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Like its predecessors, the third edition of one of our mostpopular texts, The Methods and Skills of History: A PracticalGuide, is a dynamic text/workbook that combines theory with "handson" practice, providing engaging essays, documents, and exercisesdesigned to make history more meaningful and accessible to studentreaders whether they are majoring in history, taking ahistory course as an elective, or simply reading history on theirown as well as strengthen their critical–thinking andcommunication skills.
While this third edition retains the essence of its highlysuccessful predecessor in the form of its practical, timely adviceon research and writing and field–tested exercises,it features important modifications as well, including areorganization of the chapters to progress even more smoothly froma theoretical discussion of the nature of history (Part I), topractical considerations involved in confronting historicalaccounts (Part II) to actually doing history (PartIII). The final section (Part IV) provides a brief overview of howhistory as a discipline evolved and how it relates to otheracademic disciplines, as well as appendices that compriseinteresting historical documents and helpful source references andbibliographies.
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Michael J. Salevouris ia a Professor of History atWebster University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. degree fromthe University of Minnesota and currently teaches courses inhistory methods, British and European history, the history ofwarfare, and the history of disease and medicine. In addition tovarious reviews and articles he is the author of RiflemenForm : The War Scare of 1859–1860 in England, and (withConal Furay) Learning American History: Critical Skills for theSurvey Course. His interests include golf, tennis, mysterynovels, model building, and traveling far and wide when theopportunity presents itself.
A native of Omaha, Nebraska. Conal Furay received hisdoctoral degree from St. Louis University. Before becoming aProfessor Emeritus at Webster University he taught such courses asAmerican Business History and the Western in film and story.Previous publications include The Grass–Roots Mind inAmerica, and (with Michael Salevouris) Learning AmericanHistory: Critical Skills for the Survey Course. Currentinterests are Nebraska Cornhusker football, golfing with friends,and a late–blooming enjoyment of reading National Geographicmagazine from cover to cover.
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