Jenny L. Presnell

The Information-Literate Historian

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Produktbeschreibung

The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students is the only book specifically designed to teach today's history students how to successfully select and use sources--primary, secondary, and electronic--to carry out and present their research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 145mm x 201mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780197749869
• ISBN-10: 0197749860
• Artikelnr.: 70436867

Autorenporträt

Jenny L. Presnell is a Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian at Miami University, Ohio

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface xv
* New to This Edition xvii
* Introduction: What It Means to Be a Historian 1
* Part I Basic Research 3
* 1. Historians and the Research Process: Getting Started 5
* How Scholarly Information Is Communicated 5
* What Historians Do and How They Do It 6
* How to Think Historically 8
* Beginning Your Research 13
* Where Do Viable and Interesting Topics Come From? 13
* Developing a Question and Formulating an Argument 14
* The Blueprint: Concept Maps, Storyboarding, and Outlines 16
* Taking Notes 19
* Creating Bibliographies and Documenting Sources 20
* The Changing Nature of Historical Research and What Remains the Same
23
* For Further Reading 23
* 2. Reference Resources 28
* What Are Reference Resources and When Are They Useful? 28
* How to Find Reference Resources 30
* Types of Reference Resources 30
* Encyclopedias 30
* Bibliographies 36
* Multivolume General Histories 38
* Biographical Resources 39
* Chronologies 42
* Dictionaries, Etymologies, and Word Origins 43
* Book Reviews 45
* Using the Internet as a Reference Resource 47
* Case Study: Using Reference Resources to Understand Herodotus 48
* 3. Searching Basics
* Searching For Sources: The Beginnings
* The Complexities of Searching for Information
* Strategic Searching: Keyword vs Subject
* Beginning a Search
* Planning a Search
* Alternative Searching: Using Facets to Limit a Search
* Advanced Searching: Using Subjects and Controlled Vocabulary
* Conclusion
* Further Reading
* 4. Finding Monographs and Using Catalogs 51
* What Is a Book? The Changing Nature of Monographs 51
* When Are Books the Right Choice for Information? 52
* How to Use a Book Artfully 54
* Finding Monographs and Using Catalogs 56
* Navigating a Library Portal/Finding the Catalog 56
* How to Read an Online Catalog Record 64
* Finding Monographs and Using Catalogs Outside of Your School 64
* Case Study: Finding and Using Monographs: The Spread of Islam in
Western
* Africa 70
* 5. Finding Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers: Using Indexes 73
* What Are Periodicals (or Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers)? 73
* Journals vs. Magazines 75
* Commentary Periodicals 77
* The Role of Newspapers in Secondary Historical Research 78
* Journal Articles: The Core of Secondary Periodical Research 78
* How to Read a Journal Article 79
* How to Find Articles: Designing a Search and Using an Index 80
* Using an Online Database: Historical Abstracts and America: History
and Life 83
* Entering a Keyword Search in Historical Abstracts 84
* What You Will Get: Looking at Your Results 86
* Selecting Other Indexes 88
* JSTOR
* Case Study: Searching for Periodical Articles: Canton Trade System 90
* Selected Historical Indexes 92
* Selected Periodical Indexes of Use to Historians 94
* 6. History and the Internet 164
* The Internet and Research 164
* When Is the Internet Appropriate for Historical Research? 165
* Searching the Internet
* Searching for Secondary Sources
* Searching for Primary Sources
* Historians Communicating: Using Listservs and Blogs for Information
181
* Case Study: Using the Internet: Japanese Americans and Internment
Camps 185
* For Further Reading 186
* 7. Evaluating Your Sources 98
* Why Evaluate Your Sources? 98
* Basic Evaluation Criteria 99
* Perspective and Bias: Historians and Interpretation 102
* Scholarship or Propaganda? 102
* "Fake" News and Misinformation
* Case Study: Evaluating Sources: Holocaust Historians 106
* For Further Reading
* 8. The Thrill of Discovery: Primary Sources 108
* Definitions 109
* Nature and Categories of Primary Sources 110
* Planning Your Project with Primary Sources 112
* Locating Primary Sources 112
* Digitization and Electronic Access to Primary Sources 116
* Published Sources for Mass Consumption 117
* Books as Primary Sources 118
* Magazines and Journals as Primary Sources 121
* Newspapers as Primary Sources 124
* Unpublished Sources and Manuscripts 130
* Catalogs, Bibliographies, Directories, and Indexes for Manuscripts
133
