Dr. Margaret Menninger
Office: TMH-230
Email: mm48@txstate.edu
Phone: (512)245-2188
Margaret Eleanor Menninger was born in Cambridge, England, and grew up in Eugene, Oregon, and Iowa City, Iowa. She received her A.B. with honors from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1986. Menninger was a Rotary Scholar at Georg-August Universität in Göttingen in 1986-87. Upon her return to the United States, Menninger worked in publishing for both Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston and Carl Hanser Verlag in Germany. She received her A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991 and 1998 respectively where her research was supported by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. Menninger has given papers at conferences in Canada, England, Germany and the United States. Her current project, entitled Performing Civil Society: Cultural Philanthropy in Nineteenth-century Germany is a study of the origins of arts funding and its relationship to civil society, regional identity and bourgeois culture in Saxony. Menninger also has additional interests in the social history of music, cultural diplomacy and the history of Scandinavia, particularly Iceland. She is also an enthusiastic chamber musician.
Classes Taught :
History 2312 - World History since 1300
History 2312 is a general introduction to the history of the world since the seventeenth century, focusing primarily on political and social history. Students will gain a broad chronological overview of world historical events including the establishment of European hegemony over Africa and Latin America, the rise of the modern state, the European Enlightenment and eighteenth-century Revolutions, Industrialization and the second wave of colonialism, the rise of socialism, fascism, the cold war and the post-modern world.
History 3311 - Europe since 1919
This intermediate lecture course considers European history since 1919. Primary themes covered will include nationalism and its construction, conflicts between ideals of liberal capitalism and those of planned economies, conflicts between ideals of political control of the many vs. political control of the few and questions about the European identity.
HON 3393J - Sex, Drugs and Cabaret: Europe, 1880-1914
This writing-intensive seminar considers European life in the years around 1900. Using historical, literary, musical and visual sources, the participants will explore some of the social, cultural and political tensions inherent in the time of "high" modernism. Themes will include the urban experience, nationalism and anti-Semitism, and explorations of sexuality in social science, law and the arts.
HON 3390V - Freud in Vienna
This writing-intensive Honors seminar is a study of one European city, Vienna, at the turn of the last century. Using historical, philosophical, psychological, literary, musical and visual sources, the participants will explore some of the social, cultural and political tensions inherent in Viennese life. Particular emphasis will be given to the works of Sigmund Freud, but other themes will include the urban experience, nationalism and anti-Semitism, and explorations of sexuality in social science, law and the arts.
History 4336 - Germany, 1815-2000
This course surveys the forces that have shaped German history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is organized chronologically. We begin by examining German territory in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. Then, we look at the German Empire from its creation in 1871 to its collapse in 1918. We then turn our focus to the Weimar Republic, asking both what it achieved and why it eventually failed. The years of National Socialist rule from 1933 to 1945 occupy our attention next. We will explore both how the Nazis came to power and what they did while in power. Finally, we will examine Germany since 1945, considering both Germanies from the Cold War to reunification in 1990.
History 4337 - Germany and National Socialism, 1918-1945
This is an intermediate survey course of German history and the Nazi movement. Topics covered will include the Weimar Republic, Hitler's rise to power, everyday life in Nazi Germany in peace and war and the Holocaust.
History 5310 - Europe 1815-present (graduate course)
In 2004, this course will examine the forces that have shaped modern German history in the long nineteenth and the short twentieth centuries. Continuities as well as the discontinuities of this history provide a major theme, particularly the roots of the Nazi period and the question of how far the two postwar Germanies broke with the past. Beyond introducing the central events of German history, the class will consider some of the main lines of debate among historians, discuss major overarching themes and investigate different historiographical and evidentiary sources.
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H-German List Serve
Editorial: Bad Movies, Good History
Exhibit Review: Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity
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