HST287: Resources for Research Project
History 2808 The Historian's Craft: Syllabus
Professor Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Carlton University
http://www.carleton.ca/~slrivera/HIS.2808.htm
- "The Uses of History" in John Tosh The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods
and New Directions in the Study of Modern History (London: Longman,1991),
p.1-29.
- "The View from Bottom Rail" in After the Fact: The Art of Historical
Detection by J.W. Davidson and M.H. Lyttle, (New York: Knopf, 1986) p. 177-210.
- Ivan Gaskell, "History of Images" in New Perspectives on Historical
Writing edited by Peter Burke (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University
Press, 1991) p.168-192.
History 2903A1
Dr. Leigh Whaley, Acadia University
http://ace.acadiau.ca/history/lwhaley/Hist29032004.htm
- Jules R. Benjamin, A Student's Guide to History,
8th ed. (Boston, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001)
- Mark T. Gilderhus, History and Historians: A Historiographical
Introduction, 5th ed.
History 300, SEMINAR IN HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
<>Sarah Curtis,
San Francisco State University
http://bss.sfsu.edu/history/CourseFiles/Fall2004/Curtis%20300.02.htm
- Mark T. Gilderhaus,
History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction, 5th
ed.
- Gary B. Nash, Charlotte
Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn, History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching
of the Past
- Laurie G. Kirszner and
Stephen R. Mandell, The Pocket Handbook for History, 2nd
ed.
A Student's Online Guide to History Reference
Sources
Jules R. Benjamin
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/benjamin/
Becoming Oakland: Section on Theoretical
Framework
Cassidy Puckett, Eric Meyers
http://ldt.stanford.edu/~cpuckett/beoak/
Article: Has good resources (Rosensweig, etc.) and general ideas. (But poor
web design!!)
The Landscape of History
Gaddis, John Lewis
Recasting the Past: Digital Histories
AHC-UK Conference, Nov 2004
http://www.ahc.ac.uk/confweb/index.htm
Telling the Truth about History
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob
Review of Niall Ferguson's Virtual History
A. L. Sirios
http://www.clocktowerfiction.com/Reviews/virtualhistory.shtml
Makes some minor, interesting, not very flattering, points on what a historian
is/does.
(And Fulford's web bio of Ferguson: http://www.robertfulford.com/NiallFerguson1.html)
The Historian's Craft
http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2002/0209/0209teach3.cfm
How Dr. Jim Jones uses a computer for History
http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his480/lectures/501compu.htm
Computer Methods in Historical Research: http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his480.htm#syllab
The Historian's Craft
http://www.natureshift.org/history/explore/hiscraft.html
Might provide a useful framework for organizing the paper into sections.
Practice interpreting artifcats
Practice with secondary sources
Practice interpreting documents
Practice interpreting photographs
Practice collecting oral histories
Kent State University Library
http://www.library.kent.edu/page/10913
Great list of history resources!
Best of History Websites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/
Conal Furay and Michael J. Salevouris, The Methods and Skills of History.
Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History.
AHDS: Digitizing History,
A Good Bibliography
http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/sect72.asp
Voyager:
Subject history--data processing
"A degree in History"
http://www.cas.okstate.edu/career/WTDWD/nonpdf/History.htm
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/history/Undergrad/FAQ/A-whatcanido.htm
Associations:
AAHC
http://www.theaahc.org/
Journal of AHC
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/jahcindex.htm
AHC
http://odur.let.rug.nl/ahc/
American Historical Association
http://www.historians.org/