The Princeton Guide to Historical Research (eBook)

Zachary Schrag (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2021
440 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21548-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.Zachary Schrag begins by explaining how to ask good questions and then guides readers step-by-step through all phases of historical research, from narrowing a topic and locating sources to taking notes, crafting a narrative, and connecting one's work to existing scholarship. He shows how researchers extract knowledge from the widest range of sources, such as government documents, newspapers, unpublished manuscripts, images, interviews, and datasets. He demonstrates how to use archives and libraries, read sources critically, present claims supported by evidence, tell compelling stories, and much more.Featuring a wealth of examples that illustrate the methods used by seasoned experts, The Princeton Guide to Historical Research reveals that, however varied the subject matter and sources, historians share basic tools in the quest to understand people and the choices they made.Offers practical step-by-step guidance on how to do historical research, taking readers from initial questions to final publicationConnects new digital technologies to the traditional skills of the historianDraws on hundreds of examples from a broad range of historical topics and approachesShares tips for researchers at every skill level

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.4.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Skills for Scholars
• Reihe/Serie: Skills for Scholars
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b/w illus. 1 table.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: adam hochschild • Advertising • Adviser • African Americans • americans • Anecdote • Annette Gordon-Reed • archaeology • Archival Research • Archive • archivist • Autobiography • Bibliography • Big History • Biography • Blog • Brown v. Board of Education • Career • Case study • Classroom • Confirmation Bias • Critical reading • curator • Database • deed • Designer • Digital Research • Dissertation • Edition (book) • Engineering • Essay • Eugenics • Explanation • exploration • Finding • First Book • Genre • George Mason University • Gerda Lerner • Google Books • graduate research • Headline • Henry F. Graff, The Modern Researcher • His Family • historian • historical figure • historical schools • Historiography • how-to books • Ideology • Illustration • Instance (computer science) • Institution • Intellectual history • jacques barzun • Katherine Pickering Antonova, The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays • Laptop • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich • Lerman • librarian • Literature • Local History • Manuscript • Memoir • military history • Monograph • narrative • newspaper • Note-taking • novelist • Optical Character Recognition • Oral History • Outline • Pamphlet • Paragraph • Periodization • Philosopher • plagiarism • Politician • Politics • Popular History • Prediction • primary source • Primary Sources • Project Management • Publication • Public History • Quotation mark • Racial segregation • Racism • Reference Manager • research manual • result • Scientist • secondary source • Secondary sources • Slavery • Storytelling • studying the past • style manual • taking notes • Tax • Technology • term paper • Textbook • Textual Sources • The Craft of Research • The Newspaper • The Other Hand • Thesis • thesis statement • Thucydides • Topic sentence • Trade-off • Twitter • undergraduate research • Website • word count • word processor • World War II • Writer • Writing • writing manual
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21548-0 / 0691215480
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21548-8 / 9780691215488