Now in its fifth edition, The Historian's Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offering an overview of the field and techniques for reading and writing about history.
Now in its fifth edition, The Historian's Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offering an overview of the field and techniques for reading and writing about history.
Robert C. Williams is Vail Professor of History Emeritus at Davidson College, where he was Dean of Faculty from 1986 to 1998. He is a Russian historian and the author of eighteen books and numerous articles. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and has taught at Bates, Davidson, and Williams colleges and at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Part 1: The Craft of History 1. The Past 2. Story 3. History 4. Metahistory 5. Antihistory 6. The Present 7. The Future Part 2: The Tools of History 8. Doing History: An Overview 9. Sources and Evidence 10. Credit and Acknowledgment 11. Narrative and Explanation 12. Interpretation 13. Speculation Part 3: The Relevance of History 14. Everyday History 15. Oral History 16. Material Culture 17. Public History 18. Event Analysis 19. Digital History 20. Gender History 21. Indigenous Peoples 22. Epilogue: The End of History?
Contents
Illustrations and Tables
History as Fun
Part I. The Craft of History
1. The Past
2. Story
3. History
4. Metahistory
5. Antihistory
6. The Present
7. The Future
Part II. The Tools of History
8. Doing History: An Overview
8.1 Choosing a Good Paper Topic
8.2 Reading History
8.3 Taking Notes
8.4 How to Write a Good History Paper
9. Sources and Evidence
9.1 Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary Source: The Wannsee Protocol (1942)
Secondary Source: Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (2000)
Summary
9.2 Documents
A Revolutionary War Ancestor's Pension Application (1832)
9.3 Maps
Sebastian Munster's Map of the Americas, c. 1540
9.4 Artifacts
Digging Ancient Moscow
9.5 Images
Sharpshooter's Home or Photographer's Studio?
9.6 Cliometrics: Using Statistics to Prove a Point
The Black Population of Colonial America
9.7 Genetic Evidence
Welsh and Basques, Relatively Speaking
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings-What's My Line?
10. Credit and Acknowledgment
10.1 Notes
10.2 Bibliography
Styling Your Bibliography
Types of Bibliographies
A Selective, Annotated Bibliography
10.3 Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
10.4 Professional Plagiarism: How Not to Do History
11. Narrative and Explanation
11.1 The Language of the Historian
Paul Revere and the New England Village
11.2 Chronology
The Life of Margaret Fuller
11.3 Narrative
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
11.4 Argument
"'Little Women' Who Helped Make This Great War"
11.5 Causation
11.6 The Reasons Why
Explaining the Mann Gulch Fire of August 5, 1949
12. Interpretation
12.1 Reviewing History
Bellesiles's Arming America
12.2 Historical Revision
The Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy (1822)
12.3 Historiography
World War II
12.4 Women's History: The Leo Frank Case
13. Speculation
13.1 Historical Speculation
Will the Real Martin Guerre Please Get an Identity?
13.2 History as Fiction
The Soldier Who Never Was
13.3 Conspiracies
Who Really Really Killed Lincoln?
13.4 Forgeries and Facsimiles
Is a Document Genuine?
Is a Collection of Documents Authentic?
How Can Forgeries Influence History?
Is a Newly Discovered Collection by a Well-Known Author Authentic?
If It Is a Forgery, Who Is the Forger?
13.5 Fiction as History
13.6 Film as History: Fact or Fiction?
Films Can Help the Historian Understand the Past
Films Can Hinder Our Understanding of the Historical Past
Part III. The Relevance of History
14. Everyday History
14.1 Studying Ordinary People
The Burgermeister's Daughter
14.2 Everyone's a Historian
14.3 Local History. A Tale of Two Towns
15. Oral History
15.1 The Perils of Memory
15.2 Interviewees and Interviewers
The WPA Slave Narratives
15.3 Techniques of Oral History
16. Material Culture
16.1 Spirits in the Material World Richard Bushman and The Refinement of America
16.2 Studying Material Culture
16.3 Provenance and Ownership. Tracing Stolen Art
17. Public History
17.1 History Beyond the Ivory Tower
17.2 History and the Public
The Enola Gay Controversy
18. Event Analysis
18.1 History in Real Time
The Iraq War: Munich, Mukden, or Mexico?
