HIST 2482 - [Recovering the Black Past]

(HST-AS)

Spring. Not offered: 2024-2025. Next offered: 2026-2027. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Public History Minor core course.

T. Nunley.

Recovering the Black Past is a public history seminar that focuses on the ways that African American history emerges in the broader public with an examination of the origins the events and initiatives that ultimately led to the creation of museums and broader forms of popular engagement with the Black past. In addition to relevant historiographical scholarship, course sessions will focus on different modes of analysis including textual, visual, sonic and sensory forms of exploration. Students will leverage the resources of the university archives, the art museum, and digital sources to build these experiences into the seminar. This course will include assignments that invite students to write scholarly reviews of exhibits and develop their own project that engages a particular aspect of African American public history. (HNA)