In the past thirty years, historians have broadened the scope of their discipline to include
many previously neglected topics and perspectives. They have chronicled language …

TRADITIONALLY, FOR HISTORIANS, the ethical core of our professional commitment has
been a belief that our arduous, often tedious labor yields some authentic knowledge of the …

Written in an engaging and entertaining style, this widely-used how-to guide introduces
readers to the theory, craft, and methods of history and provides a series of tools to help …

Celebrated for bringing a personal touch to history in her Pulitzer Prize–winning epic The
Guns of August and other classic books, Barbara W. Tuchman reflects on world events and …

The Logic of History reveals the rational basis for historians' descriptions, interpretations and
explanations of past events. C. Behan McCullagh defends the practice of history as more …

We have lost our grip on historical truth. Popular films depict subterranean conspiracies that
shape historical events and public knowledge of those events. Best-selling narrative …

Myth and history are close kin inasmuch as both explain how things got to be the way they
are by telling some sort of story. But our common parlance reckons myth to be false while …

This book questions essential to the student of history-What is history?; Why do History?;
and How does one do history? Marwick has totally recast and rewritten the first version of the …

Like scholars in other fields, historians have long occupied themselves in self-justification. In
a society which calibrates all measures by a single standard, the proof of scientific worth …

Page 1 WHAT IF? The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been ROBERT
COWLEY BERKLEY Page 2 Essays by Stephen E. Ambrose John Keegan David McCullough …