097 How to Organize Your Research (Doing History)

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 August 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What do historians do with all of the information they collect when they research? How do they access their research in a way that allows them to find the information they need to write the books and articles we enjoy reading? Billy Smith, a Professor of History at Montana State University, joins us as part of our “Doing History: How Historians Work” series to lead us on an exploration of how historians organize and access their research. About the Series “Doing History” episodes will introduce you to historians who will tell you what they know about the past and reveal how they came to their knowledge. Each episode will air on the last Tuesday of each month in 2016. This series is part of a partnership between Ben Franklin’s World and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/097 Helpful Show Links How to Organize Your Research Companion Resource Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Ben Franklin's World Facebook Page Join the Ben Franklin's World Community Sign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for Ben Franklin's world comes from the
0:02.4	Omaha Institute of Early American History and Culture.
0:05.2	In July 2015, the Omaha Institute inaugurated a new program,
0:10.4	the Scholars Workshop. Each summer the OI invites six on ten years The
0:13.4	OI invites six on tenured or unaffiliated scholars to Williamsburg to
0:17.8	to work with its experienced editorial team on improving a book
0:20.8	chapter or journal article.
0:22.6	The goal of the workshop is to help scholars write better,
0:25.3	more engaging history books and articles.
0:28.0	Whitney Martinko, who's an assistant professor of history
0:30.8	at Villanova University,
0:32.5	participated in the first Scholars Workshop.
0:34.8	I asked her about her experiences,
0:36.8	and she revealed this.
0:38.1	It's not an exaggeration to say that the Scholars Workshop
0:41.2	at the Amahandro Institute
0:42.8	has been the most intellectually productive two weeks
0:45.6	of my career so far.
0:46.9	I submitted a chapter, the first chapter of my dissertation
0:50.4	that I was looking to turn into a book chapter and when I got to the on the
0:54.7	hundred institute I realized that I had fallen into a trap that I think is pretty
0:58.9	common for young scholars which is that the first chapter comes to set out a sort of a broad overview of the book
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