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The Historian's Craft Joseph R. Strayer, Marc Bloch, Peter Putnam
Publisher: Vintage

As I sat reading Christopher Columbus' personal journals I thought, "This doesn't sound like the person described by text books at all." The class was a Latin American Colonial Seminar. The Historian's Craft: Primary Sources. Historians devote considerable time to parsing the tensions among words, intentions, and behaviours. History had to be done only using computers. In his essay The Historian and the Computer (1973) he wrote that “history that is not quantifiable cannot claim to be scientific”. "Has the Historian's craft gone digital?" - Parution de notre article dans Diacronie n°10 - Digital History. I worked with a colleague on an museum exhibit for the Winter Park History Association. Here is my review of Marc Bloch's classic text for "doing history." I will add more context about this historian a little later. The Historian's Craft: Revision. Funny title I know, but it is the truth. The Historians' Craft: A Call for Understanding. I hope this isn't a topic that has been discussed here before. Lies loom large over the historian's craft. I have been thinking lately about what it means to practice academic history. I have more faith in the historians' craft. For me history is the story of people and how they or members of a larger society changed over time. This entry was posted in .USIH Blog, authorship, historiography, Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal, social history, the historian's craft, writing history by L.D.