HIST 300 Writing and Research in History
Below are the handouts and guides related to this class. All online readings are available either through the WSUV Library electronic reserves system, web site, or the database indicated.
THE KEYS TO THE COURSE
- Syllabus: HIST300S12syl.pdf
- Writing Guide: Fountain Writing Guide vJ2.pdf
- Guide to Citations: Fountain Citation Guide vj2.pdf
HOW-TO
- WSUV Library History Guides (including Zotero and Historical Database help)
- Learning Historical Research
- How To Read History: HTRHistory.pdf
- Zotero: article Zotero.pdf & dowload site
GUIDES
- Key Turabian Sections: Turabian key pages.pdf
- Chicago Manual of Style Mini-Guide
- Project Proposal Guide: Project Proposal.pdf
- Sample 300 Proposal: SampleResearchProposal.pdf
- Peer Review: checksheet PR checksheet.pdf & 3-step process PR3step.pdf
OTHER ITEMS
- Adobe Reader (will need latest version to ensure you can open all documents)
- "Historians Politely Remind Nation..."
COURSE READINGS
• Mark C. Carnes, ed., Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (New York: Henry Holt, 1995). (on 1-hour reserve at the WSUV Library Circulation Desk)
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts," Perspectives 35, no. 8 (1997): 37-38. http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/1997/9711/9711VIE1.cfm
• Lynne V. Cheney, "The End of History," Wall Street Journal, Oct. 20, 1994. (access via Proquest Newspaper Library database) http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/databases/p
• James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, "The Strange Death of Silas Deane," in After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, 5th edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004), xi-xxix. (access via WSUV eReserves) http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/find-course-reserves
• Miles Fairburn, “Introduction” in Social History: Problems, Strategies and Methods (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 1-11. (access via WSUV eReserves) http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/find-course-reserves
• Martin Irvine, "Approaches to Po-Mo." http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/pomo.html
• Karl Marx and Friederich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61
• María E. Montoya, "From Homogeneity to Complexity: Understanding the Urban West," Western Historical Quarterly 42, no. 3 (2011): 344-348. (access via WSUV eReserves) http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/find-course-reserves
• Ron Rosenbaum, "Everything You Need To Know About Hitler's 'Missing' Testicle," Slate, Nov. 28, 2008. http://www.slate.com/id/2205359
• William W. Savage, Jr., “The New Western History: Youngest Whore on the Block,” AB Bookman's Weekly, Oct. 4, 1993, 1242-1247. (access via WSUV eReserves) http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/find-course-reserves
• Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (New York: Gotham Books, 2004), 71-76, 128-131. (access via WSUV eReserves) http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/find-course-reserves
• Eric R. Wolf, Europe and the People without History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), ix-x, 3-7. (access via WSUV eReserves) http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/find-course-reserves
• Gordon S. Wood, "In Defense of Academic History Writing," Perspectives 48, no. 4 (2010): 19-20. http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2010/1004/1004art1.cfm