Week Two: Reading schedule for compositions

Sunday, February 8th, 6pm

-----Week One: Habermas, Wolff, Blum

Monday, February 16, 630pm

-----Week Two: Weber, Gellner, Kohn

Monday, March 2, 630pm

Week Three: Colley, Chatterjee, and Stokes

Week Four: Hobsbawm&Ranger, Komaroff

(optional) Sunday, March 8, 6pm

-----Use this meeting to cover any issues, questions, spillover from previous weeks

Monday, March 30, 6pm

-----Week Five: Goldman, Cherniavsky, Hochs

Monday, April 6, 6pm

-----Week Six: Gatrell, Hirsch, Goldhagen (excerpts), and Koonz

HY592: 1st Class

The first class was good, there were several people I've known in previous classes: Mike, Kara, etc. About half the students in the class are primary/secondary school teachers getting their specialist degree and about half are graduate students pursuing traditional masters.

The reading load and papers don't seem too exhaustive and we'll be putting together a lesson plan and syllabus. I would imagine that the public school teachers' feedback will be invaluable. 

Meeting with Dr. Mohr regarding progressivism/populism in Alabama/the South

Meeting Notes:

These women fit best with the humanitarian wing of the progressive movement, but the progressive movement was undeveloped and practically non-existant in Alabama at that point (Sheldon Hackney points out that only 37 out of 155 delegates to the 1901 Constitutional Convention were progressives). These women were on their lonesome. **I should look at Elna Green again to see how my women work into her framework.** With the populist rebellion of the 1890s behind them, any radical movement in Alabama was unwelcome, even more unwelcome than the populists. The Black Belt Democrats wanted to control who could vote and limit the influence of "white"/northern counties. They wanted lower taxes, less regulations, and other than their interest with the railroad, pretty much wanted the government to leave them the hell alone. The suffragists goals would have required higher taxes, more government regulations, and more oversight, which would have jeopardizes the Black Belt county leaders who had frequently been involved with illegal elections and voter fraud.

Additional Reading: Sam Webb's book should be my next priority.

EH: Week One

Went over syllabus, figured out schedule for books and assigned weeks for annotated bibliographies/historiographies and book reviews.

I'm writing a book review on fascism/totalitarianism but the book hasn't been assigned yet. It'll be due the last week of class. My annotated bibliography and historiographical essay is due on March 3rd and is on Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault. I look forward to the challenge.

Otherwise, the class looks really good. There are several familiar faces: Regina, Elizabeth, Nadine, Matt, and Michael. Michael & I will be taking European comps together so maybe we can set up some sort of reading group. Nadine and I have a semester of assisting together behind us, will be assisting Dr. Brazy together this spring, and now with this class together will prove to be a valuable ally in surviving this semester.

Thesis: Reading List

Alabama History:

Going, Allen J. Bourbon Democracy in Alabama, 1874-1890 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1951. Reprinted 1992).

Status: Own. Unread.

Hackney, Sheldon. Populism to Progressivism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969).

Status: Borrowed. Partially Read.

McMillan, Malcolm Cook. Constitutional Development in Alabama, 1798-1901: A Study in Politics, the Negro, and Sectionalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955. Reprinted 1978).

Status: Borrowed. Completely read with extensive notes.

Rogers, William Warren. The One-Gallused Rebellion: Agrarianism in Alabama, 1865-1896 (Baton Rouge: Louisana State University Press, 1970).

Status: Not borrowed. Unread.

Webb, Samuel L. Two-Party Politics in one One-Party South: Alabama's Hill Country, 1874-1920 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998).

Status: Not borrowed. Unread.

Wiener, Jonathan A. Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1860-1885 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978). 

Status: Not borrowed. Unread.

Southern History:

Williamson, Joel. Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in American South Since Emancipation (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1984).

Status: Borrowed. Unread.

Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1951).

Status: Own. Partially Read.