* Documents from Governments and Other Official Bodies 136
* Indexes, Full-Text Sources, and Bibliographies of Government
Documents 137
* Directories/Bibliographies for Governments/Guides to Government
* Publications 139
* Genealogy and Public Records 139
* Guides for Genealogy and Public Records 141
* Business Records 142
* Directories and Resources 143
* Oral History 143
* Guide to Oral History Repositories 144
* Material Culture: Buildings, Artifacts, and Objects 145
* History before 1400: Ancient and Medieval Cultures and Those with
Substantial Oral
* and Material Culture Traditions 147
* Ancient History 148
* Medieval European History 150
* Indigenous Peoples, Former Colonial Nations, and African American
* History 153
* Using Bibliographies to Locate Primary Sources 155
* Bibliographies Containing References to Primary Sources 156
* Evaluation of Primary Sources
* Case Study: Finding Primary Sources: Tobacco through the Ages 158
* For Further Reading 160
* Bibliography of Advanced Indexes to Published Primary Sources 161
* Part II Advanced Research Techniques for Primary Sources 189
* 9. Maps: From Simple to Geographic Information Systems 199
* Maps as Representations of Our World 199
* A Short History of Maps and Cartography 200
* Maps for Navigation and Commercial Use 201
* Maps as Political Tools 201
* Maps as Propaganda 202
* Maps Marking Territory 203
* Maps in War 203
* Components of Modern Maps 203
* Finding Maps 205
* Categories of Historical Maps 205
* Map Resources 206
* Gazetteers 208
* How to Read a Map 209
* Questions to Ask When Reading a Map 209
* Planning Your Own Map: Simple to Complex 210
* For Further Reading 213
* 10. Beyond the Written Word: Finding, Evaluating, and Using Images,
* Motion Pictures, and Audio 218
* The Role of Media in Historical Research: Images throughout History
219
* Photography: Real Life Captured? 219
* Art as Visual Media: Painting and Drawing 222
* Moving Images: Fact and Fiction: Newsreels, Documentaries, Motion
Pictures,
* and Television Programs 224
* Searching for Visual Media 227
* Collections of Historic Images 229
* Search Engines and Meta-Search Engines for Images and Indexes to
Image
* Collections 231
* Images on the Internet: Some Cautions 231
* Digital Video: Using Moving Images 232
* Searching on the Web 233
* Audio, Music, and Speech Resources 234
* Searching for Audio Materials 237
* Copyright 239
* For Further Reading 240
* 11. Digital History and Big Data 191
* What Digital History Is and Is Not 191
* Approaches to Digital History 192
* How to Perform Simple Digital Textual Analysis 193
* Digital Textual Analysis Tools 193
* Examples of Digital History Projects 195
* Beginning Your Own Digital History Project 196
* For Further Reading 197
* 12. Statistics: Quantifying History 245
* A Society of Statistics 245
* A Short History of the Evolution of Statistical Collection and
Analysis: What Can
* You Expect to Find? 246
* Categorizing Statistics: How They Are Collected and Organized 248
* Demographics/Vital Statistics/Census Data 248
* Economic Statistics 249
* Social Statistics 250
* Public Opinion and Consumer Preferences 250
* Gleaning Statistics from Primary Sources 251
* Finding Statistics 252
* How to Think about the Sources 252
* Search Strategies 253
* Evaluating Statistics: Common Problems with Data Collection and
Results 258
* Questions to Evaluate Data 259
* Data Problems: Signs That Something Is Wrong 259
* Data Sets: Doing Your Own Thing 260
* Selected Resources 261
* Understanding Statistics 261
* Collections of General Statistics/Statistical Abstracts 262
* Almanacs and Yearbooks 263
* Economic, Financial, and Commercial Statistics 264
* General Demographics and Social Characteristics 265
* Censuses 266
* Polls/Public Opinion 266
* Market Research 268
* Major Social Surveys 268
* Bibliographies and Indexes for Statistics 269
* Finding and Using Data Sets 269
* For Further Reading 270
* Case Study: Contextualizing Statistics 270
* Part III Presenting Your Research 275
* 13. Presenting Your Research: Traditional Research Paper,
Presentation,
* Poster, or Website? 277
* Creating a Research Paper 278
* Writing Style 278
* Formulating an Argument 280
* Paper Construction 281
* Ebb and Flow of Paragraphs 282
* Public Presenting 283
* Oral, Slide, and Poster Presentations 283
* Creating a Poster 286
* Creating Websites for Historical Research 287
* Historical and Scholarly Websites 287
* Website Design: How to Begin 290
* Other Forms of Presentation
* Case Study: A Student Paper: "Americans and the Bomb" 300
* For Further Reading 310
* Appendix A: Citation Examples 313
* Appendix B: Information Literacy Guidelines and Competencies for
* Undergraduate History Students 315
* Appendix C: Research Checklist 319
* Index 321