Summer, 2008 – Historiography/Historical Methods

BOOKS:
• From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods
• A Pocket Guide to Writing in History
• Writing History: A Guide for Students
• Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing
• Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge
• Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse
• That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context)
• Telling the Truth About History
• Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past
• History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography (2nd Edition)

ARTICLES:
• Tilly, Charles (1990). How (and what) are historians doing? American Behavioral Scientist
• Volume 32, Number 2, 2003 – History of Education Quarterly (Journal). All articles. (Special issue on the theory and methodology in History of Education.)

COURSES:
American Public University – Accredited (North Central) Online Classes. May 5-August 24 – Auditing:
RC575 – Historiography Books included for this class:
• Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, 3rd Ed
• Modern Historiography: An Introduction
• The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory
RC576 – Historical Research Methods Books included for this class:
• Historians Fallacies: Toward Logic of Historical Thought
• Major Problems in American Military History
• Short Guide to Writing About History, 6th Ed

CONFERENCES:
ISCHE 30: International Standing Conference for the History of Education. Education and Inequality: Historical Approaches to Schooling and Social Stratification. Rutgers University, Newark NJ, July 23-26