Women's History:

Bordin, Ruth. Women and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873-1900(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981). 

Cott, Nancy. The Bonds of Womanhood: "Women's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977).

Du Bois, Ellen C. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Feminist Movement in America, 1848-1869 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980). 

Hewitt, Nancy. Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984).

Melder, Keither. The Beginnings of Sisterhood: The Women's Rights Movement in the United States, 1800-1840 (New York: Schocken, 1977).

United States History:

Goodwin, Larry. The Populist Movement: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978).

Goodwin, Larry. Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976).

HY 592: Teaching of History

History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past by Gary Nash

AbeBooks.com: $4.20 + $4.00 or 9.50 (shipping)= $8.20 or $13.70

Barnes & Noble: $14.35 + tax= $15.79

 Alibris.com: $1.99

Ordered: January 13, 2009

Knowing, Teaching, & Learning History: National and International Perspectives by Peter Stearns

AbeBooks.com: $19.55 + $4.00 or 9.50= $23.50 or 29.05

Barnes & Noble: $20.70+ tax= $22.77

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Ordered: January 13, 2009

Teaching History for the Common Good by Keith C. Barton

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Barnes & Noble: $35.95+ tax= $39.55

Alibris.com: $26.95 + $3.99 or $5.99= $30.94 or $32.94

Ordered: January 13, 2009

European Historiography

The Old Regime and French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville, translated by Stuart Gilbert

AbeBooks.com: $3.35+ $3.75 or $6.75 (shipping)= $7.10 or $10.10

**Alibris.com: $1.99 + 3.99 or 6.99 (shipping)= $5.98 or 8.98

Received: January 7, 2009

The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson

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Received: January 9, 2009

Total: $30.97

Cheese & The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by John and Anne C Tedeschi

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Barnes & Noble: $18.90+tax

Received: January 13, 2009

The Great War and Modern Memory (25th Anniversary Edition) by Paul Fussell

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The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn

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Received: January 9, 2009

Total: $44.68

Grand Total: $75.65

[Edited: Friday, January 13, 4:47pm]

German Ideology by Karl Marx (Don't know what edition I should get)

I have a copy of these:

Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault (unread)

Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe by Norman M Naimark (read in Dr. Mara Kozelsky's Comparative Nationalism course)

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (New Edition) by Benedict Anderson (read in Dr. Mara Kozelsky's Comparative Nationalism course but not discussed)

Orientalism by Edward W. Said (read in Dr. Mara Kozelsky's European Imperialism course)

World Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein (read but not discussed)

Duke University

Professors:
1. Laura F Edwards, 19th century women's history & legal history
2. Edward J Balleisen, legal history
3. William H Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor, women's history & economic history
Others: Glymph, Koonz, Gavis, Deutsch

Admission: Applications must be submitted online by December 15th. If submitted before November 15, the fee is $65. After November 15, the fee is $75.
1. Transcripts;
2. Writing Sample (at least 10-15 pgs);
3. Letters of Recommendation
4. Statement of Purpose

Requirements:
1. 5-6 full time semesters
2. required courses
3. foreign language requirement
4. supervisory committee
5. continuous registration
6. preliminary examination
7. dissertation
8. final examination

Schedule:
Fall 2009
-301: course on historiography & theory. The primary goal is to introduce students to basic theoretical and historiographical readings in the discipline. The secondary goal is to encourage the creation of community among graduate students around intellectual ideas.
-readings:
-readings
Spring 2010
-302: course on research methods and interpretation of primary sources. The primary goal is to introduce students to the process of finding and interpreting sources, with the emphasis on research as an intellectual project, not just a process of collection. Specifically, students will work different kinds of sources and become acquainted with different methodological approaches to those sources. The emphasis will be on working with the sources, rather than on producing a polished, article-length piece of written work. Students will have the opportunity to pursue their own individual research interests in 302, while also engaging in exercises and discussions that will broaden and deepen their understanding of that research.
-readings
-readings or research seminar

Goal: To develop a basic familiarity with what distinguishes history as an academic discipline and how the concepts and methodologies used by historians overlap with and diverge from those of other disciplines. To have ranged outside my primary fields of interest in coursework, while also building on preexisting knowledge in a primary field, developing a familiarity with crucial scholarly debates in that field. To develop an independent scholarly agenda, reading beyond assigned books and articles, and forming at least tentative ideas of their likely preliminary examination fields, as well as the likely membership of their preliminary examination committee.

