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• Cover Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction: History Is for Everyone
• Part I: Definitions
• Chapter 1. Defining History
• History Is the Study of People and the Choices They Made
• History Is a Means to Understand Today’s World
• History Combines Storytelling and Analysis
• History Is an Ongoing Debate
• Chapter 2. Historians’ Ethics
• Curiosity
• Accuracy
• Judgment
• Empathy
• Gratitude
• Truth
• Part II: Questions
• Chapter 3. Asking Questions
• Wonder
• Autobiography
• Everything Has a History
• Narrative Expansion
• From the Source
• Public History
• Research Agenda
• Questions
• Factual Questions
• Interpretive Questions
• Dialectics
• Opposing Forces
• Internal Contradictions
• Competing Priorities
• Determining Factors
• Hidden or Contested Meanings
• Before and After
• Dialectics Create Questions, Not Answers
• Chapter 4. Research Design
• Scope
• Copy Other Works
• History Big and Small
• Pick Your People
• Add and Subtract
• Narrative versus Thematic Schemes
• Periodization
• Beginnings
• Endings
• Pace
• The Balky Time Machine
• Geography
• National
• Local and Regional
• Transnational and Global
• Comparative
• Historiography
• What Is New about Your Approach?
• Are You Working in a Specific Theoretical Tradition?
• What Have Others Written?
• Are Others Working on It?
• What Might Your Critics Say?
• Proposal
• Part III: Sources
• Chapter 5. Sources: An Introduction
• Primary versus Secondary Sources
• Balancing Your Use of Secondary Sources
• Sets of Sources
• Sources as Records of the Powerful
• No Source Speaks for Itself
• Languages and Specialized Reading
• Choose Sources That You Love
• Chapter 6. Texts as Sources
• First-Person Accounts
• Diaries
• Letters
• Memoirs
• Interviews
• Workaday Documents
• Periodicals
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Specialized Periodicals
• Government Documents
• Criminal Investigations and Trials
• Censuses
• Official Reports
• Letters and Petitions
• Institutional Records
• Scholarship
• Fiction
• Words
• Big Data
• Chapter 7. Sources beyond Traditional Texts
• Numbers
• Maps
• Images
• Portraits
• Motion Pictures and Recordings
• Artifacts
• Buildings and Plans
• Places
• Chapter 8. Finding Sources
• The Working Bibliography
• The Open Web
• Limits of the Open Web
• Bibliographic Databases
• Full-Text Databases
• Libraries
• Oral History
• Chapter 9. Archival Research
• What Is an Archive?
• Archives and Access
• Working in Archives
• Read the Finding Aid
• Follow the Rules
• Work with Archivists
• Research with Digital Photography
• Types of Cameras
• How Much to Shoot?
• Managing Expectations
• Chapter 10. Interpreting Sources
• Pattern Recognition
• Worldview
• Duck, Duck, Goose
• Critical Reading
• Agenda
• Credibility
• Nuance
• Context
• Change
• Causation
• Part IV: Projects
• Chapter 11. Project Management
• Goals of Project Management
• Avoid Catastrophe
• Complete Tasks—Ideally Just Once, and in the Right Order
• Maintain Momentum
• Tools of the Trade
• Hardware
• Kinds of Software
• Word Processors
• Means of Entry
• Productivity
• A Good Day’s Work
• Word Count Is Your Friend
• Managing Research Assistants
• Research Diary
• When to Stop
• Chapter 12. Taking Notes
• Goals
• Note-Taking as Mining
• Note-Taking as Assembly
• The Good-Enough Note
• Identify the Source, So You Can Go Back and Consult if Needed
• Distinguish Others’ Words and Ideas from Your Own
• Allow Sorting and Retrieval of Related Pieces of Information
• Provide the Right Level of Detail
• Simple Tools for Notes
• Notebooks and Index Cards
• Word Processors for Note-Taking
• Plain Text and Markdown
• Database Software
• Reference Managers
• Note-Taking Apps
• Relational Databases
• Spreadsheets
• Specialized Tools
• Timelines
• Glossaries and Alphabetical Lists
• Image Catalogs
• Mapping
• Other Specialized Formats
• The Working Draft
• Chapter 13. Organization
• Scale
• The Foundational Five-Paragraph Essay
• Variants: The Ten- and Thirty-Page Papers
• Introductions
• Ledes
• Thesis Statement
• Historiography
• Body
• Sections
• Background
• Sections as Independent Essays
• Topic Sentences
• Conclusions
• Answering Questions
• Invisible Bullet Points
• The Perils of Policy Prescriptions
• Outlines
• A Model (T) Outline
• Flexibility
• Part V: Stories
• Chapter 14. Storytelling
• Characters
• Protagonists
• Antagonists
• Witnesses
• Bit Players
• Chorus
• Plots
• The Shape of the Story
• The Controlling Idea
• Events
• Alchemy: Turning Sources to Stories
• Chronology
• Turning Points
• Agones
• Resolution
• Counterfactuals
• Like a (Realist) Novel
• Scene
• Dialogue
• Point of View
• Symbolic Details
• Combinations
• Speculation
• Chapter 15. Style
• Words
• Is Your Jargon Really Necessary?
• Defining Terms
• Word Choice as Analysis
• Period Vocabulary or Anachronism?
• Quotation
• Nontextual Information
• Integrate Images into Your Story
• Put Numbers in Context
• Summarize Data in Tables and Graphs
• Citation
• Why We Cite
• Citation Styles
• Rhetorical Devices
• Active Verbs
• People as Subjects
• Metaphors
• Signposting
• Questions
• First Person
• Titles
• Revision
• Putting It Aside
• Reverse Outlining
• Auditing Your Word Budget
• Writing for the Ear
• Cuts
• Chapter 16. Publication
• Playing with Others
• Conferences
• Social Media
• Coauthorship
• Peer Review
• Tough, Fair, and Encouraging
• Manuscript and Book Reviews
• Print
• Journal Articles
• Book Chapters
• Books
• Public Engagement
• Websites and Social Media
• Museums and Historic Sites
• Press Appearances and Op-Eds
• Law and Policy
• Graphic History, Movies, and Broadway Musicals
• Letting Go
• Acknowledgments
• Index