Howard Stoner Course Materials Collection, 1994-2017

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Series I: Art History, 1994-2005

This series consists of syllabi, bibliographies of recommended readings, hand-outs from lectures and museum visits, slide lists, and instructions for written assignments and exams. In a few instances, Stoner also collected syllabi from years other than the one he when he had enrolled. The courses represented in the series primarily consist of undergraduate lectures but also includes graduate lectures and graduate seminars. The curriculum concentrates but does not exclusively focus on classical art and European painting until 1900.



Box 1 American Art and Culture, 2002 Fall

(BC3642, Elizabeth Hutchinson)


American Painters in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 1997 Spring

(W4580, Allen Staley)


Archaeological Theory and Practice, 2001 Spring

(W4001, Joanna S. Smith)


Archaic Greek Art and Architecture, 2004 Fall

(G6247, Clemente Marconi)


Art in the Age of Reformation, 2000 Spring

(W4480, Keith Moxey)


Art Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Art, 2000 Spring

(C1121, Caroline Wamsler)


Art of the Later Middle Ages, 2004 Spring

(BC3342, Thomas Dale)


Collecting, 2004 Spring

(W4850, Anne Higonnet)


Dutch Art and Society in the Seventeenth Century, 1996 Spring

(W3505, Thomas Dale)


Early Christian and Early Medieval Art, 1995 Fall

(BC3551, Jane Rosenthal)


Early Victorian Painting, 1837-1861, 1995 Spring

(G4623, Allen Staley)


From Neoclassicism to Romanticism: German Painting and the Politics of Identity, 1763-1848, 2003 Spring

(G4560, Cordula Grewe)


Greek Art and Architecture, 1996 Fall

(V3249, Richard Brilliant)


Hellenistic Art, 1998 Spring

(G4225, Andrew Stewart)


History of Photography, 2005 Spring

(BC3673, Benjamin Buchloh)


Impressionism, 2003 Spring

(BC3663, Anne Higgonet)


Italian Renaissance Painting I: The Fifteenth Century, 1997 Fall

(V3400, James Beck)


Italian Renaissance Painting II: The Sixteenth Century, 1995 Spring

(V3437, David Rosand)


Modern Art and Tradition, 2000 Fall

(G6642, Theodore Reff)


Nineteenth-Century Painting, 1994 Fall

(W3600, Allen Staley)


Painting in Britain, 1860-1914, 1998 Spring

(unknown course number, Allen Staley)



Box 2 Post-Impressionism, 1999 Fall

(G6335, Theodore Reff)


Pre-Raphaelitism, 1995 Fall

(unknown course number, Allen Staley)


Realism and Impressionism, 1998 Fall

(G4680, Theodore Reff)


Renaissance Venice, 1997 Fall

(G6460, David Rosand)


Roman Art and Architecture, 1997 Spring

(V3250, Natalie Kampen)


Roman Art II: Augustus to the Flavians, 1996 Fall

(G6271, Richard Brilliant)


Roman Art III: Trajan to Constantine, 1997 Fall

(G6273, Richard Brilliant)


Seventeenth-Century Art, 1997 Fall

(V3200, Alexander Vergara)


Twentieth-Century Art, 2002 Spring

(W3650, Rosalind Krauss)

Series II: Architecture, 1994-2006

This series consists of syllabi, reading lists, hand-outs from lectures and walking tours, slide lists, and instructions for written assignments and exams. Most courses represented in the series were taught under the auspices of the Art History department, though a few lectures from the Architecture department appear as well. The curriculum focuses on European architecture from the medieval period until 1900 and American architecture, with a particular emphasis on New York City. Materials from an Introduction to Architecture course taken in Fall 2001 include lecture notes from September 12th, 2001, when the professor revised the syllabus to add a lecture on "The Skyscraper" in response to the World Trade Center attacks.


American Architecture Before 1876, 2006 Fall

(ARCH A4341, Andrew S. Dolkart)


The American City: Urban Form and City Planning, 2002 Fall

(AHIS C3643, Hilary Ballon)


The American City: Urban Forms and Social Patterns, 2005 Fall

(AHIS 3643, Hilary Ballon)


Architecture 1750-1890, 2003 Fall

(W3833, Barry Bergdoll)


Architectural History and Development of New York City, 2006 Spring

(ARCH A6705, Andrew S. Dolkart)


The Architecture of New York City, 1994 Summer

(ARCH S3605, Donald Reynolds)


Baroque and Rococo Architecture, 1600-1750, 2004 Spring

(AHIS W4443, Hilary Ballon)



Box 3 Gothic Architecture, 2001 Fall

(AHIS 4537, Stephen Murray) (3 folders)


Introduction to Architecture, 2001 Fall

(AHIS 3001, Joseph Connors) (2 folders)


Italian Renaissance Architecture, 2001 Spring

(AHIS 4418, Joseph Connors)

Series III: Music, 2009-2011

This series consists of syllabi, listening guides, lecture hand-outs, and instructions for written assignments and exams from undergraduate survey lectures in music history. Lecture hand-outs include excerpts from libretti annotated by the professor.


