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Selected Sources: Studying History

Contents

Using Primary Sources
Medieval Documents
Accessing Medieval Documents
The Uses of History

Using Primary Sources

Why Study History Through Primary Sources.
How to Read A Primary Source. [At Bowdoin College]
Using Primary Sources. [At Then Again]
Thucydides: On Inventing Speeches, from History of the Peloponnesian War [At this Site]
The Need for Source Criticism: A Letter from Alexander to Aristotle?
Natalie Zemon Davis: "Any Resemblance to Persons Living or Dead": Film and the Challenge of Authenticity, The Yale Review, 86 (1986-87): 457-82. [At Stanford]

Medieval Documents

WEB Byzantine Paleography, with sample texts and images.
WEB Medieval Paleography, with sample texts, ed. David Postles [Website]
WEB Early Modern Paleography, with sample texts, ed. David Postles [Website]

Accessing Medieval Documents

The Great Document Collections
- Migne
- MGH
- RHC
- Muratori
- The Rolls Series
Archives
The English National Archives
- TNA Website

The Uses of History

Gerald W. Schlabach: A Sense of History: Some Components [At St. Thomas] [His Ten Commandments of Historical Writing are also worth a look.]
Lord Acton: Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, 1906 [At this Site]
Acton defends a moral interpretation of people's actions in the past.
Roland Barthes: The Discourse of History, Comparative Criticism 3 (1981): 7-20 [at UFL]
The Nature of History: A Debate between Marc Trachtenberg and James M. Banner, Jr., 1998
For more texts on the nature of history see the Studying History section of the Modern History Sourcebook

NOTES: copyrighted means the text is not available for free distribution. In some cases alternate versions are available, and are working through the pipeline. Dates of accession of material can be seen in the New Accessions Page. The date of inception was 1/20/1996. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. No indication means that the text file is local. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.

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