How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the
knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William …

This paperback bestseller presents a series of case studies and thought-provoking essays
arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the …

A century ago, in 1915, DW Griffith famously prophesied that history books would be
replaced by movies and that in a not-so-distant future time “the children in the public schools …

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Everyone has a personal connection to the past, independent of historical inquiry. So, what
is the role of the historian? Making History argues that historians have damagingly …

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 …

The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first century The
Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with …

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 …

This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider
some of its most fundamental questions-what is the point of studying history? How do we …

For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and the writing of history,
Gertrude Himmelfarb adds four insightful and provocative essays dealing with changes in …