Intended as a complement to Melanie Gustafson's, Becoming a Historian, this volume gathers articles from Perspectives that take an in-depth look at specific options on the career paths for history PhD
This sweeping overview of Norwegian-American literature goes beyond fiction, poetry, and drama to probe letters, travel accounts, informational emigration aids, and newspapers.
This booklet provides an outline of the key technological developments in ancient Greek and Roman society, including the provision of food, water, and shelter, building, textiles, and mining and metal
This reference guide is a must-read for all history students that addresses the howsof history papers, and presents technical information to aid in the process of researching, writing, and documenting
Published annually, the Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians lists up-to-date and comprehensive information on historians and programs.
This work presents an overview of technology as intrinsic to the culture of late medieval and Renaissance Europe. It includes discussion of agriculture, textiles such as wool, crafts such as ceramics
Pamela Long considers the ways in which different medieval cultures, from the Byzantine empire to northern Europe, adopted and transformed technologies according to their own needs. Long introduces re
In this essay, Max Edling provides an internationalist interpretation of the founding of the United States. Rather than focusing on domestic economic conflict, Edling's interpretation highlights inter
This booklet provides important information about studying history at colleges and universities across the United States. Through clear graphs and informal prose, readers will find hard data, practica
This essay traces the changing field of the history of the United States in the world, moving through the "cultural turn" and the "transnational turn" of historiography up to the present.
In this fascinating examination of recent scholarship in early American Republic historiography, Woody Holton shifts the focus away from the typical Founding Fathersmodel towards the contributions of
Peter Stearns explores two important dimensions of the pedagogic practice of history. Combining his two popular essays, The History of History and What History Can Beand Why Study History?Stearns cons
Tushnet traces the concept of legal rightsthrough the 20th century--from their origins in classical liberalism, fashioned in legislatures and emphasizing choice and contract, to notions of personal au
This booklet provides a thorough analysis of a set of relationships central to American history in the latter 20th century, which entered popular discourse in a phrase used by Dwight D. Eisenhower in
The studies of women and gender are historiographical fields that have benefited greatly from the cultural turnof the past 20 years. In this essay, Edwards surveys recent scholarship in these burgeoni
This pamphlet demonstrates the range of jobs in which you might enter the historical profession as an ongoing career. You can apply your history degree in a variety of workplaces and under a variety o
Rudi Volti explores the economical, political, cultural, and social events that propelled the technological advances of the airline industry. From more advanced airplanes to better security and safety
For those just entering the historical work force, this revised and updated edition of Gustafson's popular guide provides the necessary practical information about the profession, revealing some of th
Historians of Chinese technology have tended to pay little attention to the Ming dynasty, characterizing it as a stagnantperiod unmarked by significant inventions of the kind that in Europe gave rise
For better or for worse, capitalism is the philosophy that has come to define the United States. In this intriguing essay, Beckert takes a look at the historiography of American capitalism, which has