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Instructors: Torsten Kathke
Event type:
online: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.210
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
1776: The Age and the Memory of the American Revolution
The American Revolution was a defining even in the history of North America, and globally as well, embedded within an "Age of Revolutions" (Eric Hobsbawm). This class looks at the run-up to the revolution, the revolution itself and its aftermath, and also at how the American Revolution was remembered from shortly after it had occurred to the present day. In this class, we will read sources from the era of the Revolution, secondary texts concerning aspects of its history and historiography, and discuss how its memory has been used, abused, and instrumentalized throughout the centuries—most memorably in recent years in the “1776 Report,“ an ideological parting shot fired by the outgoing Trump administration.
This class will be taught online using the Moodle/LMS platform. (Please sign up for our class there if you are not signed up to it already automatically). Materials for our class will be uploaded there every week, in addition to primary and secondary sources that we will all read and links to further information.
There will be online meetings using Big Blue Button at the seminar starting time given in Jogustine. We are aiming at an about hour-long meeting during which sources and texts will be discussed and questions can be answered. Attendance and participation will count as "active participation," alternatively activities in Moodle/LMS will count towards this as well.
Office hours will be offered using Skype for Business by appointment, typically on Wednesdays from 10–11.
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