HON 120S - History Road Trip

This course examines the process by which historical figures and events are commenorated and memorialized. Maine’s monuments will serve as our case study. Over four weeks, we will visit 8 monuments across the state to analyze the historical figures being memorialized and the era in which the memorials were built. Local experts will be on hand to discuss the various monuments and to recommend archives that might help unpack the process by which history and memory become part of the built environment. In travel days, we will hold our seminar en route to and from the memorial. These “traveling seminars” may be recorded, edited, and posted online as a podcasts. Non-travel days will be dedicated to analyzing theoretical texts on commenmoration, reading case studies of monuments in otherr locations, and interviewing historians well versed in the process of commemoration. Course Typically Offered: Every other May term.

Prerequisite(s): None.

Credits: 4