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HIST 573 001 (CRN: 16173)
POLITICS OF HISTORY & ARCHIVE
Long Title: THE POLITICS OF HISTORY AND THE ARCHIVE
Department: History
Instructor: Ward, Kerry
Meeting: 2:00PM - 4:30PM W (24-AUG-2026 - 4-DEC-2026)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Section Max Enrollment: 15
Section Enrolled: 2
Enrollment data as of: 26-APR-2026 11:59AM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: This theory course concerns historical knowledge and the practices of doing History. Topics may include: the construction of historical knowledge; the construction of historical ignorance and agnotology; the construction of archives and the relationship between History and archives; textual vs non-textual archives; changing approaches to what History studies or what counts as history. Some of the themes of the course may include what is an archive? What is its relationship to power and Western and non-Western ways of knowing and evidence? Could an archive be a shrine, spirit possession, or non-government sanctioned and curated? Could or should an historian jettison the archive?