HIST 575 - History and Genealogy

This course introduces students to the uses and cultural importance of family history, while also training them in the techniques of doing genealogy. They will study genealogy and its relationship to nostalgia, ethnicity, regionalism, slavery, race, and national identity, learning how family history and genealogy have been deployed in various ways by different groups at different times - from elite families in colonial British America, to the new bourgeoisie of nineteenth-century America, to slaves and freed African Americans in era of Civil War, to new “white ethnic” groups in the twentieth century, to minority and marginal people in our modern day.

Prerequisites Acceptance into the History MA program or acceptance into the ABM concentration in Public History.

Credits 3