History

Order Description 1. Make a scholarly argument about history. Use ideas and information from your research to frame a historiographic debate/discussion and then to support the position that you take in that conversation. Some examples from class would include: Michel Foucaut's argument that historians find more mental asylums being build in the 1600s because it was a "Great Confinement" -- an effort to control different types of people during the Age of Absolutism. Roy Porter had a more moderate view. In the 1600s, the Puritans' religious beliefs created a type of internal world (of thoughts and feelings) that generated modern anxiety (agree or disagree). Freud's experiences growing up as Jewish influenced the evolution of his psychoanalytic theories. Support a crtique or revision of Freud (perhaps Karen Horney's discussion of sexism).