Reader:
1. Identify central argument of scholarly works;
2. Access use of evidence by historians;
3. Place a piece of history into larger historical context
4. Interpret primary sources imaginatively & with attention to context

Writer:
1. Produce clear and engaging prose;
2. Execute key disciplinary genres, such as book review & historiographic essay

Researcher:
1. Devise strategies to corroborate evidence in a primary source;
2. Familiarity with a range of research methodologies, including some approaches that extend beyond previous experience in historical research;
3. Familiarity in finding and using a wide range of historical primary sources;
4. Familiarity in identifying scholarship on a particular subject, through both traditional library techniques, and the use of web databases;
5. Familiarity with note-taking software, extending to significant experience in using such software to organize research work and assist in research-related writing;
6. Facility in developing compelling research questions from rich historical documents or from vibrant scholarly debates;
7. Facility in connecting those questions to plausible research agendas, with sensible methodological approaches, clear historiographic relevance, and accessible primary sources.

Seminar Participant:
1. Ask good questions;
2. Engaged in constructive criticism of methodology & use of evidence;
3. Think of my feet;
4. Disagree agreeably & listen constructively

Fall 2010
-303: course on teaching and pedagogy. The goals of the course are to provide support for T.A.s in their first year in the classroom, and to allow students to develop teaching techniques and approaches they can draw on to create a teaching portfolio, for use on the job market and when they begin teaching their own courses.
-readings
-research seminar
Spring 2011
-readings
-readings
-research seminar

Goal: Identify clear field of study. Deeper grasp of the relationship between history and its related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, and a sharper sense of how to relate wide-angle synthetic views of the past to more particular scholarly inquiries.

Reader:
1. Capacity to assess the strengths of scholarship, along with its weaknesses;
2. Skills in conceptualizing particular historical fields -- in periodizing change within those fields, and relating specific developments to more global contexts;
3. Language requirements.

Writer:
1. Conceptualize a complex historical argument;
2. Complete two strong essays based on original research & reflecting solid historical logic (these essays will typically constitute the research component for the M.A. degree);
3. Engage effectively with constructive criticism -- when advisable, reconceive the basic contours of an historical argument, rework narrative flow, and/or tighten up presentations of evidence or historiography.

Researcher:
1. Ability to craft and refine a research problem of appropriate scale for a semester-long project; 2. Developed extensive familiarity with Perkins Library and its databases, building on the training provided in the first-year course on research methods (History 302);
3. Significant experience in working in archives beyond Duke, subject to the availability of funding to support such work;
4. Pursued extended detective work (both bibliographic and archival) in the research for the year's two research papers;
5. Kept track of "data" in a system that works for the individual student; most likely in some kind of database software;
6. Placed research findings within broader historical and historiographic frameworks; and shown the capacity to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the methodologies used in the two research papers, and as a result, possess a healthy respect for the difficulties of connecting historiographical debates to concrete research agendas.

Teacher:
1. Developed the basic skills of leading section discussions, fostering close readings by students, and responding constructively to student writing;
2. Develop the crucial skill of synthesizing large amounts of material into accessible public presentations, such as the lecture;
3. Begun to find my way around the key information technologies used in the collegiate teaching of history;
4. Begun the process of developing syllabi;
5. Begun the process of developing innovative assignments;
6. Begun to develop the basic skills of overseeing undergraduate research.

