Instructor(s)
Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood
MIT Course Number
21H.931
As Taught In
Spring 2002
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Description
This course is designed to introduce students to fundamental issues and debates in the writing of history. It will feature innovative historical accounts written in recent years. The class will consider such questions as the words historians use, their language, sources, methods, organization, framing, and style. How does the choice of each of these affect the historian's work? How does the author choose, analyze, and present evidence? How effective are different methodologies?