Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional
oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college …

The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much-needed critical
introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas …

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In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since
the early 18th century, A History of History confronts several basic assumptions about the …

Philosophers of history in the past few decades have been predominantly interested in
issues of explanation and narrative discourse. Consequently, they have focused consistently …

If you want to provide an information service that truly fulfils your users' needs, this book is
essential reading. Analysing and assessing the information needs of clients is key to the …

This book takes a fresh look at the connection between history and policy, proposing that
historians rediscover a sense of 'public purpose'that can embrace political decision-making …

The 19th century German historian and important co-founder of modern historical science
Leopold Ranke once defined a historian as a person who 'merely wants to show how it …

Archives are one of the oldest and most utilized sources of data known to researchers. For
centuries scholars have used written texts and visual images to piece together histories of …

In this paper we describe the criteria of Technology I, II, and III, which some instructional
theorists have proposed to describe the differences between a formulaic and a reflective …