History 275 - The Craft of History

Spring
2026
01
4.00
Jennifer Heuer

M W 2:30PM 3:45PM

UMass Amherst
78947
Herter Hall room 206
heuer@history.umass.edu
This course provides history majors with an introduction to the philosophy of history, historical methodology, and general schools of historiography. We will consider how historians inside and outside the academy pose questions, and how they find, select, evaluate, interpret, and analyze evidence in order to propose answers to those questions. Finally, we will reflect as well upon questions about the purposes and goals of both studying and writing history.

1 History course

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.