21-22 APEH 10-19-21

Wednesday, October 20, 2021: INSTEAD OF MEETING- Because so very many of you will be gone on Wednesday, and because the subjects below need our attention, please read the Outline below and view the entirety of both videos. BE READY TO BE QUIZZED ON THE BASICS OF THIS NEXT WEEK.
"Historiography"
I. Definitions & Uses
II. Classical/Traditional
A. Ancient
1. Herodotus
2. Thucydides
B. Medieval
1. The Venerable Bede
2. Chroniclers (ex., "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle")
C. Early Modern
-. Renaissance Divisions between Medieval & Modern
D. Antiquarians
-. Edward Gibbon ("Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire")
E. Professionalization
-. Leopold von Ranke
III. High Modern
A. Hegel
1. Zeitgeist
2. The Dialectic
B. Marx
1. Periods of History
2. Materialism
3. Socio-Economic Class
4. Utopianism/Communism
C. Modernity/"Whiggish"
1. Technophilic
2. Max Weber
3. Niall Ferguson
IV. Contemporary/Left-Leaning
A. "Pragmatism"
1. Charles Beard
2. "The Current Truth"
B. "Consensus"
1. Cold War Era
2. Consensus within the West
C. Neo-Liberal
1. Focus on the Individual
2. De-emphasis on Society
E. Myriad Iterations of the Left
1. Allales School- New Social History/Culture over Society
-. Social Functionalism
2. Microhistory- Seeing the whole in its parts
3. Gramsci- Cultural Hegemony
4. Frankfurt School- Popular Culture supports Capitalism; they are critical of this
5. 1960s "New Left"
a. "Hippie" Non-Violent Anti-Traditionalism (today, they run Academia)
b. Revisionist Historians
6. Feminism- Against "the Patriarchy"
7. Post-Colonialism
a. Frantz Fannon ("Wretched of the Earth")
b. W. E. B. DuBois
c. Anti-Western/Anti-"Imperialist"
8. Transnationalism- De-emphasizes Nations/Nation/States
9. Post-Modernism- Against Reality
a. Michel Foucault
b. the concept of "just a social construct"
10. Post-Revisionism- Questioning any Truth or shared sense of meaning
V. "Standards of the Profession"
A. Leftist
B. Herd Mentality
VI. What we will deal with- HISTORICAL CONTROVERSIES