{"id":2007,"date":"2015-12-03T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2015-12-03T18:08:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T18:08:27","slug":"historiography-dos-and-donts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/2015\/12\/03\/historiography-dos-and-donts\/","title":{"rendered":"Historiography Do&#8217;s and Don&#8217;ts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most important thing about studying the study of history is to understand that doing so can sometimes lead to a series of difficult choices, especially for an undergraduate history major. \u00a0Here are some suggestions for senior history majors:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Do&#8217;s \/ Don&#8217;ts<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Try to build on previous work \/ Don&#8217;t assume you have to tear down previous work to succeed<\/li>\n<li>Adopt a constructive but skeptical &amp; questioning tone \/ Don&#8217;t let\u00a0anything\u00a0represent the final word<\/li>\n<li>Take special care to find the very best recent\u00a0sources \/ Don&#8217;t\u00a0waste time on unworthy\u00a0sources<\/li>\n<li>Put\u00a0your historiography\u00a0in chronological order \/ Don&#8217;t ever ignore the idea of\u00a0change over time<\/li>\n<li>Tackle big historiography questions in your papers \/ Don&#8217;t try to debate interpretations\u00a0in notes<\/li>\n<li>Be fair when characterizing other peoples&#8217; views \/ Don&#8217;t be afraid to condense and summarize<\/li>\n<li>Point out revealing\u00a0discrepancies in notes \/ Don&#8217;t litter notes with every discrepancy or mistake<\/li>\n<li>Be creative about making connections \/ Don&#8217;t overwhelm your narratives with historiography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bottom line is that undergraduate history majors should always try to see themselves as members of a historical community, ready and capable of making contributions to their respective fields,\u00a0but only\u00a0if they\u00a0work hard enough to deserve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most important thing about studying the study of history is to understand that doing so can sometimes lead to a series of difficult choices, especially for an undergraduate history major. \u00a0Here are some suggestions for senior history majors: &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/2015\/12\/03\/historiography-dos-and-donts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}