How to RESEARCH a HISTORY topic | Basics of the HISTORICAL METHOD

If you want to research a history topic for a paper or video, Dr. Miano offers some tips and strategies about how to do it, including a basic guide to the historical method used by historians, who don't rely on textbooks or surveys to get their information, but on primary sources. Insights from his own experiences should give you a helping hand.

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[markmatzeder]

"Drawing conclusions from unsubstantiated assumptions" is a great way of expressing that. I've been calling it "History Channel history."

[PathsUnwritten]

Always glad to get a notification for a new video here.

[mickdipiano]

What a useful series! Thanks. May the algorithm bless you .

[phil]

I'm just setting out on my undergraduate dissertation - albeit on something far more modern than the channel's core - and just wanted to say thank you very much for this video. It contains fantastic info us wet behind the ear types won't even consider off the bat, and I'll be going back through it all directly with pen and paper at hand!

[FinnA]

6:35 I do wanna add, that a secondary source has the benefit of Hindsight and might be able to give usefull conclusions, drawn from Primary sources.

great video btw

[jj]

I had to watch this video for school, and so glad I did. You've created a new dimension to something I had lost my passion for in the ups and downs of life. Where I loved learning about history, this allowed me to see an exciting, investigative flair to it that I had not ever noticed before. Thank you so much for the video!

[Stephanieseregin]

Thank you for this great information! Is that a Tardis behind you? I love that!

[TheLacedaemonian]

This is great information that I know will be very helpful to many people. Looking forward to the next one.

[clarkharney]

This is great; and it helped me with my Master’s Thesis in History. Thank you for disseminating knowledge. Would love to see a video on your personal library; it reminds me of Thomas Jefferson’s library. I too would love to visit Anatolia and Turkey; the historical significance of events that happened in those places are highly misunderstood today.

[VictoriaMarieMorgan]

Your content is always valuable, thank you for sharing.

[Zenas]

I just subscribed. I rarely see anything on Historiography. A real pleasure. 👍

[VioletMarieWard]

Great video, very well explained and easy to follow.

[brandonrunyan]

My wife recently got to speak to one of her idols- Miss Alice B. Kehoe- via emails & then a zoom call; she's been on cloud 9❤ I'm trying to learn as much as possible about ancient history because, even after 11yr of marriage, I'm still not sure what she's talking about most of the time & that's not fair

[ratheonhudson]

I did a lot of research on the history of elevators and the future space elevator construction plans for a pair of books I wrote on Wattpad. Your breakdown on sources is very very helpful and important. I used Wikipedia and a few other local (offline) sources to corroborate the records

[miketheburns]

oh yeah, this is the good stuff. This should be required viewing for all the alternative history folks so they at least can admit all they have is a THEORY but it is UNLIKELY given the historical evidence. Again, thank you so much for doing this.

[HomericOrigins]

Great job sir, your collab with Mr. Beats brought me here. I think this video should have million of views. I need this teachings. Thank you so much.

[simpublic]

This is wonderfully explained. Thank you for this video.

[KatelynDawnVoiceover]

Appreciate this. Learning about the bible and it's reliability and what parts are myth/legend/historical is helpful. I like useful charts "who wrote the bible" as well for this.Even the new testament has 50 years of a gap from eye witness testimony to the first written documents. Then there is Constantine's meddling... I'd love to have a good long chat with an historian about this topic... would be very interesting.

[juanastellato]

thank you so much for posting this. I am writing my research paper and needed a bit more info on the steps of conducting historical research...had to write out how I will conduct my research.

[mpaulm]

This is very helpful for me. For years I’ve been thinking of writing a book about how Nebuchadnezzar quickly took over the power vacuum of the Fertile Crescent. I also always wondered if he actually accepted the Jewish God as his own God. His praise of God in Daniel’s book is one of the best in the whole Bible.