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Dangerous Games: the uses & abuses of history by Call Number: UCF Main General Collection -- D16.8.M251 2009ch4ck availability of 1st edition
"Explores the ways in which history has been used to influence people and government, focusing on how reportage of past events has been manipulated to justify religious movements and political campaigns."
Being a Historian: an introduction to the professional world of history by Call Number: UCF Main General Collection -- D16.8.B3134 2012ch4ck availability of print edition
Based on the author's more than 50 years of experience as a professional historian in academic and other capacities, Being a Historian is addressed to both aspiring and mature historians. It offers an overview of the state of the discipline of history today and the problems that confront it and its practitioners in many professions. James M. Banner, Jr argues that historians remain inadequately prepared for their rapidly changing professional world and that the discipline as a whole has yet to confront many of its deficiencies. He also argues that, no longer needing to conform automatically to the academic ideal, historians can now more safely and productively than ever before adapt to their own visions, temperaments and goals as they take up their responsibilities as scholars, teachers and public practitioners. Critical while also optimistic, this work suggests many topics for further scholarly and professional exploration, research and debate.
A Pocket Guide to Writing in History by ch4ck availability of previous editions
A Pocket Guide to Writing in History is the concise, trusted, and easy-to-use guide for the writing and research skills needed in undergraduate history courses. Thoroughly updated to include strategies for making useful outlines and organizing a paper, the tenth edition ensures that students have the most up-to-date advice and ample instruction for writing a research paper for their history class.
History: Why It Matters by Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection -- D13 .H854 2018ch4ck availability
We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical facts and meddle with the content of history books, while media differ wildly in their reporting of the same event. Frequently, new discoveries force us to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the past. So how can any certainty about history be established, and why does it matter? Lynn Hunt shows why the search for truth about the past, as a continual process of discovery, is vital for our societies. History has an essential role to play in ensuring honest presentation of evidence. In this way, it can foster humility about our present-day concerns, a critical attitude toward chauvinism, and an openness to other peoples and cultures. History, Hunt argues, is our best defense against tyranny.
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Library of Congress subject headings:
Class D - World History
| Call Number | Subject |
|---|---|
| D 1 - 203 | History (General). Ancient History. Medieval History |
| D 204 - 297 | Modern History, 1453-1789 |
| D 299 - 475 | Modern History, 1789- |
| D 501 - 728 | World War I (1914-1918). Period between World Wars (1919-1939) |
| D 731 - 838 | World War II (1939-1945) |
| D 839 - 893 | Post-war history (1945-) |
| D 900 - 2027 | Europe (General) |