Thinking About History

Thinking About History
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 262
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226109473
ISBN-13 : 022610947X
Rating : 4/5 (47X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Thinking About History by : Sarah Maza

Download or read book Thinking About History written by Sarah Maza and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it. Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view the nation as the inevitable context for history, and what happens when we move outside those boundaries? What is the relation among popular, academic, and public history, and how should we evaluate sources? What is the difference between description and interpretation, and how do we balance them? Maza provides choice examples in place of definitive answers, and the result is a book that will spark classroom discussion and offer students a view of history as a vibrant, ever-changing field of inquiry that is thoroughly relevant to our daily lives.


Thinking About History Related Books

Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Samuel S. Wineburg
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Critical Perspectives on the P

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how o
Thinking About History
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Sarah Maza
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-18 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introdu
Rethinking History
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: Keith Jenkins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-12-16 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore
Thinking Like a Historian
Language: en
Pages: 137
Authors: Nikki Mandell
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-19 - Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction by Nikki Mandell and Bobbie Malone is a teaching and learning framework that explains the essential el
Thinking History Globally
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: Diego Olstein
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-04 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book expla