Additional Resources for History 3001

Documents

1.  Peter N. Stearns, "Why Study History", American Historical Association, available from http:// www.theaha.org/info/AHA_History/clbecker.htm

2.  Carl Becker, "What is Historiography", The American Historical Review, Vol. 44, No.1 (Oct.,1938), 20-28.

3. Carl Becker, "Everyman His Own Historian", Presidential Address, The American Historical Association, 1931

3.  Charles A. Beard, "Written History as an Act of Faith",  Presidential Address, American Historical Association, 1933.

4.  Daniel Boorstin on Charles Beard,  Paperbacks: History and the Constitution

5.  Samuel Eliot Morison, "Faith of a Historian", American Historical Association, Presidential Address, 1950, available from http://www.theaha.org/info/AHA_History/semorison.htm

6.  Bernard Bailyn, "The Challenge of Modern Historiography", The American Historical Review, Vol.87, No.1 (Feb., 1982), 1-24. 

7. Lawrence W. Levine, "The Unpredictable Past: Reflections on Recent American Historiography", The American Historical Review, Vol. 94, Issue 3 (Jun.,1989), 671-679.

8. Elliott J. Gorn, "Professing History: Distinguishing Between Memory and the Past", Chronicle of Higher Education, April 28, 2000

9. Thucydides description of the Melian debate with Athens

10. Gerald N. Grob and George Athan Billias, "Introduction"Interpretations of American History: Patterns and Perspectives, 1992.

11. Alun Munslow, What History Is

 


Lecture Notes

1.  Notes on Historical Methods

2. Notes on American Historiography

3. Notes on Gilderhus, History and Historians