History/ES 247 Reading Guide
Introduction: Thinking Historically
Thinking Historically, and Thinking about the Historical Past
- "What’s past is prologue." William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c.1610-11)
- "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
- "A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing." Kenneth Burke, Permanence and Change (1935)
- "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)
Short reading
- Robert Blackey, et al., Teaching Innovations Forum: “Thinking Historically in the Classroom,” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 33.7 (October 1995) , 1, 4, 23-37. Notes