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

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

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2004
- Runtime: 1 h 42 min
- By: MIT OpenCourseWare
- Genres: Education, Science, History, Fantasy
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/MIT21H.931S04)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/MIT21H.931S04?play=1)