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About the Publisher
Mavs Open Press
Accessibility Statement
About This Project
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. What is History?
2. What is Historical Analysis?
3. How Historians Approach History: Fields and Periodization
4. Evaluating Evidence
5. The Stakes of Historical Scholarship
6. Choosing and Narrowing a Topic
7. Locating Sources
8. Archives and Historical Research
9. Organizing Research: Taking and Keeping Effective Notes
10. Database Building
11. Geography and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
12. Oral History and the Historical Process
13. Digital History
14. How to Read a Historical Monograph
15. How to Read Other Secondary Sources
16. How to Read Primary Sources, Part I: The Basics
17. How to Read Primary Sources, Part II: Evaluating Non-written Primary Sources
18. Preparing to Write: Organizing and Outlines
19. Standards of Historical Writing
20. When to use Citations and Quotations
21. Chicago Manual of Style: The “frenemy” of all history students
22. Writing for Other Than Research Analysis
23. Communicating Findings
24. Becoming a Professional Historian
25. Becoming an Archivist
26. Becoming a Public Historian
27. Pursuing Success in College
28. Teamwork
29. Resilience
30. Time Management
31. Life Skills
32. General Resources
33. Maverick Advantage
34. Leadership
35. Advice from the Undergraduate Advisors
36. The BA Degree
37. Intership Program
38. Consider Grad School
39. Professional Development
40. Marketable Skills and the CV/Resume
Bibliography
Appendix A - Database Rules and Datatypes
Appendix B - Working With Multiple Tables
Appendix C - Database Troubleshooting and Coding
Appendix D - Database Design and Parts of a Database
Appendix E - Writing Criteria/ Example Rubric
Image Credits
Accessibility Rubric
Errata and Versioning History
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How History is Made: A Student’s Guide to Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Discipline Copyright © 2022 by Stephanie Cole; Kimberly Breuer; Scott W. Palmer; and Brandon Blakeslee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.