Creative Historical Thinking

Michael Douma

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781351623247
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Éducation
• Subtopic: Enseignement de l'Histoire

Creative Historical Thinking offers innovative approaches to thinking and writing about history. Author Michael J. Douma makes the case that history should be recognized as a subject intimately related to individual experience and positions its practice as an inherently creative endeavor. Douma describes the nature of creativity in historical thought, illustrates his points with case studies and examples. He asserts history's position as a collective and community-building exercise and argues for the importance of metaphor and other creative tools in communicating about history with people who may view the past in fundamentally different ways. A practical guide and an inspiring affirmation of the personal and communal value of history, Creative Historical Thinking has much to offer to both current and aspiring historians.

Index

Amato, Joseph A. 45

American Historical Review 51, 142

anecdotes 44, 99, 16, 127, 143

Annales school of history 137–138

archaeology 81, 84–85, 131–132, 140, 146

Arendt, Hannah 107

Armitage, David 116

artifacts 1, 41, 75, 82, 85, 95, 131

Asimov, Isaac 52, 136

Augustine, of Hippo 115–116

autobiography x, 19, 21, 43, 96, 118

Begriffsgeschichte 25

Bible 126, 155

biography 3, 27, 96, 139, 148, 154

bisociation 4–6, 151

Bloch, Marc 25

Boden, Margaret 144n3

Braudel, Fernand 43

Bruner, Jerome 148

Burckhardt, Jacob 25

Butterfield, Herbert 117

calendars 12–14, 22n2, 22n5

Calvinism 4

Candyland 20, 34

Cap’n Crunch 153–154

Carlin, Dan 141

Carr, E.H. 39

change, historical 3, 45, 60–61, 99–104, 109, 113, 115–117, 121–122, 125, 138, 141

chaos theory 26

Christian, David 44–45

chronesthesia 36n11

chronic fallacy 30

chronicling 31, 73, 132, 139, 148, 156

chronology 30, 32, 39, 96, 126

Civil War, American 21, 28, 40, 42–44, 98, 106, 111, 150, 155

Clark, Gordon 138–139

Clark, Kenneth 127

Colavito, Jason 65

Cold War 58

Collingwood, R.G. xi, 39

common sense 24–25, 36n3, 41

Comte, August 117

Condorcet 119

conspiracy theory 37n16, 65, 123–124, 128

Conway, Kellyanne 41–42

Costello, Paul 119–120

“cranks” 63–66

creativity x, 1–2, 4–6, 7n11, 38, 40, 51–53, 56, 59, 73, 78, 87...