19. New Tools: GIS and CSI
19.1 Spatial History: Geographic Information Systems
19.2 Killer App: Crime Scene Investigation Forensics
Part 1: The Craft of History 1. The Past 2. Story 3. History 4. Metahistory 5. Antihistory 6. The Present 7. The Future Part 2: The Tools of History 8. Doing History: An Overview 9. Sources and Evidence 10. Credit and Acknowledgment 11. Narrative and Explanation 12. Interpretation 13. Speculation Part 3: The Relevance of History 14. Everyday History 15. Oral History 16. Material Culture 17. Public History 18. Event Analysis 19. Digital History 20. Gender History 21. Indigenous Peoples 22. Epilogue: The End of History?
Contents
Illustrations and Tables
History as Fun
Part I. The Craft of History
1. The Past
2. Story
3. History
4. Metahistory
5. Antihistory
6. The Present
7. The Future
Part II. The Tools of History
8. Doing History: An Overview
8.1 Choosing a Good Paper Topic
8.2 Reading History
8.3 Taking Notes
8.4 How to Write a Good History Paper
9. Sources and Evidence
9.1 Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary Source: The Wannsee Protocol (1942)
Secondary Source: Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (2000)
Summary
9.2 Documents
A Revolutionary War Ancestor's Pension Application (1832)
9.3 Maps
Sebastian Munster's Map of the Americas, c. 1540
9.4 Artifacts
Digging Ancient Moscow
9.5 Images
Sharpshooter's Home or Photographer's Studio?
9.6 Cliometrics: Using Statistics to Prove a Point
The Black Population of Colonial America
9.7 Genetic Evidence
Welsh and Basques, Relatively Speaking
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings-What's My Line?
10. Credit and Acknowledgment
10.1 Notes
10.2 Bibliography
Styling Your Bibliography
Types of Bibliographies
A Selective, Annotated Bibliography
10.3 Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
10.4 Professional Plagiarism: How Not to Do History
11. Narrative and Explanation
11.1 The Language of the Historian
Paul Revere and the New England Village
11.2 Chronology
The Life of Margaret Fuller
11.3 Narrative
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
11.4 Argument
"'Little Women' Who Helped Make This Great War"
11.5 Causation
11.6 The Reasons Why
Explaining the Mann Gulch Fire of August 5, 1949
12. Interpretation
12.1 Reviewing History
Bellesiles's Arming America
12.2 Historical Revision
The Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy (1822)
12.3 Historiography
World War II
12.4 Women's History: The Leo Frank Case
13. Speculation
13.1 Historical Speculation
Will the Real Martin Guerre Please Get an Identity?
13.2 History as Fiction
The Soldier Who Never Was
13.3 Conspiracies
Who Really Really Killed Lincoln?
13.4 Forgeries and Facsimiles
Is a Document Genuine?
Is a Collection of Documents Authentic?
How Can Forgeries Influence History?
Is a Newly Discovered Collection by a Well-Known Author Authentic?
If It Is a Forgery, Who Is the Forger?
13.5 Fiction as History
13.6 Film as History: Fact or Fiction?
Films Can Help the Historian Understand the Past
Films Can Hinder Our Understanding of the Historical Past
Part III. The Relevance of History
14. Everyday History
14.1 Studying Ordinary People
The Burgermeister's Daughter
14.2 Everyone's a Historian
14.3 Local History. A Tale of Two Towns
15. Oral History
15.1 The Perils of Memory
15.2 Interviewees and Interviewers
The WPA Slave Narratives
15.3 Techniques of Oral History
16. Material Culture
16.1 Spirits in the Material World Richard Bushman and The Refinement of America
16.2 Studying Material Culture
16.3 Provenance and Ownership. Tracing Stolen Art
17. Public History
17.1 History Beyond the Ivory Tower
17.2 History and the Public
The Enola Gay Controversy
18. Event Analysis
18.1 History in Real Time
The Iraq War: Munich, Mukden, or Mexico?
19. New Tools: GIS and CSI
19.1 Spatial History: Geographic Information Systems
19.2 Killer App: Crime Scene Investigation Forensics
20. History on the Internet
20.1 Using the Internet: Promises and Pitfalls
20.2 Wikipedia and "Wikiality"
20.3 Blogging the Past (and Present)
21. TMI: Too Much Information
21.1 History as Information
21.2 Hacking History: The Deluge of WikiLeaks
21.3 Private Parts: The Intrusion of History
21.4 Twitter
22. Epilogue: The End of History?
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
Rezensionen
"The Historian's Toolbox is a quintessential guide that needs to be on the desk of every undergraduate student of history. The fourth edition incorporates new debates and tools for Digital Humanities."
Dr. Anjana Singh, Asst. Professor in Early Modern History, Department of History; University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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