Article: Making history; Josephus and historical method.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: On getting answers correctly: reflections on two new books on ...
Historical Methods;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. Historical method, the business not of getting correct ... do write. Formal instruction in historical method was usually folded into courses on ... rudimentary understanding of statistics. Historical method is no longer for the faint of heart ...

Article: Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the ...
Theological Studies;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...HISTORICAL METHOD AND CONFESSIONAL IDENTITY IN THE ERA OF THE REFORMATION (1378 ... out over sectarian ones, pointing the way to a truly authentic historical method as later defined by Jean Mabillon and practiced by other Maurists ...

Article: An historical method for MIS research: steps and ...
MIS Quarterly;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Why Use an Historical Method? A study of history offers a valuable perspective with which ... xv). What is the nature of knowledge produced by using an historical method? In the final analysis, the principle product of historical ...

Article: A teaching note: getting started in a course on historical ...
Teaching History: A Journal of Methods;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... shape all my teaching, from the freshman level to the graduate level, and they dominate one course, "Introduction to Historical Method." This "teaching note" describes the exercises that I use at the start of the course, looking at "What Is a Fact ...

Article: Historical method.(Letter to the editor)
History Today;  September 1, 2008 ;     384 words ...Monsignor Bruce Kent (Letters, August 2008) is right to identify Nicholson Baker's book Human Smoke as a pacifist tract, which it undoubtedly is, but quite wrong to criticize William Rubinstein's superb review (July 2008) for excoriating it. The book deliberately wrenches quotations out of context

Memorials and monuments: historical method and the ...
Studies in Short Fiction;  September 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...All schemes of morality are nothing more than efforts to put into permanent codes the expedients found useful by some given race. --H. L. Mencken, The Philosophy of Nietzsche (ix) 1 Poor Fitzgerald--forever ensconced in the halls of academe as a writer's version of Oz's Scarecrow: "If he only had a

Article: Stylistic description as historical method: French ...
Style;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ...In this article, I undertake a study of the cinema of occupied France with the aim of demonstrating the necessity of the descriptive analysis of film style in film historiography. My basic claim is that descriptive analysis is necessary because it provides the only means of disclosing the