Resources for Writing History

Reading, Writing, and Researching for History {Bowdoin College}

Dr. Diana Velez's Research Workshop Page {UCF Department of History}

Visiting Our Past: Methods in American History {UCF Department of History}

Web Resources for Web Publishing

How to Read a Primary Source

Why Study History Through Primary Sources

The Need for Source Criticism: A Letter from Alexander to Aristotle? (From The History Sourcebook)

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, from Modern History Sourcebook]

David E. Kyvig & Myron A. Marty, Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You, Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2000. (pp. 18-39) - Kyving and Marty provide a list of questions (not all relevant to your specific research) that anyone writing history should ask before he/she embarks on their research, and should keep in mind at every stage of the process..

 

Resources for Oral History

Oral History Association

Oral History Guidelines {Oral History Association}

Oral History Program at the University of Florida

Oral History Internet Resources

Tips for Oral History Interviews

Sample Individual Oral History Agreement {UCLA Oral History Program}

Bibliography and Guide to Oral History Resources {UCLA Oral History Program}

Smithsonian Oral History Collection

Smithsonian Video History Collection

 

Methods and Theories in History

Clifford Geertz, Ideology as a Cultural System {Modern History Sourcebook}

Clifford Geertz, Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture {Modern History Sourcebook}

University of Chicago, Social Science Research - Best place to find summaries of the most important theories practiced in the social sciences. Divided into workable categories (political, cultural, etc). The place to go to research social theory.

Overview of Herbert Spencer and Sociological Theory

Marxist Internet Archive As far as I know this is the best collection of Marxist writers available electronically 

John Hamlin's Social Theory Glossary

John Hamlin's Outline of Main Paradigms in Social Theory

St. Thomas Aquinas On-line Texts- Thomistic Philosophy, the official philosophy of the Roman Catholic Church.  Based on Aristotelian philosophy, Thomism (and its variants) is one of the worlds oldest and most influential schools of thought

Scholastic Philosophy - Analysis of Thomistic Philosophy and its applications in the social sciences and theology

Jaques Maritain Center - Best collection of the man accredited for bringing Scholastic Philosophy into modern times, placing it a la par with the best social theories of our time.

Jaques Maritain, On the Philosophy of History

Jaques Maritain - Reflections on America - Maritain's classic analysis of US society, race relations, culture and spirit

Liberation Theology -

Liberation Theology and Liberal Religion Links

Radical Catholicism - Theory and Organizations

Halsall's Lesbian and Gay Theory Resource Page