
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Creative Historical Thinking
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- SECTION I The Argument: Seeing History as a Creative Discipline
- SECTION II Practical Strategies for Students to Become Creative Historians
- SECTION III Creativity in the History Classroom
- SECTION IV The Consequences of Creative History
- Appendix A: Common Questions College Students Ask About History
- Appendix B: The Creative Historian’s “Histocratic” Oath
- Index