Readings

Week 1

O'Donnell, James J. "Shrine of Nonlinear Reading." In Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Schlabach, Gerald W. A Sense of History.
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/gwschlabach/sense.htm
Levy, David. "Libraries and the Anxiety of Order." In Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001.
Barzun, Jacques and Henry F. Graff. "Finding the Facts." In The Modern Researcher. Belmont: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004.
Hoffer, Peter Charles and William W. Stueck. "Secondary sources in the Library." In Reading and Writing American History: An Introduction to the Historian's Craft. Boston: Pearson, 2003.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. "Dancing with Professors." New York Times 31 Oct. 1993, page A1.
McDowell, W.H. "Historical Sources." In Historical Research: A Guide. London: Longman, 2002.
Marwick, Arthur. "Primary Sources: Handle with Care." In Sources and Methods for Family and Community Historians: A Handbook edited by Michael Drake and Ruth Finnegan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Week 2

Goldstein, Barry M. "All Photos Lie: Images as Data." In Visual Research Methods: Image, Society and Representation edited by Gregory C. Stanczak. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2007.
Alinder, Jasmine. "Displaced Smiles: Photography and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II." Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 30 (2005): 519-537.
Pope, Daniel. Making Sense of Advertisements.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/ads/ads.pdf
McLaughlin, Robert L. and Sally E. Parry. "Introduction." In We'll Always have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2006.
Nachbar, Jack. "Doing the Thinking for All of Us: Casablanca and the Home Front." Journal of Popular Film & Television 27, no.4 (2000): 5-16.
Gunning, Tom. Making Sense of Film.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/film/film.pdf
Woodward, Kenneth. "In Praise of Footnotes." Newsweek 128 no. 11 (1996): 75.
Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "Where Have All the Footnotes Gone?" In On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1994.

Week 3

Litoff, Judy Barrett and David C. Smith. "U.S. Women on the Home Front in World War II." The Historian 57, no. 2 (1995): 349-360.
Stowe, Stephen. Making Sense of Letters and Diaries.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/letters/
Bloom, Lynn Z. "'I Write for Myself and Strangers': Private Diaries as Public Documents." In Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries edited by Suzanne L. Bunkers and Cynthia A. Huff. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Grele, Ronald J., "On Using Oral History Collections." The Journal of American History 74, no. 2 (1987): 570-578.
Horowitz, Roger. "Oral History and the Story of America and World War II." Journal of American History 82, no. 2 (1995): 617-624.
White, Richard. "Introduction." In Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

Week 4

Birdwell, Michael. "Technical Fairy First Class? Is This Any Way to Run an Army? Private Snafu and World War II." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 25, no. 2 (2005): 203-212.
"Introduction." In Archival Information: How to find It, How to Use It edited by Steven Fisher. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004.
Lacher-Feldman, Jessica. "Evaluating Online Resources: Tools, Tips and Terms." In The History Highway: A 21st Century Guide to Internet Resources edited by Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott A. Merriman. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.