nature of narrative and how it works; with different approaches to
writing and thinking about history; and with what is at stake in the production of historical knowledge