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
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:
Google Scholar:
Library of Congress Newspaper Collection:
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