HIST 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Joyce Appleby, Peculiar Institution, Iconic Memory
Lecture Notes
Academic History
Textbooks (Montoya)
Not terribly relevant due to wikipedia
Content that a professional historian thinks you should know
Professional historian who takes a whole bunch of material from their studies to provide it for a
student audience
Journal articles (Cobbs/Blum)
Short pieces where historian use primary sources to make arguments
Monographs (Color of Christ)
Longer pieces where historians use primary sources to make a bigger argument
Personal —> scholars (what do other scholars care about) —> Historiography (study of historical writing, what
scholars do) —> brooder society (Scholars are influneced by this)
This is circular
Essays
David Armitage, "The Declaration of Independence in World Context"
Things happening in the world to influence a scholar to go to a topic, but with new eyes/approach
Christopher Paul Magra, "The Fisherman's Cause:Atlantic Commerce and Maritime…"
Joyce Appleby, "Europeans' New World"
A time in History where an event creates curiosity
A new world was made for the Europeans, argues thats what caused the scientific revolution
Public History
Civil War Museum (Pennsylvania)
House divided - speech from Lincoln before presidency
Peculiar institution - slavery
3–9 - all about military stuff
Civil war music - culture
Cost of war - might be economic, life, environmental, psychological
Only one individual named in the floor plan, Lincoln
Becomes the iconic memory holder of the war
African American History and Culture (Smithsonian)
Paradox of liberty
King cotton - rise of cotton growing
Domestic slave trade
Great migration
Emmett Till memorial - one person named
Died of lynching
To present history
Include some stories, excludes some
