Historiography: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 8 May 2006

Ambrose, Stephen.  Personal Reflections. 

Ankersmit, Frank.  Historical Representation.  Stanford, CA:  Stanford UP, 2001. 

Atwill, Janet M.  "Contingencies of Historical Representation."  Writing Histories of Rhetoric.  Ed. Victor Vitanza.  Carbondale, IL:  Southern Illinois UP, 1994.  98-111. 

Berkhofer, Robert F., Jr.  Beyond the Great Story:  History as Text and Discourse.  Cambridge, MA:  Belknap, 1995. 

"Bibliographical Essay."  Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians.  Ed. Michael G. Moran and Michelle Ballif.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood, 2000.  363-383. 

Brooks, Kevin. "Reviewing and Redescribing 'The Politics of Historiography': Octalog I, 1988." Rhetoric Review 16 (1997): 6-21.

Burke, Kenneth.  Attitudes Toward History.  New York:  New Republic, 1937.

Carpenter, Ronald H.  History as Rhetoric:  Style, Narrative, and Persuasion.  Columbia:  U South Carolina P, 1995. 

Certeau, Michel.  The Writing of History.  Trans. Tom Conley.  New York:  Columbia UP, 1988. 

Connors, Robert J.  "Dreams and Play:  Historical Method and Methodology."  Methods and Methodology in Composition Research.  Ed. Gesa Kirsch and Patricia A. Sullivan.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 1992.  15-36. 

Corbett, Edward P.J.  "The Writing Teacher as Historian."  The Writing Teacher as Researcher:  Essays in the Theory and Practice of Class-Based Research.  Ed. Donald A. Daiker and Max Morenberg.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 1990.  30-37. 

Duberman, Martin.  Left Out:  The Politics of Exclusion/Essays/1964-2002.  Cambridge, MA:  South End P, 2002. 

Eakin, Emily.  "Stop, Historians!  Don't Copy That Passage!  Computers Are Watching."  New York Times (26 January 2002):  B9. 

Ginzburg, Carlo.  History, Rhetoric, and Proof:  The Menachem Stern Lectures in History.  UP of New England, 1999. 

Hanssen, Beatrice.  Walter Benjamin's Other History:  Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels.  Los Angeles:  U California P, 2000. 

LaCapra, Dominick.  Writing History, Writing Trauma.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. 

McLemee, Scott.  "Seeing Red."  Chronicle of Higher Education 49.42 (27 June 2003):  A11.  <http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i42/42a01101.htm>.  Accessed 24 June 2003. 

Megill, Allan, and Diedre McCloskey.   "The Rhetoric of History."  The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences:  Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs.  Ed. John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, and Diedre McCloskey.  U Wisconsin P, 1991. 

Miller, Susan.  "Composition as a Cultural Artifact:  Rethinking History as Theory."  Writing Theory and Critical Theory.  Ed. John Clifford and John Schilb.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 1994.  19-32.

Nelms, Gerald. "The Case for Oral Evidence in Composition Historiography." Written Communication 9.3 (1992): 356-384.  [file Composition History]

Novick, Peter.  That Noble Dream:  The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession.  1988. 

Postel, Danny.  "In Wake of Controversies, Historians Debate Causes and Prevalence of Plagiarism."  The Chronicle of Higher Education 6 January 2003 < http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/01/2003010603n.htm> 8 January 2003. 

Potter, Claire Bond.  "The Problem of the Color Line:  Segregation, Politics, and Historical Writing." Cultural Critique 38 (Winter 1997). 

Sciappa, Edward.  "The Historian as Arguer."  Rhetoric Review 16.1 (Fall 1997):  36-38. 

Sherman, Sarah W.  "Inventing an Elephant:  History as Composition."  Only Connect: Uniting Reading and Writing.  Ed. Thomas Newkirk.  Upper Montclair, NJ:  Boynton/Cook, 1986.  211-26.

Simon, Linda.  "Advanced Disillusion:  The Writing of History."  How Writers Teach Writing.  Ed. Nancy Kline.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-Hall, 1992.  113-125. 

Sutton, Jane.  "Structuring the Narrative for the Canon of Rhetoric:  The Principles of Traditional Historiography (an Essay) with the Dead's Differend (a Collage)."  Writing Histories of Rhetoric.  Ed. Victor Vitanza.  Carbondale, IL:  Southern Illinois UP, 1994.  156-79. 

Vitanza, Victor, ed.  Writing Histories of Rhetoric.  Carbondale, IL:  Southern Illinois UP, 1994. 

White, Hayden. 

Wilson, Norman J.  History in Crisis?  Recent Directions in Historiography.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 1999.