The Opera, 2009 Fall

(V2025, Karen Henson)


The Operas of Verdi, 2010 Spring

(V3136, Karen Henson)


The Music of Brahms, 2010 Spring

(V3138, Walter Frisch)


The Symphony, 2011 Spring

(V2026, Walter Frisch)

Series IV: Religion, 2000-2008

This series consists of syllabi, bibliographies of recommended readings, class outlines and lecture handouts, and instructions for written assignments and exams from undergraduate surveys of Western religions.


Christianity, 2005 Fall

(V2105, Robert Somerville)


Introduction to Western Religions, 2000 Fall

(V1101, Celia Deutsch)


Islam, 2005 Spring

(V2305, Peter Awn)


Judaism, 2008 Fall

(V2505, Alan Segal)

Series V: History, 1994-2016, bulk 2006-2016

This series consists of syllabi, lecture hand-outs, and instructions for written assignments and exams from a diverse set of lectures in the History department. Included in the series is a syllabus and detailed set of field trip instructions for Kenneth Jackson's popular History of the City of New York lecture, though Stoner ultimately dropped the course.



Box 4 A City's History: New York, 1994 Summer

(S3605D, James Shenton)


History of the City of New York, 2016 Fall

(UN2535, Kenneth Jackson) (dropped)


Introduction to European History: French Revolution to the Present, 2016 Spring

(BC1302, Deborah Coen)


The Making of the Modern American Landscape, 2007 Spring

(W3441, Elizabeth Blackmar)


Nineteenth-Century Britain, 2016 Fall

(W2323, Matthew Wyman-McCarthy)


The Romans and Their Empire: 745 BC to 565 AD, 2006 Spring

(W1020, Myles McDonnell)

Series VI: Classics, English, and Comparative Literature, 2005-2017

This series consists of syllabi, reading guides, class outlines, lecture hand-outs, and instructions for exams and essays for lecture courses on the British and European novel, Classical literature and Shakespeare. A majority of the courses covered by the series were taught in the English department, but courses from Classics, Comparative Literature, and Russian appear as well.


American Modernism and Anti-Modernism, 2013 Spring

(W4604, Austin Graham)


The American Novel, 1865-1914, 2009 Spring

(unknown course number, Amanda Claybaugh)


American Writers and Their Foreign Counterparts, 2015 Spring

(BC3187, Mary Gordon)


Classical Myth, 2007 Fall

(CLLT V3132, Elizabeth Scharffenberger)


The Classical Tradition, 2012 Fall

(CLLT W4300, Nancy Worman)


Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, 2013 Fall

(W4405, Nicholas Dames)


History of the English Novel II, 2017 Spring

(W4802, James Eli Adams)


Literature and Empire: The Reign of the Novel in Russia, 2015 Fall

(RUSS UN3320, Cathy Popkin)


Opera As Literature, 2008 Spring

(CPLS BC3125, James Crapotta)


Post-1945 American Fiction, 2006 Fall

(W3283, Ross Posnock)


Shakespeare I, 2011 Fall

(W3335, Molly Murray)


Shakespeare II, 2012 Spring

(W3336, Julie Crawford)


Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and the English Novel, 2015 Fall

(CLRS W4011, Liza Knapp)


Virginia Woolf, 2014 Spring

(W4225, Sarah Cole)

Series VII: Cassettes

This series consists of tapes of walking tours from Donald Reynolds' New York City architecture lecture course, taught in summer 1994.



Box 5 Architecture of New York City walking tour, 1994 July 18

(2 tapes)


Architecture of New York City walking tour, 1994 July 20

(1 tape)


Architecture of New York City walking tour, 1994 August 1

(2 tapes)


Architecture of New York City walking tour, 1994 August 8

(2 tapes)


Architecture of New York City waking tour, 1994 August 10

(1 tape)


Architecture of New York City, undated

(tape labeled "architectural stimuli")