William Breitenbach
BA, Harvard, 1971
M Phil, PhD, Yale, 1975, 1978
William Breitenbach teaches U.S. history from the colonial period through the Civil War, including courses on early American autobiography, the Revolution, Transcendentalism, Lincoln, and intellectual history to 1865. He also teaches the historical methods course. His scholarly interests are the theologian Jonathan Edwards and the utopian John Humphrey Noyes.
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My courses:
History 200, "Doing History"
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History 351, "Early American Biography"
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History 371, "American Intellectual History to 1865"
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Humanities 122, "Utopia/Dystopia"
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Materials pertaining to all of my courses
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How to take reading notes
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How to read a primary source
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How to read a secondary source
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How to do the reading in historiographical courses
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Writing History papers





