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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Creative Historical Thinking
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Topic
EducationSubtopic
Teaching HistoryIndex
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...
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
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