critical-thinking/course_outline/course11-Historical Reasoning

Resources

Historical Methods

• UMASS Outline of Historical Procedure
• E.H. Carr: What Is History?
• Creating a Usable Past
• Historical Thinking Guidelines
• The Historical Thinking Project
• American Historical Organization

1. Historiography
2. Philosophy of History
3. Methods in Archaeology
4. Hermeneutics
5. Historocity
6. Process Tracing
7. Thematic Analysis
8. Content Analysis
9. Historical Criticism
10. 5 C's of Historical Thinking
11. 9 C's of Historical Thinking
12. 12 C's of Historical Thinking
13. Historical Thinking
14. Theories of History
15. Thucydides
16. Herodotus
17. Cliodynamics
18. Cliometrics
19. Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
20. Integrated Action Civics Project
21. Misinformation_effect
22. Historical Fiction
23. Narrative Techniques
24. Narrative Forms
25. Narratology

Dr. Darren Staloff, Philosophy of History series

1. Dr. Darren Staloff, Philosophies, Theories, and Interpretations of Human History
2. Dr. Darren Staloff, Mircea Eliade's Cosmos and History and Cyclical Time
3. Dr. Darren Staloff, Vico's New Science of History
4. Dr. Darren Staloff, Kant's Idea for a Universal History
5. Dr. Darren Staloff, Arnold Toynbee and World Historical Speculation
6. Dr. Darren Staloff, Hegel's Philosophy of History
7. Dr. Darren Staloff, Nietzsche's Critique of Historical Consciousness
8. Dr. Darren Staloff, R.G. Collingwood's "The Idea of History"
9. Dr. Darren Staloff, The Positivist Conception of Historical Knowledge
10. Dr. Darren Staloff, Arthur Danto's Narration and Knowledge
11. Dr. Darren Staloff, Fernand Braudel's "On History"
12. Dr. Darren Staloff, Post Structuralism and the Linguistic Turn
13. Dr. Darren Staloff, William McNeill's "Plagues and Peoples"
14. Dr. Darren Staloff, The Heterogeneity of Historical Knowledge

Methodology

1. Pop History and its Consequences

Critical Questions for Historical Sources

1. Are records acknowledged as fallible? Is it possible there are errors or mistakes?
2. Are records first-hand accounts?
3. Are records contemporary with claimed events? Are they recorded after the fact?
4. Are events independently corroborated?
5. Are events plausible under the known laws of physics and other basic scientific regularities established?
6. Are records verified by concrete relics?
7. Have records been reliably preserved?
8. Are records preserved in their native language? Were there translations?
9. Are the authors politically and socially unbiased?
10. Have the authors motivations been explicated?