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xviii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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Preface -- New to this edition -- Introduction: What it means to be a historian -- Part I: Basic research -- 1. Historians and the research process : getting started -- How scholarly information is communicated -- What historians do and how they do it -- How to think historically -- Beginning your research -- Where do viable and interesting topics come from? -- Developing a question and formulating an argument -- The blueprint : concept maps, storyboarding, and outlines -- Taking notes -- Creating bibliographies and documenting sources -- The changing nature of historical research and what remains the same -- For further reading -- 2. Reference resources -- What are reference resources and when are they useful? -- How to find reference resources -- Types of reference resources -- Encyclopedias -- Bibliographies -- Multivolume general histories -- Biographical resources -- Chronologies -- Dictionaries, etymologies, and word origins -- Book reviews -- Directories -- Using the Internet as a reference resource -- Case study: Using reference resources to understand Herodotus -- 3. Finding monographs and using catalogs -- What is a book? The changing nature of monographs -- When are books the right choice for information? -- How to use a book artfully -- Finding monographs and using catalogs -- Navigating a library portal/finding the catalog -- Strategic searching : keyword vs. subject searching -- Keyword searching -- Subject searching -- Alternative searching : faceted catalogs and limiting -- How to read an online catalog record -- Finding monographs and using catalogs outside of your school -- Sources for catalogs -- Where else can I find monographs? -- Case study: Finding and using monographs : the spread of Islam in western Africa -- 4. Finding journals, magazines, and newspapers : using indexes -- What are periodicals (or journals, magazines, newspapers)? -- Journals vs. magazines -- Commentary periodicals -- The role of newspapers in secondary historical research -- Journal articles : the core of secondary periodical research -- How to read a journal article -- How to find articles : designing a search and using and index -- Using an online database : Historical abstracts and America : history and life -- Entering a keyword search in Historical abstracts -- What you will get : looking at your results -- Selecting other indexes -- E-journals and electronic collections of journals : JSTOR and Project Muse -- JSTOR, Project Muse, and periodical indexes -- Case study: Searching for periodical articles : Canton Trade System -- Selected historical indexes -- Selected periodical indexes of use to historians -- 5. Evaluating your sources -- Why evaluate your sources? -- Basic evaluation criteria -- Perspective and bias : historians and interpretation -- Scholarship or propaganda? -- Case study: Evaluating sources : Holocaust historians -- 6. The thrill of discovery : primary sources -- Definitions -- Nature and categories of primary sources -- Planning your project with primary sources -- Locating primary sources -- Digitization and electronic access to primary sources -- Published sources for mass consumption -- Books as primary sources -- Magazines and journals as primary sources -- Newspapers as primary sources -- Unpublished sources and manuscripts -- Catalogs, bibliographies, directories, and indexes for manuscripts -- Directories to archive repositories -- Documents from governments and other official bodies -- Indexes, full text sources, and bibliographies of government documents -- Directories/bibliographies for government/guides to government publications -- Genealogy and public records -- Guides for genealogy and public records -- Business records -- Directories and resources -- Oral history -- Guide to oral history repositories -- Material culture : buildings, artifacts, and objects -- History before 1400 : ancient and medieval cultures and those with substantial oral and material culture traditions -- Ancient history -- Medieval European history -- Indigenous peoples, former colonial nations, and African American history -- Using bibliographies to locate primary sources -- Bibliographies containing references to primary sources -- Evaluation -- Case study: Finding primary sources : tobacco through the ages -- For further reading -- Bibliography of advanced indexes to published primary sources |
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7. History and the Internet -- The Internet and research -- When is the Internet appropriate for historical research? -- Practicing history in the electronic age : using the Internet -- Using the Internet : the basics -- How do I access websites on the Internet? -- Search directories -- Search engines -- Meta-search engines -- What am I missing? The deep web or invisible web -- Special search techniques : finding primary sources on the Internet -- Searching for primary sources -- Historians communicating: using listservs and blogs for information -- Evaluation of websites -- General websites -- Evaluating sites concerned with primary sources -- Case study: Using the Internet : Japanese Americas and internment camps -- Part II: Advanced research techniques for primary sources -- 8. Digital history and big data -- What digital history is and is not -- Approaches to digital history -- How to perform simple digital textual analysis -- Digital textual analysis tools -- Examples of digital history projects -- Beginning your own digital history project -- For further reading -- 9. Maps : from simple to geographic information systems -- Maps as representations of our world -- A short history of maps and cartography -- Maps for navigation and commercial use -- Maps as political tools -- Maps as propaganda -- Maps marking territory -- Maps in war -- Components of modern maps -- Finding maps -- Categories of historical maps -- Map resources -- Gazetteers -- How to read a map -- Questions to ask when reading a map -- Planning your own map : simple to complex -- For further reading -- 10. Beyond the written word : finding, evaluating, and using images, motion pictures, and audio. The role of media in historical research : images throughout history -- Photography : real life captured? -- Art as visual media : painting and drawing -- Moving images : fact and fiction : newsreels, documentaries, motion pictures, and television programs -- Searching for visual media -- Collections of historic images -- Search engines and meta-search engines for images and indexes to image collections -- Images on the Internet : some cautions -- Digital video : using moving images -- Searching on the web -- Audio, music, and speech resources -- Searching for audio materials -- Copyright -- For further reading -- 11. Statistics : quantifying history. A society of statistics -- A short history of the evolution of statistical collection and analysis : What can you expect to find? -- Categorizing statistics : how they are collected and organized -- Demographics/vital statistics/census data -- Economic statistics -- Social statistics -- Public opinion and consumer preferences -- Gleaning statistics from primary sources -- Finding statistics -- How to think about the sources -- Search strategies -- Evaluating statistics : common problems with data collection and results -- Questions to evaluate data -- Data problems : signs that something is wrong -- Data sets : doing your own thing -- Selected resources -- Understanding statistics -- Collections of general statistics/statistical abstracts -- Almanacs and yearbooks -- Economic, financial, and commercial statistics -- General demographics and social characteristics -- Censuses -- Polls/public opinion -- Market research -- Major social surveys -- Bibliographies and indexes for statistics -- Finding and using data sets -- For further reading -- Case study: Contextualizing statistics -- Part III: Presenting your research -- 12. Presenting your research : traditional research paper, presentation, poster, or website? -- Creating a research paper -- Writing style -- Formulating an argument -- Paper construction -- Ebb and flow of paragraphs -- Public presenting -- Oral, slide, and poster presentations -- Creating a poster -- Creating websites for historical research -- Historical and scholarly websites -- Website design : how to begin -- Preplanning : the major considerations -- Navigation -- What every good website must have -- Writing text for the web -- Common mistakes to avoid on websites -- Case study: A student paper : "Americans and the bomb" -- For further reading -- Appendix A: Citation examples -- Appendix B: Information literacy guidelines and competencies for undergraduate History students -- Appendix C: Research checklist |
| Bibliography |
Comprend des références bibliographiques et un index |
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History -- Methodology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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History -- Research -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Information literacy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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History -- Methodology.
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History -- Research.
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Information literacy.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| LC no. |
2017049339 |
| ISBN |
019085149X |
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9780190851491 |
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