Seminar Participant:
1. Leading a discussion in a graduate seminar context;
2. Engaged substantively, intensively, and constructively with the research and writing of fellow students, particularly in the context of research seminars;
3. Honed the skill of posing challenging questions in public settings, whether in seminars or public presentations;
4. Participated regularly in departmental, university, and area intellectual events, such as a lectures, seminars, or workshops

Professionalism:
1. Develop grant-writing skill and applied for at least one competitive grant beyond Duke;
2. Attend at least one professional meeting, whether regional, national, or international.

Fall 2011
-304: course on prelims & dissertation proposal. Not graded. Any student who (1) submits a draft of their dissertation prospectus and (2) completes one field section of their prelim portfolio (verified by faculty examiner) by term's end will pass. The first part of the semester will include discussion of the following: 1. the certification requirements; 2. how to write a dissertation proposal; 3. how to apply for research fellowships; 4. how to revise a research paper for the purposes of publication. The remainder of the course allows students to pursue their individual work for prelims, in consultation with the professor.
-independent study with committee members
Spring 2012:
-independent study with committee members
-prelims
Possible option: Do prelims and prospectus in second year (2010-2011).
Requirements: 301, 302, 303, 304, 1 research seminar, & 2 readings colloquia. Must have approval by advisors.
Also: Students are encouraged to take readings courses outside the department. Research seminars also may be from outside the department, as long as the primary result is a research paper, based in primary materials. Duke students can take graduate classes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , North Carolina Central University in Durham , and North Carolina State University in Raleigh , and at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. UNC-Chapel Hill is the most frequently used of these options. The numbering system at UNC-CH differs from Duke's: UNC's 100-level courses are the equivalent of 200-level courses at Duke; UNC's 200-level is like Duke's 300-level.

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Faculty:
Jacquelyn Hall, Southern women's history & oral history
Barbara Harris, Tudor, women, & family history

Application:
Deadline December 1st.
Requirements:
1. Official Transcripts from undergrad & graduate schools;
2. Writing Sample (thesis or portion of thesis);
3. Statement of Purpose. Commitment to study. Include any relevant details about your academic experiences, background, qualifications, or goals not already evident in other parts of the application. State independent research. Explains interest in study of history (and research interests). Specify clearly which field of History you wish to work in and with whom you would like to work if you attend UNC-CH.
4. At least 3 letters of recommendations;
5. GRE;
6. Application fee: $75.

Financial Aid: 5 years of financial support: tuition, health insurance, & an annual stipend ($14,400 for 2007-2008 academic year). The department also supplements this financial support with 3yrs of summer research funding. Exceptional applicants may be nominated for some of the 1yr & multi year competitive & prestigious fellowships awarded by the Graduate School at Chapel Hill.

Students with MAs: Have 2 fields of study: Major & Minor (2 courses). Become ABD in 4 semesters: language requirement (1st year), coursework, comprehensive exams, defend dissertation proposal.

Comprehensive exams: 1st year: take courses to help prepare you for your comprehensive exams & to build relationships with faculty members who will serve as your committee members. By end of 1st year, Compilation of reading lists, in consultation with the faculty examiners. Beginning of 2nd year: take comprehensive exam. Women & Gender History:
1. Purpose: Assess your competence to handle the sorts of large issues and trends that are part of both classroom teaching and professional historical discourse;
2. Preparation for Written Exam: 3 Exams with specific member of faculty. Each professor may pose the questions that she chooses, but you can expect that the questions posed will reflect your preparation with that member of the faculty. You'll not get your examination questions in advance, but you'll also not be totally surprised by questions you receive on the day of the examination.
3. Format for Written Exam: Each of 3 exams: 8 hours, get question to be answered, and what sources & aids are necessary. You may do your work wherever you like. Each exam word limit: 2500 words (10 pgs) and honor statement.
4. Scheduling: May take 3 exams separately but within 1st 2 weeks of semester.
5. Content: My Concentration: Women's history 1890-present.
5a. GEOGRAPHICAL SPECIALTY. You will be examined on two adjacent time periods within general geographical area of your specialty;
5b. WOMEN'S HISTORY SPECIALIZATION. You write on your specialization in Women's History. You are responsible for the entire chronological spread of Women's History in US history;
5c. COMPARATIVE OR GLOBAL EXAMINATION. You answer one of the following: a question on Women's History in a geographical area outside your main specialization, a question on a comparative aspect of Women's History, or a question on a global aspect of Women's History.
6. Assessment: L (poor, must retake exam within 3 months), F (must retake exam within 6 months), L or F on 2+ parts will fail entire exam and must retake between 3-6 months after exam.
7. Additional Rules: Take History 209, 221, 222, and 387.

