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Now updated and expanded for the electronic age, this best-selling "how-to" manual introduces students, teachers, and anyone interested in history to the theory, craft, and methods of the discipline and provides a series of "tools" to help them read, research, and understand the past. The first part of the book is a stimulating introduction to the key elements of history - evidence, narrative, judgement - that explores how the study and concepts of history have evolved over the centuries. The second part guides readers through the "workshop" of history. Unlocking the historian's "toolbox," it reveals the tricks of the trade including documents, sources, footnotes, bibliographies, chronologies, and more. This section also covers issues of interpretation, speculation, professional ethics, and controversial issues such as plagiarism, historical hoaxes, and conspiracy theories. New for this expanded edition, part three of the book includes chapters on everyday history, oral history, material culture, public history, event analysis, and history on the Internet that will resonate with a new generation of readers. Written in an engaging and entertaining style, and filled with interesting examples, "The Historian's Toolbox" opens up an exciting world of historical research for anyone interested in the past.

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• Illustrations and Tables(p. xi)
• History as Fun(p. xiii)
• Part I The Craft of History
• 1 The Past(p. 3)
• 2 Story(p. 7)
• 3 History(p. 11)
• 4 Metahistory(p. 20)
• 5 Antihistory(p. 27)
• 6 The Present(p. 33)
• 7 The Future(p. 39)
• Part II The Tools of History
• 8 Doing History: An Overview(p. 47)
• 8.1 Choosing a Good Paper Topic(p. 47)
• 8.2 Reading History(p. 48)
• 8.3 Taking Notes(p. 51)
• 8.4 How to "Write a Good History Paper(p. 52)
• 9 Sources and Evidence(p. 56)
• 9.1 Primary and Secondary Sources(p. 56)
• Primary Source: The Wannsee Protocol (1942)(p. 57)
• Secondary Source: Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (2000)(p. 57)
• Summary(p. 59)
• 9.2 Documents(p. 59)
• A Revolutionary War Ancestor's Pension Application (1832)(p. 59)
• 9.3 Maps(p. 61)
• Sebastian Munster's Map of the Americas, c. 1540(p. 61)
• 9.4 Artifacts(p. 64)
• Digging Ancient Moscow(p. 64)
• 9.5 Images(p. 66)
• Sharpshooter's Home or Photographer's Studio?(p. 66)
• 9.6 Cliometrics: Using Statistics to Prove a Point(p. 70)
• The Black Population of Colonial America(p. 70)
• 9.7 Genetic Evidence(p. 72)
• Welsh and Basques, Relatively Speaking(p. 72)
• Jefferson and Sally Hemings-What's My Line?(p. 73)
• 10 Credit and Acknowledgment(p. 79)
• 10.1 Footnotes(p. 79)
• 10.2 Bibliography(p. 81)
• Styling Your Bibliography(p. 81)
• Types of Bibliographies(p. 82)
• A Selective, Annotated Bibliography(p. 82)
• 10.3 Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism(p. 83)
• 10.4 Professional Plagiarism: How Not to Do History(p. 86)
• 11 Narrative and Explanation(p. 90)
• 11.1 The Language of the Historian(p. 90)
• Paul Revere and the New England Village(p. 91)
• 11.2 Chronology(p. 95)
• The Life of Margaret Fuller(p. 95)
• 11.3 Narrative(p. 98)
• Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg(p. 98)
• 11.4 Argument(p. 102)
• "Little Women" Who Helped Make This Great War(p. 103)
• 11.5 Causation(p. 104)
• 11.6 The Reasons Why(p. 106)
• Explaining the Mann Gulch Fire of August 5, 1949(p. 107)
• 12 Interpretation(p. 110)
• 12.1 Reviewing History(p. 110)
• Bellesiles's Arming America(p. 110)
• 12.2 Historical Revision(p. 114)
• The Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy (1822)(p. 114)
• 12.3 Historiography(p. 117)
• World War II(p. 118)
• 12.4 Women's History: The Leo Frank Case(p. 121)
• 13 Speculation(p. 126)
• 13.1 Historical Speculation(p. 126)
• Will the Real Martin Guerre Please Get an Identity?(p. 126)
• 13.2 History as Fiction(p. 128)
• The Soldier Who Never Was(p. 129)
• 13.3 Conspiracies(p. 131)
• Who Really Really Killed Lincoln?(p. 131)
• 13.4 Forgeries and Facsimiles(p. 134)
• Is a Document Genuine?(p. 134)
• Is a Collection of Documents Authentic?(p. 135)
• How Can Forgeries Influence History?(p. 136)
• Is a Newly Discovered Collection by a Well-Known Author Authentic?(p. 137)
• If It Is a Forgery, Who Is the Forger?(p. 137)
• 13.5 Fiction as History(p. 138)
• 13.6 Film as History: Fact or Fiction?(p. 141)
• Film Can Help the Historian Understand the Past(p. 141)
• Films Can Hinder Our Understanding of the Historical Past(p. 143)
• Part III The Relevance of History
• 14 Everyday History(p. 149)
• 14.1 Studying Ordinary People(p. 149)
• The Burgermeister's Daughter(p. 149)
• 14.2 Everyone's a Historian(p. 151)
• 15 Oral History(p. 154)
• 15.1 The Perils of Memory(p. 154)
• 15.2 Interviewees and Interviewers(p. 156)
• The WPA Slave Narratives(p. 157)
• 15.3 Techniques of Oral History(p. 159)
• 16 Material Culture(p. 161)
• 16.1 Spirits in the Material World(p. 161)
• Richard Bushman and The Refinement of America(p. 162)
• 16.2 Studying Material Culture(p. 164)
• 17 Public History(p. 166)
• 17.1 History Beyond the Ivory Tower(p. 166)
• 17.2 History and the Public(p. 167)
• The Enola Gay Controversy(p. 168)
• 18 Event Analysis(p. 172)
• 18.1 History in Real Time(p. 172)
• The Iraq War: Munich, Mukden, or Mexico?(p. 173)
• 19 History on the Internet(p. 177)
• 19.1 Using the Internet: Promises and Pitfalls(p. 177)
• 19.2 Wikipedia and "Wikiality"(p. 179)
• 19.3 Blogging the Past (and Present)(p. 181)
• Glossary(p. 183)
• Selected Bibliography(p. 191)
• Index(p. 195)