Product Description: A Short Guide to Writing about History is an ideal complement for any history course intended to teach students to think and write like historians.  This engaging and practical text will teach students how to go beyond reporting the basic dates and facts of their history books and show them how to infuse their writing with their own ideas and unique perspective...read more

Anthony Brundage has revised his popular book to render an even more detailed, practical and "user friendly" tool for students faced with what can be a daunting task: the researching and writing of a research paper or historiographical essay. After an introductory chapter that describes the different schools of historical thought, Going to the Sources becomes a handy manual, helping the reader to identify and access the many sources--both old and new--available to historical researchers. Accordingly, this new edition includes a detailed discussion of electronic databases and a list of World Wide Web sites devoted to history.

Product Description: A tribute to the late history professor Jan Glete, this work focuses on the dynamic interaction of organizations, norm systems, and institutional changes that informed his work. The chapters span a period from the first cultures to present day and include European, Middle Eastern, Japanese, and South American history...read more

A guide to the theory and methods of historical research covers the use of such tools as documents, footnotes, and chronologies, and includes information on professional ethics, plagarism, and historical hoaxes.

Product Description: The book offers guidance to aspiring historians at every stage and in every walk of life, from practical advice on tackling and organizing projects to recommendations for finding and using resources of all kinds, whether at the local library or historical society or on the world wide web...read more

Product Description: This is the first guide to the sources, techniques and concepts needed for effective historical research studies.Each chapter introduces a different research method. These range from the well established, such as archival research, to the less widely known, such as Geographical Information Systems, and recent trends, such as textual analysis and material culture studies...read more

Product Description: History does not simply happen. Most often it is the result of years of graduate training, assiduous research, and careful writing. Without historians we would be ignorant of our history. Yet, far too often we focus on the final product and ignore the dedicated men and women who have dedicated their lives to producing the books...read more

Product Description: Book by Gabel, Creighton