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Contents Illustrations and Tables xi History as Fun xiii Part I. The Craft of History 1. The Past 3 2. Story 7 3. History 11 4. Metahistory 21 5. Antihistory 29 6. The Present 35 7. The Future 41 Part II. The Tools of History 8. Doing History: An Overview 49 8.1 Choosing a Good Paper Topic 49 8.2 Reading History 50 8.3 Taking Notes 53 8.4 How to Write a Good History Paper 54 9. Sources and Evidence 58 9.1 Primary and Secondary Sources 58 Primary Source: The Wannsee Protocol (1942) 59 Secondary Source: Denying History: Who Says The Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (2000) 59 Summary 61 9.2 Documents 61 A Revolutionary War Ancestorís Pension Application (1832) 61 9.3 Maps 63 Sebastian Munsterís Map of the Americas, c. 1540 63 9.4 Artifacts 66 Digging Ancient Moscow 66 9.5 Images 68 Sharpshooterís Home or Photographerís Studio? 68 9.6 Cliometrics: Using Statistics to Prove a Point 72 The Black Population of Colonial America 72 9.7 Genetic Evidence 74 Welsh and Basques, Relatively Speaking 74 Jefferson and Sally HemingsóWhatís My Line? 75 10. Credit and Acknowledgment 81 10.1 Footnotes 81 10.2 Bibliography 83 Styling Your Bibliography 83 Types of Bibliographies 84 A Selective, Annotated Bibliography 84 10.3 Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism 85 10.4 Professional Plagiarism: How Not to Do History 88 11. Narrative and Explanation 94 11.1 The Language of the Historian 94 Paul Revere and the New England Village 95 11.2 Chronology 99 The Life of Margaret Fuller 99 11.3 Narrative 102 Pickettís Charge at Gettysburg 102 11.4 Argument 106 ìLittle Womenî Who Helped Make This Great War 107 11.5 Causation 108 11.6 The Reasons Why 110 Explaining the Mann Gulch Fire of August 5, 1949 111 12. Interpretation 114 12.1 Reviewing History 114 Bellesilesís Arming America 114 12.2 Historical Revision 118 The Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy (1822) 118 12.3 Historiography 121 World War II 122 12.4 Womenís History: The Leo Frank Case 125 13. Speculation 130 13.1 Historical Speculation 130 Will the Real Martin Guerre Please Get an Identity? 130 13.2 History as Fiction 132 The Soldier Who Never Was 133 13.3 Conspiracies 135 Who Really Really Killed Lincoln? 135 13.4 Forgeries and Facsimiles 138 Is a Document Genuine? 138 Is a Collection of Documents Authentic? 139 How Can Forgeries Influence History? 140 Is a Newly Discovered Collection by a Well-Known Author Authentic? 141 If It Is a Forgery, Who Is the Forger? 141 13.5 Fiction as History 142 13.6 Film as History: Fact or Fiction? 145 Film Can Help the Historian Understand the Past 145 Films Can Hinder Our Understanding of the Historical Past 147 Part III. The Relevance of History 14. Everyday History 150 14.1 Studying Ordinary People 150 The Burgermeisterís Daughter 150 14.2 Everyoneís a Historian 152 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 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. History on the Internet 19.1 Using the Internet: Promises and Pitfalls 19.2 "Wikipedia" and "Wikiality" 19.3 Blogging the Past (and Present) Glossary 155 Bibliography 163 Index 167 About the Author 171
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
History -- Methodology.
History -- Research.