* Mandatory: GALGANO, M. J. - ARNDT, J. C. - HYSER, R. M., Doing History. Research and Writing in the Digital Age, Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008. ECO, U., How to Write a Thesis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015. * Recommended: BLOCH, M. The Historianʼs Craft, New York: Knopf, 1953. DONNELLY, M. - NORTON, C., Doing History, London - New York: Routledge, 2011.
Examples of Useful History Sources and History Records Search Engines: https://earlymodernweb.org/resources/index.html early printed books online
EMLO – Early Modern Letters Online: http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
History Sourcebooks: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/modsbook.asp#Introduction https://en.esbirky.cz/
Weekly schedule:
1) The Past is a Foreign Country
2) Choosing a topic
3) Research methods
4) Primary sources: Written Records
5) Primary sources: Visual Material
6) Secondary sources
7) Journal databases
8) Preparing bibliography
9) Citational practices
10) Avoiding plagiarism
11) Thesis structure and work plan
12) Writing process
13) Formatting the thesis