The Historian's Toolbox: A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History by

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Now in its fifth edition, The Historian's Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offering an overview of the field and techniques for reading and writing about history.

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Now in its fifth edition, The Historian's Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offering an overview of the field and techniques for reading and writing about history.The fifth edition expands the selection of tools available to students entering the workshop of history. These include new chapters on digital history, Indigenous peoples, and gender history and new sections on the Voynich manuscript, LGBTQ+ history, slavery, and a historian who survived the war in Ukraine. The book has been fully updated to address the possibilities and limits of computerized approaches to doing history, with careful attention paid to the benefits and controversies of artificial intelligence, chatbots, and the internet. It demonstrates the continuing relevance of history in a cacophonous world of misinformation and censorship, emphasizing critical thinking, facts, and evidence as valuable means of understanding the past and shaping the future.Engaging and accessible, this volume is ideal for undergraduate courses in historiography and historical methods.

Author Biography

Robert C. Williams is Vail Professor of History Emeritus at Davidson College, where he was Dean of Faculty from 1986 to 1998. He is a Russian historian and the author of eighteen books and numerous articles. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and has taught at Bates, Davidson, and Williams colleges and at Washington University in St. Louis.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Craft of History 1. The Past 2. Story 3. History 4. Metahistory 5. Antihistory 6. The Present 7. The Future Part 2: The Tools of History 8. Doing History: An Overview 9. Sources and Evidence 10. Credit and Acknowledgment 11. Narrative and Explanation 12. Interpretation 13. Speculation Part 3: The Relevance of History 14. Everyday History 15. Oral History 16. Material Culture 17. Public History 18. Event Analysis 19. Digital History 20. Gender History 21. Indigenous Peoples 22. Epilogue: The End of History?

Details ISBN1032763876 Author Robert C. Williams Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Edition Description 5th edition Year 2024 Edition 5th ISBN-13 9781032763873 Format Hardcover Imprint Routledge Subtitle A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Replaces 9781138632165 Alternative 9781032755977 Illustrations 1 Tables, black and white; 27 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white Audience Tertiary & Higher Education ISBN-10 1032763876 Pages 230 DEWEY 907.2 Publication Date 2024-09-19 UK Release Date 2024-09-19 We've got this

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