Works marked with (*) are found in a compendium sold at Kopiutsalget in the book store Akademika. To buy you need student ID and proof that you have paid semester fee. Within each heading it is recommended that you read the articles etc in the order they are presented below.
Historiography
Iggers, Georg G: Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge, Middletown, CT 2005 (198 pp).
* Iggers, Georg G. and Edward Wang: ”Historiography after the Cold War, 1990–2007: A Critical Retrospect”, pp 364–401 in Iggers and Wang, A Global History of Modern Historiography, Harlow: Pearson Longman 2008 (37 pp).
* Aronsson, Peter, Narve Fulsås, Pertti Haapala and Bernard Eric Jensen: "Nordic National Histories", pp 256–282 in The Contested Nation : Ethnicity, Class, Religion and Gender in National Histories, Stefan Berger og Chris Lorenz (eds), Basingstoke 2008 (27 pp).
History as a Narrative Discipline
* Gallie, W. B. “Narrative and Historical Understanding”, pp 40–51 in The History and Narrative Reader, ed. Geoffrey Roberts. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. First published in History and Theory 3 (1963). (12 pp)
* Dray, William H. “On the Nature and Role of Narrative in History”, pp 25–39 in The History and Narrative Reader, ed. Geoffrey Roberts. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. First published in History and Theory 10 (1971). (15 pp)
* Murphey, Murray G. “Narrative”, pp. 103–134 in Murphey, Truth & History. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009 (32 pp).
Narrative and the Literary Turn
* Mink, Louis O. “Narrative Form as a Cognitive Instrument”, pp. 211–221 in The History and Narrative Reader, ed. Geoffrey Roberts. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. First published in R. H. Canary and H. Kozicki (eds), The Writing of History (1978). (11 pp)
* White, Hayden. «The Historical Text as a Literary Artifact», pp. 221–236 in The History and Narrative Reader, ed. Geoffrey Roberts. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. First published in Clio, no 3 (1974). (16 pp).
* Carroll, Noël: «Interpretation, History and Narrative», pp. 245–265 in The History and Narrative Reader, ed. Geoffrey Roberts. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. First published in The Monist 73 (1990). (21 pp)
* Spiegel, Gabrielle M. “Introduction”, pp 1-31 in Practicing History. New Directions in Historical Writing after the Linguistic Turn, ed. Spiegel. New York & London: Routledge, 2005 (31 pp).
Explanation: Causal and Others
* Hempel, Carl G. “Explanation in Science and in History”, pp 95–126 in Philosophical Analysis and History, ed. William H. Dray. New York and London: Harper & Row, 1966 (31 pp).
* Hart, H. L. A. and A. M. Honoré. “Causal Judgment in History and in the Law”, pp 213–238 in Philosophical Analysis and History, ed. William H. Dray. New York and London: Harper & Row, 1966 (26 pp).
* McCullagh, C. Behan. “Causes and Conditions in History”, pp 152–169 in McCullagh: The Logic of History. London and New York: Routledge, 2004 (18 pp).
* Carr, David: «Narrative Explanation and Its Malcontents», History and Theory 47 (2008), pp 19–31 (13 pp).
Objectivity and Values
* Beard, Charles A. “Written History as an Act of Faith”. The American Historical Review 39 (1934), pp. 219–231 (12 pp)
* Scott, Joan W. “History in Crisis: The Others’ Side of the Story”. The American Historical Review 94 (1989), pp.680–692 (13 pp)
* Mommsen, Wolfgang J. “Moral Commitment and Scholarly Detachment: The Social Function of the Historian”, pp. 45–56 in Historians and Social Values, eds Joep Leerssen and Ann Rigney. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2000. (12 pp).
* McCullagh, C. Behan: «Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation», History and Theory 39 (2000), pp 39–66 (27 pp).
Memory and History Use
* Nora, Pierre: “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire”. Representations 26 (Spring 1989), pp 7–24 (18 pp)
* Hutton, Patrick. ”Recent Scholarship on Memory and History”. The History Teacher 33 (2000), pp. 533–548 (16 pp)
Total: c. 586 pp