Lecture 15: Millenium

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· What are the two types of historical explanation noted by Tocqueville? Which type is employed by democratic historians?

· Based on Tocqueville's definitions, and on what you have heard thus far, is the instructor of this course a democratic historian?

Assignments
Tocqueville	In Tocqueville read Chapter 25, “Some Characteristics of Historians in Democratic Times.” Chapter 25 is concerned with how historians explain things—with causation, in other words. There are ideas here that relate to concepts I use in Lecture 15—and to the whole approach to teaching and learning History. · How does an aristocratic historian explain things? · How does a democratic historian explain things?
WWW	NASA, Apollo 11 30^th Anniversary Site – historical material, including interviews with astronauts
	Bowling Alone – website devoted to Putnam’s book and to the renewal of social capital in the 21^st century
Film Review	2001: A Space Odyssey
	Apollo 13
	All the President’s Men
	The Last Picture Show
Book	McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
	Putnam, Bowling Alone
	Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man
	Morris, Dutch

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