The Historian’s Toolbox: A Student’s Guide to the Theory and Craft of History

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Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Table of Contents......Page 8 Illustrations and Tables......Page 12 History as Fun......Page 14 Part I. The Craft of History......Page 18 1. The Past......Page 20 2. Story......Page 24 3. History......Page 28 4. Metahistory......Page 37 5. Antihistory......Page 44 6. The Present......Page 50 7. The Future......Page 56 Part II. The Tools of History......Page 62 8.1 Choosing a Good Paper Topic......Page 64 8.2 Reading History......Page 65 8.3 Taking Notes......Page 68 8.4 How to Write a Good History Paper......Page 69 9.1 Primary and Secondary Sources......Page 73 Secondary Source: Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (2000)......Page 74 A Revolutionary War Ancestor's Pension Application (1832)......Page 76 Sebastian Munster's Map of the Americas, c. 1540......Page 78 Digging Ancient Moscow......Page 81 Sharpshooter's Home or Photographer's Studio?......Page 83 The Black Population of Colonial America......Page 87 9.7 Genetic Evidence......Page 89 Welsh and Basques, Relatively Speaking......Page 90 Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings—What's My Line?......Page 91 10.1 Notes......Page 96 Styling Your Bibliography......Page 98 A Selective, Annotated Bibliography......Page 99 10.3 Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism......Page 100 10.4 Professional Plagiarism: How Not to Do History......Page 103 11.1 The Language of the Historian......Page 108 Paul Revere and the New England Village......Page 109 11.2 Chronology......Page 112 The Life of Margaret Fuller......Page 114 Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg......Page 117 11.4 Argument......Page 121 "'Little Women' Who Helped Make This Great War"......Page 122 11.5 Causation......Page 123 Explaining the Mann Gulch Fire of August 5, 1949......Page 125 12.1 Reviewing History......Page 129 Bellesiles's Arming America......Page 130 The Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy (1822)......Page 133 12.3 Historiography......Page 136 World War II......Page 137 12.4 Women's History: The Leo Frank Case......Page 141 Will the Real Martin Guerre Please Get an Identity?......Page 145 13.2 History as Fiction......Page 147 The Soldier Who Never Was......Page 148 Who Really Really Killed Lincoln?......Page 150 Is a Document Genuine?......Page 153 How Can Forgeries Influence History?......Page 155 If It Is a Forgery, Who Is the Forger?......Page 156 13.5 Fiction as History......Page 158 13.6 Film as History: Fact or Fiction?......Page 160 Films Can Help the Historian Understand the Past......Page 161 Films Can Hinder Our Understanding of the Historical Past......Page 162 Part III. The Relevance of History......Page 166 The Burgermeister's Daughter......Page 168 14.2 Everyone's a Historian......Page 170 15.1 The Perils of Memory......Page 173 15.2 Interviewees and Interviewers......Page 175 The WPA Slave Narratives......Page 176 15.3 Techniques of Oral History......Page 178 16.1 Spirits in the Material World......Page 181 Richard Bushman and the Refinement of America......Page 182 16.2 Studying Material Culture......Page 184 17.1 History Beyond the Ivory Tower......Page 187 The Enola Gay Controversy......Page 189 18.1 History in Real Time......Page 194 The Iraq War: Munich, Mukden, or Mexico?......Page 195 19.1 Spatial History: Geographic Information Systems......Page 199 19.2 Killer App: Crime Scene Investigation Forensics......Page 201 20.1 Using the Internet: Promises and Pitfalls......Page 204 20.2 Wikipedia and "Wikiality"......Page 206 20.3 Blogging the Past (and Present)......Page 208 21.1 History as Information......Page 210 21.2 Hacking History: The Deluge of WikiLeaks......Page 213 21.3 Private Parts: The Intrusion of History......Page 216 22. Epilogue: The Persistence of History......Page 219 Glossary......Page 222 Selected Bibliography......Page 230 Index......Page 236