HIST 840
SYLLABUS
WEEKLY DISCUSSION MATERIALS
COURSE MATERIALS

CHILDREN

Videos:

Pompeii: Upper Class Meets Working Class (partly animated; 5:44 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJmmzD4CG7k

The House of Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii (Lund University, 2:44 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETd7pszxhnc

Pompeii – Life and Death with Mary Beard (59 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0zBG5R7TXU

Excavations at Joya de Ceren, El Salvador (1:10 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaAmo23GBmE

 

 

Readings:

Moore, The Prehistory of Home, Chapters 10-11 (“Home Fires;” “Going Home”), pp. 180-219

Bryson, At Home, Chapter 18 (“The Nursery”), pp. 566-604

Ferguson, Eliza. “The Cosmos of the Paris Apartment: Working-Class Family Life in the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Urban History 37 (2011): 59-67.