The study of studying History Thoughts on History The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history George Orwell That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons tha ID: 274586
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Historiography
The study of studying HistorySlide2
Thoughts on History
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
―
George
Orwell
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
―
Aldous Huxley,
Collected
Essays
“Study the past if you would define the future.”
―
Confucius
“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
―
Bertolt
Brecht
“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
―
Michael CrichtonSlide3
Think-Pair-Share
Answer the following questions with a partner in one- two sentences:
What is history
?
Why
do we study it?
How
do we study it?Slide4
Responses
History is the study of the human condition
.
We study it by looking at a) Primary sources b) Secondary sources c) current states of human condition.
We use these sources to study trends and patterns over time, specific historical events and important figures.
We
study history to understand
ourselves; In
essence, history is the most self-reflective academic study.
In terms of utility, we
can recognize patterns, refrain from repeating bad patterns or occurrences, and recognize beneficial practices.
On a personal level, studying
history lends
one
a sense of connection with their
past
and present human community. We can understand how we got to where we are, and
predict where
we are headed. Really it is a “know thyself”
study
Slide5
Primary Sources
A primary source is anything that was written by a witness/ someone in close temporal and physical contact with the event itself. It is something that directly represents an event or culture, or is a direct product thereof. Letters, first hand accounts, contemporary charts or reports, photos, contemporary propaganda, art, artifacts and
architechture
, contemporary creative writing.Slide6
Secondary Sources
A secondary source is a “second hand account” of a historical event. This would be anything that was written substantially after the
fact. EX
: biography, textbook, non-fiction, movie,
ect
.Slide7
Identifying sources
Stationed around the room are 9 source materials.
Write the number of the source on a sheet of paper and state whether it is a primary or secondary source. Explain your response for each.
Which sources do you think are more beneficial in historical research? Why?