The Micro-Historian's Guide to Research, Evidence, & Conclusions imparts useful guidance to motivated historians, genealogists, special interest researchers, and local history enthusiasts.
As long-buried sources become available via the internet, more regular folks without a Ph.
in history are joining the fun of information-gathering and shining new light on under-explored history - yet often with no foundation of method.
The author answers the call with this volume, paying forward the guidance received from long-ago mentors as well as from present-day historians and archivists.
Topics include research planning & execution, evaluation of evidence, formulation of conclusions, and the crafting of a summary narrative.
Each topic is enriched by practical examples from the author's experience.
The aim is to help the new practitioner build a foundation of research skills that leads to evidence-based conclusions.
The author's perspective of experience - as a disciplined researcher, but also with roots as a no-nonsense old-school newspaper reporter - occasionally prompts a mild tease of the buttoned-down genealogy proof standard, or conversely, a deflating poke at flabby interpretation .
and moribund academic writing .
wherever it may fester.
The Micro-Historian's Guide to Research, Evidence, & Conclusions draws theory from dozens of history, genealogy, historiography, and research giants through the ages.
The book also pays tribute to that long-ago cigar-chomping newspaper editor who admonished a young reporter: Yer mother sez she loves ya'? You still gotta check it out About the Author Reginald W.
Bacon is a museum and history professional with specialties in early American architecture and domestic life --- and early 20th-century music, vaudeville, and circus.
His first career as a journalist and editor --- an old-school news reporter in the profession that writes the first draft of history ---built the foundation for his current books and research, as well as.
| Reporter | Yer mother sez she loves ya |
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