Towards a Better Understanding

by Bernard Norling

Book Overview

"History," writes Bernard Norling, "is not a series of unconnected episodes, all about equally important or equally useless, each embellished with a chapter title, and all then assembled in a book. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268093504
• ISBN13: 9780268093501
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

Customer Reviews

Great source for AP History class!

As a high school history teacher, I found this book a fascinating and practical explanation of how to read and study history. Norling begins his book with convincing arguments for why history should be studied at all. He continues by outlining the many different "theories" of history (Great Men, Great Ideas, etc.)and comes to the accurate conclusion first stated by Carl Gustavson, that the only law of history is the law of multiple causation. Throughout his book are many interesting examples from the pages of history to illustrate the points he makes. He concludes with a practical chapter on how to write a term paper for history class. I would love to use this book to teach an AP course.