History (Yale-NUS College): Welcome

This oral history guidebook is used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists. It offers practical advice for oral history projects including advice for interviews, making video recordings, and preserving oral history collections. This guidebook is mindful of the latest digital audio and video recording technology and includes these developments in its guidance.

This book is part of Oxford's "Very Short Introduction" series which aim to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. In this introduction, the historian John Arnold presents concepts like causation, interpretation, and periodization as means of doing history. Each "Very Short Introduction" is written by respected scholars in the field and emphasize concise and elegant writing.

This handbook for historical research is an excellent guide for researching and writing papers. History students and potential history majors will learn about the process of 'doing history' from locating sources and gathering information to writing and presenting your work.

A Concise Companion to History addresses key themes and structures both new and established in the discipline of History. Respected historians have contributed to this title, making it a useful introduction for budding historians on both the heritage and the new trends of their discipline.

This book starts by introducing the key elements of history: evidence, narrative, and judgement. This book guides readers through the evolution of the concept of history over time. The second part of the book focuses on the 'historian's toolbox': essential skills including documents, sources, footnotes, bibliographies, and chronologies. This book explains issues of interpretation, speculation, professional ethics, and controversial issues such as plagiarism, historical hoaxes, and conspiracy theories.

An ideal complement for any history course,A Short Guide to Writing about Historyhelps students learn how to think and write like an historian. This engaging and practical text helps students get beyond merely compiling dates and facts; it teaches them how to incorporate their own ideas into their papers and to tell a story about history that interests them and their peers. Covering brief essays and the documented resource paper, the text explores the writing and researching processes, different modes of historical writing (including argument), and offers guidelines for improving style as well as documenting sources.