MIT 21H.931 Seminar in Historical Methods, Spring 2004

About

Instructor: Prof. Anne McCants

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.

View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21H-931S04

Archive

Internet Archive, in MIT OpenCourseWare

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CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, as the Internet Archive states it.

Credit

MIT OpenCourseWare

Language

English

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