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Join Professor Aditya Chaturvedi in What Is History?, a course that examines how historians have understood and written about the past across time. Moving beyond a single definition, the course introduces key schools of historiography and influential thinkers like G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and E. H. Carr, while exploring themes such as postcolonialism, gender, memory, and power. Through close reading, discussion, and writing, students will engage with fundamental questions about truth, interpretation, and the nature of reality, making this course ideal for anyone looking to deeply understand what history is and how it is constructed.
Join Professor Aditya Chaturvedi in What Is History?, a course that examines how historians have understood and written about the past across time. Moving beyond a single definition, the course introduces key schools of historiography and influential thinkers like G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and E. H. Carr, while exploring themes such as postcolonialism, gender, memory, and power. Through close reading, discussion, and writing, students will engage with fundamental questions about truth, interpretation, and the nature of reality, making this course ideal for anyone looking to deeply understand what history is and how it is constructed.