Rutgers University

Faculty:
1. Norma BASCH (Ph.D., NYU), Nineteenth-Century America, Women and Law;
2. Ann GORDON (Ph.D., Wisconsin at Madison), Nineteenth Century America; Stanton and Anthony Papers Project;
3. Nancy HEWITT (Ph.D., Pennsylvania), Nineteenth Century America, Social Movements, Comparative Feminism

Size: 15-20 students.

Application Requirements: Application form, 3 letters of recommendation, official transcripts, personal statement, writing sample, & GRE scores.

Deadline: Late November.

University of Iowa

Faculty:
1. Linda Kerber: US Women's History, Legal & Intellectual History
2. Johanna Schoen: 20th Century American Women's History of Sexuality, Women & Medicine
3. Leslie Schwalm: Slavery, Civil War, & Reconstruction, Women & African-American History, Southern History, 19th Century US History

Application Requirements:
1. GRE scores
2. Writing sample
3. Statement of Purpose
4. 3 Letters of Recommendation
5. Transcript
6. Application for Graduate Awards form

Deadline: December 1st-late December.

Students who have an M.A. in History from another university may apply directly to our Ph.D. program during the annual admissions cycle. The Ph.D. degree requires 72 credits of graduate course work (including the credits obtained for the M.A. degree), comprehensive examinations in three fields of history (distributed between two of our major divisions, as listed above) and completion of a doctoral dissertation under the direction of a member of the department. 

Applicants with an M.A. from another university may transfer up to 30 credit hours of graduate credit from their Master's program, if the credits are accepted by the University of Iowa's transcript service. This is the number of credit hours that students must complete for an M.A. degree in our program. Doctoral students thus need to complete an additional 42 hours of graduate credit for the Ph.D.

In addition to the course requirements, the comprehensive examinations and the dissertation, individual faculty may require their students to master one or more languages, to demonstrate proficiency in particular research methods (quantitative analysis, paleography) or to develop other skills as necessary for their fields of study and dissertation projects.

Funding: Iowa Fellowships: Funding from these sources come in multi-year packages, which usually include an initial year of fellowship support, followed by 2-3 years of teaching, and a 4th year of fellowship funding. Research Assistantship & the Graduate Instructorship: applicants to our program must fill out the "Application for Graduate Awards" included with the Graduate Admissions material in order to be considered for funding from these sources.

Research Assistantships: Stipend: $16k + instate tuition. We find that serving as an RA helps incoming students to get to know History faculty while adjusting to the Department and to Iowa City.

