Considering studying history at university? Wondering whether a history degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it’s actually like to study history at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know. Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That’s where the Why Study series comes in. This series of books, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. Each book sets out to enthuse the reader about its subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.
Historical thinking, Wineburg shows us in Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), has nothing to do with test prep–style ability to memorize facts.
I think of John Winthrop on board the Arbella, proclaiming that God has ordained that “in all times some must be rich, some poor, some high and eminent in power and dignity; others mean and in submission;” or James Madison during the ...
This best-selling guide will help you get to grips with the larger themes and issues behind historical study, while also showing you how to formulate your own ideas in a clear, analytical style.
We have set down in this book the basic rules and principles of historical study that a student should bear in mind as he enters upon his first college history...
Studying History: How and why
This guide is an invitation to become a master of the historian’s craft.
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The power of the films is most poignantly conveyed by Alfred Kazin, a son of Russian immigrants, who described the effect of seeing The Battle of Russia at an army camp in southern Illinois in 1944. “It was a physical shock,” recounted ...
Lucid and engaging, this edition retains all the user-friendly features that have helped to make this book a favourite with both students and lecturers, including marginal glosses, illustrations and suggestions for further reading.
This edition includes a new preface and three new essays on ‘encountering things’ to enrich the volume. These look at cabinets of curiosities, American pearls, and the material culture of West Central Africa.