Critical Thinking & Writing in History - A User's Guide

Critical Thinking & Writing in History is a guide through the historical method. This work explores the very definition of history and offers explanatory text in locating sources, source analysis, argumentation and reasoning, looking for subtext, causation, contextualization, generalization, historical empathy, and writing history. Critical Thinking & Writing in History is ideal for college freshmen seeking to improve their historical thinking. 

Readers will learn the answers to such questions as: 

   What is the nature of history? 

   What sources do historians use and where do they find them? 

   How do historians analyze sources? 

   How do historians interpret subtext? 

   How do historians structure arguments? 

   What are common mistakes in reasoning? 

   What is causation and how do his