Thinking With History

Welcome to Eric Oberle's minimalist web page for courses taught at Arizona State University!
Though this website is primarily for students currently enrolled in my classes, I welcome old friends of all sorts. (Welcome especially to former students from Santa Clara,Stanford, and Wash U--please keep in touch!)

Coursework Site for Arizona State University Courses

Spring 2023: IDS 312, Debt: Philosophy, Society, History (Perspectives on Change)

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Spring 2023 IDS 312: Law and American Institutions I

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Fall 2022: IDS 312, Debt: Philosophy, Society, History (Perspectives on Change)

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Fall 2022 IDS 312: Law and American Institutions

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Spring 2022: IDS 312, Debt: Philosophy, Society, History (Perspectives on Change)

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Spring 2022: History 321, Constitutional Law to Reconstruction

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Fall 2021: History 322, Constitutional Law Since Reconstruction

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Fall 2021: IDS 312, Debt: Philosophy, Society, History (Perspectives on Change)

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Spring 2020: History 322, Constitutional Law Since Reconstruction

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Sring 2020: IDS 312, Debt: Philosophy, Society, History (Perspectives on Change)

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Fall 2019: History 103, Western Civilization Medieval to Enlightenment

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Fall 2019: History 318, History of Engineering

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Spring 2019: History 104, Western Civilization since the Enlightenment

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Spring 2019: History 380, History of Science

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Fall 2018: Honors 394, Writing Colloquium

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Fall 2018: Hon 194: Mastering the Honors Experience

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Fall 2018: History 103: Medieval to Renaissance

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Fall 2018: History 355: Total War and the Crisis of Modernity

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Spring 2018: History 381: History of Human Rights

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Spring 2018: Honors 272, Modernity

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Fall 2017: History 103, Western Civilization II

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Fall 2017: HON 171, The Human Event

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Fall 2017: HON 394, Writing Colloquium

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Fall 2017: HON 194, Mastering the Honors Experience

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Spring 2017: Honors 394, Existentialism and Critical Theory

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Spring 2017: History 394, History of Privacy and Information Technology

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Fall 2016: Honors 194, Mastering the Honors Experience

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Fall 2016: Honors 394, Writing Colloquium

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Spring 2016: Honors 272, The Human Event

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Fall 2015: Honors 171, The Human Event

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Fall 2015: Honors 370, History of Ideas

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Fall 2015: Honors 394, Writing Colloquium

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Fall 2015: Honors 194, Mastering the Honors Experience

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Coursework Site for Arizona State University Courses

Spring 2015: Honors 272, The Human Event

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Spring 2015: Honors 394, Writing Colloquium II

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Fall 2014: Honors 171, The Human Event

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Fall 2014: Honors 194, Mastering the Honors Experience

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Fall 2014: Honors 370, History of Ideas

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Fall 2014: Honors 294, Writing Colloquium

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The Schedule for the Barrett Polytech Tutorial Center is to be found here.

Coursework Site for Previous Classes at Arizona State University


Spring 2014: Honors 272, The Human Event

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Fall 2013: Honors 171, The Human Event

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Fall 2013: Honors 394, History of Ideas

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Fall 2013: Honors 194, Mastering the Honors Experience

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Spring 2013: Honors 272, The Human Event

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Spring 2013: Honors 394, The Existentialist Moment

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Fall 2012: Honors 171, The Human Event

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Spring 2012: Total War and the Crisis of Modernity

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Spring 2012: Historical Methods

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Fall 2011: Western Civilization: The Ancient World of the Oikumene

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Fall 2011: European Culture and Imagination: Enlightenment, Revolution, Romanticism, Capital >

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Spring 2011: Western Civilization: The Ancient World of the Oikumene

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Spring 2011: European Culture and Imagination in the Twenteith Century>

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Coursework Site for Washington University in Saint Louis courses (2008-2010)

Spring 2010: History 344/544 Thinking the Post-War World: European Intellectual History 1945-Present

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Spring 2010: English Literature/History 420: The Literary-Historical: Interdisciplinary Methods in the Humanities (with Steve Zwicker)

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Spring 2009-History 443 European Intellectual History 1890-1940: Social, Philosophical and Aesthetic Modernity.

The Syllabus is available here.


Fall 2008-Literature 142: Myth and Modernity: Literature and Belief "After the Death of God"



Current students will have instructions for the website's use on their syllabus. Look under the heading Using Thinking With History for the first Time.
For former students, the course forum and private messaging systems still work, should you be interested in getting in touch with one another.
If you wish to contact me, please use my email address at Washington University (eoberle ---am-per-sand--- artsci.wustl.edu). Thanks!




Coursework Site for Santa Clara University courses (2005-8)

To join class discussion or download course materials, please proceed to the coursework class for:
history 11,Fall 2008 1pm
history 11, Fall 2008 2:15pm
history 12 Winter 2008, 11:50 am
history 12 Winter 2008, 3:40 pm
history 13 Spring 2008, 9:15, 11:45, 2:15 sections


Coursework Site for Stanford University courses (2004-2008)

history 138: Romanticism and the Market
Liberalism and its Discontents (Stanford)
Social Thought and Critical Theory in the Twentieth Century (Stanford)
The Enlightenment: Historical and Critical Approaches (Stanford)




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