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Seminar in Historical Methods

Prof. Anne McCants · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

This course is designed to acquaint students with a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century. The books we read have all made significant contributions to their respective sub-fields and have been selected to give as wide a coverage in both field and methodology as possible in one semester’s worth of reading. We examine how historians conceive of their object of study, how they use primary sources as a basis for their accounts, how they structure the narrative and analytic discussion of their topic, and what are the advantages and drawbacks of their various approaches.

Lectures

Video Lectures

  1. Session 1 1 h 43 min · Video
  2. Session 2 1 h 46 min · Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
History
Teacher
Prof. Anne McCants
Term
Spring 2004
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
History
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Prof. Anne McCants. Seminar in Historical Methods. Spring 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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