http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/ 2005-08-05T15:13:17-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/08/office_hours_fo.html For Fall 2005 I'll be keeping office hours (237 HB Crouse) most Tuesdays 2-4 p.m. and Thursdays 9-10:40. I'll also have some IM office hours (AIM = ProfBfromWV) that will vary from one week to another and that will be... Becky senioritis 2005-08-05T15:13:17-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/05/for_extra_credi.html Tyra and I watched the film The Final Cut last night, and it actually relates to, of all people, Hayden White. Robin Williams plays a "cutter" in the near future who is responsible for editing the footage of people's lives... Ty trobryan 2005-05-16T12:36:13-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/04/why_painter.html More than one person has asked on more than one occasion why we're reading Painter. Honestly, it's taken me awhile to figure out the answer, because to me it's too obvious, functioning on the level of foundational assumption. Hence I've... Texts]]> senioritis 2005-04-23T21:16:16-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/04/1963continued.html Here are my contributions to the conversation we were having today in class regarding other events that occurred that year... the death of W.E.B. DuBois; Martin Luther King; the first 2 Black students are admitted to the University of Alabama;... dvaldesd 2005-04-14T22:00:45-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/04/background_on_c.html In looking through a book on methodology, I ran across an article by Bob Connors entitled Dreams and Play: Historical Method and Methodology in which he discusses some of his intentions in the book we're reading now.... Robert Connors clostran 2005-04-14T15:19:11-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/04/rererevised_tim.html Okay. Here's what I've come up with: First draft for a peer edit: 5/12 Draft for treasured professor: 6/2 Final paper: 6/14... dvaldesd 2005-04-10T17:37:15-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/04/rerevised_timel.html First draft ready for classmate to analyze: 4/28 Final draft ready for RP to grade: 5/14 Analysis of classmate's draft: as assigned... Vanessa vwatts 2005-04-09T12:08:40-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/04/navigation_remi.html When you're trying to find assignments, etc., always start on the course homepage. Practically everything you want to find is linked there and easy to find.... Course guidelines]]> senioritis 2005-04-01T14:46:14-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/04/individuation_o.html Okay, here's a first draft of what we talked about in class yesterday. This constitutes an update of the project timetable that had previously been posted. Please tell me what I've forgotten or misremembered, or what we forgot to consider... Projects]]> senioritis 2005-04-01T11:50:10-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/04/public_memory_p.html FYI, here's what I mentioned in class yesterday: my proposal (as part of a panel proposal) to the SU Public Memories conference: Speaker #3: "Understanding Public Forgetting: Michel de Certeau and Hayden White on Presence and Erasure" Michel de Certeau's... Becky senioritis 2005-04-01T11:47:07-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/03/my_professor_is.html Carolyn's allusion to self-gonging in her comments on another entry gives me pause. First let me say that I hope never again to have a car wreck at the beginning of a semester. Second let me say that if I... Becky senioritis 2005-03-27T19:02:05-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/03/alexander_bain.html Who knew? Alexander Bain is not only the guy who brings you the now-notorious rhetorical modes of narration, description, exposition, and argument; he's also the guy who brings you the FAX: All of this has come too late to benefit... Background sources senioritis 2005-03-27T18:46:29-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/03/beckys_research.html Judith Butler (Social Text 20.3) draws away from a causal connection between terrorism and poverty, preferring to speak of one as the "condition" of the other. Certeau (The Writing of History, Ch. 2), limning the relationship between disciplines and institutions,... Becky senioritis 2005-03-27T12:21:24-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/03/abstract_enough.html OK, I understand y'all didn't actually do this whole exercise as a group thing, but I did it when I thought you were, so it's here, and probably functions as a much better "overview" of my project than anything else... Carolyn clostran 2005-03-26T00:14:54-05:00 http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/historybump/archives/2005/03/topicstopoicomm.html Lexicon senioritis 2005-03-22T09:16:54-05:00