Graduate Instructor: Stipend: $17,500 + in-state tuition
1st assignment: discussion leader for sections of a survey course in which a faculty member delivers lectures to a large class. Such courses may have 200-300 students enrolled, & these large groups are divided into discussion sections of 22 students each. The GI meets with these students every week to go over course material and to discuss the assigned readings. The GI is usually responsible for grading the writing assignments & examinations for his or her sections, as well. Teaching discussion sections prepares GIs for their next teaching assignment

2nd assignment: GIs teach their own courses within our "Issues in Human History" curriculum. We have defined a number of "Issues," such as "20th Century Crisis" and "Gender in History," which have general course descriptions. Half of the content of each Issues course must be about non-U.S. material. Within these general guidelines, GI design their own sections of the issue they have chosen. They write the syllabus, choose the course texts, create the assignments and do all of the grading. Under the overall direction of a faculty supervisor, who is there to help with problems, to provide support and to ensure high-quality teaching, our GIs have excellent opportunities to grow as teachers of college level courses.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Faculty:
1. Jeanne Boydston: Women's, Early Republic and Antebellum, social & cultural of 19th c.
2. Anne Enke: History of Sexuality
3. Nan Enstad: Women's 20th c., popular culture
4. Christina Greene

Deadline: December 1

Required Credits: To be eligible for the Ph.D., students must take a total of 32 graduate-level credits at UW-Madison.

Requirements:
1. Transcript
2. GRE scores
3. 3 Letters of recommendation
4. Writing Sample
5. Personal Statement: 2-3 pgs, While it may well include some autobiographical information, its real purpose is to acquaint us with how your mind works. We want to know what kinds of intellectual problems and issues interest you, whose stories intrigue you, what sorts of analytical or narrative approaches you like to pursue, which historical writings you admire – and your reasons for these various preferences. Please help us understand your decision to enter the historical profession and how you see your own role in it.

Financial Aid:
Decided in February. Not all get funded. A significant % of incoming students do not receive such support. Some receive project assistantships or a teaching assistantship. Aid for continuing students (second-year and later) takes a variety of forms. University Fellowships in this category are normally available only to students who have completed prelims and been admitted to dissertator status. Predissertators, however, are fully eligible for other categories of aid, including teaching assistantships, project/research assistantships, Foreign Language and Areas Studies (FLAS or Title VI) fellowships, and departmental fellowships.
1. Departmental Multi-Year Aid Packages: These provide four to five years of guaranteed aid to a select number of incoming graduate students. One or two years is in the form of a University Fellowship (see below); the remainder may take the form of departmental fellowships, assistantships, or external fellowships.
2. University Fellowships: In 2007-2008, University Fellowships for new graduate students include a stipend of $15,570, plus payment of tuition and fees and a $600 Vilas Welcome Week check issued in August to cover moving expenses. The History Department's Fellowships & Scholarships Committee reviews incoming applicants and submits nominations to the Graduate School early in the spring semester. The Graduate School announces the competition results in late February and the Department notifies recipients by mail. Direct any inquiries to the Department of History, c/o Graduate Funding Coordinator; do not call the Graduate School. Students must accept their awards by April 15.
3. History Department Fellowships: The Department's Fellowships & Scholarships Committee awards these fellowships, determining the number and size of the prizes according to the money available in the department’s trust funds. The Committee currently awards one-semester grants of approximately $5,000 - $7,000, the majority of which carry out-of-state tuition remission. In recent years these have been awarded to continuing students.
4. Teaching Assistantships: The History Department awards teaching assistantships based on a ranking system. The main factors used for the rankings include: (1) area of study, (2) the date of the M.A., (3) Ph.D. requirements completed, (4) number of previous semesters as a teaching assistant in the History Department, and (5) grade point average since entering the history grad program. Incoming students are first eligible for the rankings for second semester appointments.
5. Project/Research Assistantships and Grader/Readerships: Faculty members select the individuals they wish to employ in these positions and may occasionally offer them to incoming students. When funds allow, the History Department offers a project assistantship to work on graduate student retention and recruitment.

University of Minnesota

Faculty:
1. Sara Evans: gender analysis, family history, American women's history, social movements
2. Anna Clark: Irish history, history of sexuality, gender analysis, British and European history, The British Empire, history of women
3. Donna Gabaccia
4. Kirsten Fischer
5. Dubrow
6. Kunzel
7. Norling
8. Elaine Tyler May