The Princeton Guide to Historical Res..., Zachary M. Schrag
The Princeton Guide to Historical Res..., Zachary M. Schrag
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The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

Author: Zachary M. Schrag

Narrator: Peter Lerman

Unabridged: 14 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/27/2021


Synopsis

The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first century

The Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.

Zachary Schrag begins by explaining how to ask good questions and then guides listeners step-by-step through all phases of historical research, from narrowing a topic and locating sources to taking notes, crafting a narrative, and connecting one's work to existing scholarship. He shows how researchers extract knowledge from the widest range of sources, such as government documents, newspapers, unpublished manuscripts, images, interviews, and datasets. He demonstrates how to use archives and libraries, read sources critically, present claims supported by evidence, tell compelling stories, and much more.


About Zachary M. Schrag

Zachary M. Schrag is professor of history at George Mason University and the author of Ethical Imperialism and The Great Society Subway. His teaching website is historyprofessor.org. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amin on March 10, 2023

The book takes a lot of space to discuss trivial matters, while not going into detail about more essential things an aspiring historian would want to learn. Its method of showering the reader with multiple short examples often serves no purpose other than frustrating the reader after a few chapters.......more

Goodreads review by KatzeKet on November 28, 2021

The Princeton Guide to Historical Research is exactly what it says it is. In this book, it details historical methodology and parts of historical research such as defining history, to scoping out research design, to less noticeable stuff like writing style and narrative. It is a very useful book to......more

Goodreads review by Alper on February 14, 2025

The book is quite didactic and gives plenty of examples, mostly from US historiography. But most of the examples are just one or two sentences, they don't make a significant contribution and it makes the book unnecessarily long. It bored me a bit, I left it towards the end. Maybe history and humanit......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on September 29, 2021

I think this book would be useful for undergrads and some early grad students. A lot of the length is because there are lots of examples, but you can definitely get through it very quickly if you're just focusing on the content. The best section is on writing style, with a focus on how to always be......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on June 30, 2024

A great book filled with ample examples that prove its points. However, there are some parts that feel a tad self-explanatory or are very introductory for doing historical research, so the 10+ year professional won't get a lot out of this book.......more