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| Illustrations and Tables | |
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| History as Fun | |
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| The Craft of History | |
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| The Past | |
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| Story | |
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| History | |
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| Metahistory | |
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| Antihistory | |
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| The Present | |
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| The Future | |
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| The Tools of History | |
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| Doing History: An Overview | |
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| Choosing a Good Paper Topic | |
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| Reading History | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| How to Write a Good History Paper | |
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| Sources and Evidence | |
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| Primary and Secondary Sources | |
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| Primary Source: The Wannsee Protocol (1942) | |
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| Secondary Source: Denying History: Who Says The Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (2000) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Documents | |
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| A Revolutionary War Ancestor's Pension Application (1832) | |
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| Maps | |
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| Sebastian Munster's Map of the Americas, c. 1540 | |
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| Artifacts | |
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| Digging Ancient Moscow | |
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| Images | |
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| Sharpshooter's Home or Photographer's Studio? | |
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| Cliometrics: Using Statistics to Prove a Point | |
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| The Black Population of Colonial America | |
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| Genetic Evidence | |
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| Welsh and Basques, Relatively Speaking | |
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| Jefferson and Sally Hemings-What's My Line? | |
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| Credit and Acknowledgment | |
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| Footnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Styling Your Bibliography | |
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| Types of Bibliographies | |
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| A Selective, Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Professional Plagiarism: How Not to Do History | |
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| Narrative and Explanation | |
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| The Language of the Historian | |
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| Paul Revere and the New England Village | |
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| Chronology | |
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| The Life of Margaret Fuller | |
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| Narrative | |
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| Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg | |
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| Argument | |
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| "Little Women" Who Helped Make This Great War | |
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| Causation | |
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| The Reasons Why | |
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| Explaining the Mann Gulch Fire of August 5, 1949 | |
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| Interpretation | |
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| Reviewing History | |
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| Bellesiles's Arming America | |
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| Historical Revision | |
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| The Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy (1822) | |
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| Historiography | |
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| World War II | |
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| Women's History: The Leo Frank Case | |
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| Speculation | |
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| Historical Speculation | |
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| Will the Real Martin Guerre Please Get an Identity? | |
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| History as Fiction | |
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| The Soldier Who Never Was | |
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| Conspiracies | |
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| Who Really Really Killed Lincoln? | |
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| Forgeries and Facsimiles | |
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| Is a Document Genuine? | |
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| Is a Collection of Documents Authentic? | |
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| How Can Forgeries Influence History? | |
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| Is a Newly Discovered Collection by a Well-Known Author Authentic? | |
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| If It Is a Forgery, Who Is the Forger? | |
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| Fiction as History | |
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| Film as History: Fact or Fiction? | |
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| Film Can Help the Historian Understand the Past | |
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| Films Can Hinder Our Understanding of the Historical Past | |
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| The Relevance of History | |
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| Everyday History | |
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| Studying Ordinary People | |
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| The Burgermeister's Daughter | |
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| Everyone's a Historian | |
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| Oral History | |
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| The Perils of Memory | |
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| Interviewees and Interviewers | |
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| The WPA Slave Narratives | |
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| Techniques of Oral History | |
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| Material Culture | |
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| Spirits in the Material World | |
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| The Refinement of America | |
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| Studying Material Culture | |
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| Public History | |
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| History Beyond the Ivory Tower | |
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| History and the Public | |
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| The Enola Gay Controversy | |
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| Event Analysis | |
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| History in Real Time | |
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| The Iraq War: Munich, Mukden, or Mexico? | |
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| History on the Internet | |
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| Using the Internet: Promises and Pitfalls | |
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| Wikipedia and "Wikiality" | |
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| Blogging the Past (and Present) | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |