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| Preface to the Sixth Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| Principles and Methods of Research | |
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| Research and Report: Characteristics | |
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| The Report: A Fundamental Form | |
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| The Historical Outlook Underlies Research and Report | |
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| Reporting History in Daily Life | |
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| The Past Is All-Inclusive | |
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| The Research Reporter and Scholar | |
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| Historical Writing: Its Origins and Demands | |
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| The ABC of Technique | |
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| The Prime Difficulty: What Is My Subject? | |
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| I Have All My Material--But Have You? | |
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| The Practical Imagination at Work | |
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| A Note Is First a Thought | |
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| Knowledge for Whom? | |
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| Hard Work Makes Royal Roads | |
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| Finding the Facts | |
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| The Detective and the Clues | |
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| Library and Internet | |
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| A Surfeit of Sources | |
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| Defining the Quarry | |
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| Cross-Questioning the Book | |
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| Professional Informants: Reference Books | |
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| Up-to-Date Reference Works | |
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| Contemporary Opinion Now and Earlier | |
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| Finding One's Peers and One's Ancestors | |
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| Facts and Numbers from Maps | |
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| What Else Do I Need? | |
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| Verification | |
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| How the Mind Seeks Truth | |
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| Collation, or Matching Copy with Source | |
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| Rumor, Legend, and Fraud | |
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| Falsification on the Increase | |
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| Attribution: Putting a Name to a Document | |
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| Explication: Clearing Up Details in Manuscripts | |
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| Destroying Myths | |
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| Identification: Giving Due Credit for Authorship | |
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| The Snare of Pseudonyms | |
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| Handling Ideas | |
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| Fact and Idea: An Elusive Distinction | |
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| Large Ideas as Facts of History | |
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| Technical Terms: All or None | |
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| The Technique of Self-Criticism | |
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| Reporters' Fallacies: How to Avoid Them | |
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| The Scholar and the Great Ideas | |
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| Truth, Causes, and Conditions | |
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| The Types of Evidence | |
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| Probability the Guide | |
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| Clio and the Doctors | |
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| Assertion versus Suggestion | |
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| Note Qualifiers in All Conclusions | |
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| Skepticism under Control | |
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| Subjective and Objective: The Right Meanings | |
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| Knowledge of Fact and Knowledge of Causes | |
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| On Cause and Measurement | |
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| Pattern, Bias, and Revisionism | |
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| The Reason of Historical Periods and Labels | |
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| The Conditions of Pattern-Making | |
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| The Sources of Bias and Its Correctives | |
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| The View from Inside | |
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| Revisionism Good and Bad | |
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| The Philosophy and "Laws" of History | |
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| Writing, Speaking, and Publishing | |
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| Organizing: Paragraph, Chapter, and Part | |
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| The Function of Form and of Forms | |
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| The Steps in Organizing | |
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| The Chapter: Role, Size, and Title | |
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| Composing: By Instinct or by Outline? | |
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| Troubleshooting after Lapses | |
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| The Book Review and the Paragraph | |
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| Plain Words: The War on Jargon and Cliches | |
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| Keep Aware of Words | |
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| The State of the Language | |
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| Jargon: Origin and Sources | |
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| Be Strict about Signposts | |
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| Picture All Verbal Images | |
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| Decide Which Images Are Alive | |
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| Give Up Omnibus Words and Dressing Gowns | |
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| Observe Idiom and Implications | |
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| Clear Sentences: Emphasis, Tone, and Rhythm | |
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| Live Sentences for Lively Thoughts | |
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| Mismatching of Parts | |
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| Five-Legged Sheep and Other Monsters | |
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| Modern Prose: Its Virtues and Vices | |
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| Punctuating for Smooth Reading | |
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| Carpentry or Cabinetmaking? | |
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| The Sound of the Sense | |
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| The Arts of Quoting and Translating | |
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| Three Recurrent Tasks | |
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| The Philosophy of Quoting | |
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| The Mechanics of Quotation | |
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| Difficulties and Dangers of Translation | |
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| Dictionaries and "False Friends" | |
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| Literalism and Paraphrase | |
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| To Translate Is to "Carry Over" | |
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| The Rules of Citing: Footnotes and Bibliography | |
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| Types and Functions of Footnotes | |
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| Footnote Form and Forms | |
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| Footnoting: When, Where, How Much? | |
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| The Bibliography: Varieties and Forms | |
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| Revising for Printer and Public | |
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| Errors and Their Ways | |
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| Judging the Merits of a Work | |
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| Revision: Maxims and Pointers | |
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| Revision: Marks and Symbols | |
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| The Professional Touch | |
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| The Handle to a Writer's Works | |
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| Revision: The Printer and You | |
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| The Final Pages: The Index | |
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| Copyright: To Protect and Defend | |
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| Modes of Presentation | |
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| Composing: By Hand or by Machine? | |
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| Advantages versus Drawbacks | |
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| A Few Rudiments for Beginners | |
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| The Whole Circle of Work: Editing a Classic | |
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| Speaking What You Have Learned | |
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| Heading Committees and Seminars | |
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| The Etiquette of Leadership | |
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| Making the Most of Time | |
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| A Few More Recommendations | |
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| InfoTrac College Edition Terms | |
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| Index | |