Part I Historical Thinking 1

1 The Uses of History 3
Exercises Set A 8
Exercises Set B 10

2 The Nature of History: History as Reconstruction 13
Exercises Set A 21
Exercises Set B 24

3 Historical Thinking: Continuity and Change 27
Exercises Set A 37
Exercises Set B 39

4 Historical Thinking: Multiple Causality in History 43
Exercises Set A 55
Exercises Set B 60

5 Historical Thinking: Context 65
Exercises Set A 73
Exercises Set B 77

6 History Writing: Telling a Story 83
Exercises Set A 91
Exercises Set B 98

Part II Confronting the Historical Account 101

7 Libraries: Real and Virtual 103
Exercises Set A 115
Exercises Set B 124

8 Reading History 131
Exercises Set A 141
Exercises Set B 149

9 History on Film 151
Exercise 165
Part III Doing History 167

10 Evidence 169
Exercises Set A 179
Exercises Set B 188

11 Oral Histories, Statistics, and Photographs 197
Exercises Set A 211
Exercises Set B 214

12 Interpretation 217
Exercises Set A 227
Exercises Set B 234

13 Writing For Your Reader 241
Exercises Set A 249
Exercises Set B 250

Part IV Historiography 253

14 The History of History 255
Exercise 269

15 History and the Disciplines 271
Exercises 279

Appendix A: Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri River: Documents 287
Appendix B: Source References and Bibliographies 295
Appendix C: Sample Oral History Release Form 299
Suggestions for Further Reading 301
Index 307

Writing Capsules
1. Coherent Paragraphs: The Topic Sentence 10
2. The Literature Review 35
3. Essays: The Introduction 76
4. Integrating Quotations 97
5. The Précis 148
6. Coherent Paragraphs: Transitions 244