HIST 690: Digital History Methods

This seminar will focus on the process of creating, evaluating, and implementing digital history for teaching, research, and museum purposes. The course readings, workshops, and discussions will expose students to the history of information technologies as well the philosophical, practical, and controversial aspects of the emerging field of Digital History. The course will also involve hands-on production and evaluation of digital history projects, including the UNH-produced HOSLAC website (History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean, www.hoslac.org), as well as original student projects.

THE UNITED STATES & ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is the longest-running conflict in modern history. While unfolding over an area the size of New Jersey, its influence has been felt across the globe for over a century. This is true not least in the United States, where powerful constituencies organize for or against one side or the other, and where staunch support for Israel is a requirement of getting elected president. Indeed, the United States has been deeply involved in this conflict since before the founding of Israel in 1948. Since the 1970s, Israel has been America’s closest ally in the region and the recipient of hundreds of billions of dollars of aid, despite the risk of angering the influential oil producers of the Arab Gulf. This senior colloquium homes in on the mutual influence that runs between the United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. But more important, through an exploration of scholarly debates and available primary sources, the course provides students with the opportunity to become, for the first time, not mere consumers, but producers of history. The best essays will be selected for presentation at UNH’s signature Undergraduate Research Conference in the spring. Fulfills the Group I or II requirement for the History Major.