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Topics in the resource inventory

• Who Are Historians? Producers of History from Ancient Times to the Present
• Identity and Context: Values, Beliefs, Gender, Class, Status and Constraints
• What Is History For? Changing Aims, Purposes and Roles of History
• The Use and Misuse of History: Legitimacy, Myth, Propaganda and Denial
• How Historians Work: Methods, Evidence, Truth and Objectivity
• Forms of Communication and Types of History: from Epic to Digital, Micro to Macro
• Why Approaches Change I: Evidence, Contexts, Perspectives and Philosophies of History
• Why Approaches Change II: Changing Technology and Changing Audiences
• Ancient and Medieval Producers: Herodotus to Ibn Khaldun
• From Voltaire and Gibbon to Ranke and Marx: Enlightenment, Whig and 'Scientific' History
• Annales, History from Below, Carr and Elton, and the Postmodern Challenge
• Feminist, Postcolonial, Public and Digital History; Australia's History Wars
• Ancient Case Studies: Cleopatra VII, Athenian Democracy, Rome and the Provinces, Early Christianity, the Collapse of the West
• Medieval and Early Modern Case Studies: the Crusades, Witch Hunts, Elizabeth I, Spain and the Aztec Empire
• Modern Case Studies: Napoleon, Western Imperialism, Churchill or Thatcher, Appeasement, Kennedy
• Asia Case Studies: Genghis Khan, the Opium Wars and the Partition of India
• Australia Case Studies: the Frontier, Women Convicts, Menzies or Whitlam, Representations of Anzac
• Section I (Key Questions): Integrating Unseen Passages and Your Own Sources
• Section II (Case Study): Answering the Historiographical Issue Across Your Areas of Debate
• The History Project: Proposal, Process Log, Annotated Sources, 2500-Word Essay