HIST3990 - History Junior Seminar

Dr. Brian Regal

Professor for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Department of History, LHAC 212

email: bregal@kean.edu

This course is required (and a pre-requisite for HIST4990) for all new students entering Fall of 2015.

It is, however, open to all history majors and minors regardless of matriculation date and is highly recommended. A petition is required before registering, this can be obtained through the department secretary or Chair.

Course Description:

Introduction to historical methodology and historiography.  Investigates the basic mechanics of historical writing including citations, bibliography, argument construction, specifically related to the practice of history. Develop critical reading, thinking, information literacy, research, advanced writing, and presentation skills. Prerequisite for HIST4990.

Syllabus: 3990 Fall 2022

Power Point Presentation: updated 9/3/2022

On Writing

Required Textbook:

Booth, Colomb, and Williams. A Manual for Writers 7th ed. (University of Chicago,

2007). ISBN 13:978-0-226-82337-9.

Suggested Texts: (suggested but not required)

Alun Munslow, The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies 2nd Ed (Routledge, 2005): ISBN: 0415385776

Anthony Brundage, Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing (Wiley-Blackwell,2013): ISBN:978-1-118-51531-0

Latest edition, Chicago Manual of Style

On-Line Resources:

How to write a 'Review of Literature'

https://phdinahundredsteps.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/writing-a-literature-review-in-your-own-voice/

Library of Congress Digital Newspaper Collection 1836-1922

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

The Public Domain Review - a great resource for hard-to-find original rare books

Examples of Digital History Sources:

Darwin Letters:

http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/

Welcome Library:

https://wellcomelibrary.org/

Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/

Library of Congress Newspaper Collection:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&date1=1789&date2=1924&proxtext=madoc&dateFilterType=yearRange&rows=20&searchType=basic&x=0&y=0

History Writing Guidelines

Paper grading rubric

Model of paper layout/outline

How to cite a 'Tweet'

Primary source analysis project: A Most Strange but True Account of a Very Large Sea-Monster (1704)

• • Writing a thesis statement

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/01/

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/writing/resources/How%20do%20i%20write%20a%20thesis%20statement.pdf

• • How to analyse a text?

http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl0310/analysis1.htm

http://www.panix.com/~squigle/dcp/analysis.html

• • Textural analysis

http://www.bethtovey.com/language/text_analysis.html