PPT-Historians at Work – How We Find Out About the Past

1 The Job of the Historian WHAT YOU WILL LEARN At the end of this chapter you should understand What is history The work of the historian and the use of historical methods Different types of sources and evidence. American Historical Review. Comparative Studies in Society and History. Journal of American History. Journal of Modern History. Past & Present. Statistical tables and graphs per 1000 pages of articles: five top-cited history journals, 1945-2009. Epistemology: Decoding . History. Leah . Shopkow. with Arlene Diaz, Joan Middendorf, and David Pace. Bottlenecks reveal naïve ways of operating and point to what is not understood about the ways of operating in the discipline. We are calling for epistemology to be moved from the periphery to become the core of teaching—as central to teaching as it is to research. through the . CAMOUFLAGE. Read and Say Something . . Regardless of personal religious belief, no true student of history can emerge from study without a scholarly appreciation for the significant role of religion in the development of human civilization.. Looking at Buildings. Connoisseurship is essentially a means of judging or appreciating the value of artifacts is also its principal problem.. Style is inevitably immutable. One style does not flow seamlessly into another. Rather the intentions of each style are stated emphatically and discrete instances are judged according to a standard. To be useful stylistic nomenclature should describe visual features, however, many long-established terms--colonial and Victorian-- refer essentially to historical and political periods and tell little about the building's appearance.. Utah Studies. Answer these two questions. On your power point guide, please take a minute and answer the first two questions.. These are the questions:. What does the word history mean?. What is a historian?. How Historians Work. Historiography. Ideas and methods that historians use to research and present history. Like detectives investigating modern day crimes…. Evidence. Sources. Historians look for evidence to answer questions. L/O – To define what history is and identify how it is produced . Starter Question. – What is ‘History’? What is the ‘Past’?. Philosopher. (loud and clear): Men cannot really know the past.. DBQs. Do Now. SWBAT analyze a historical document . Do Now: you think that your (hypothetical) boyfriend/girlfriend is cheating on you. You see on their . Facebook. that another boy or girl has written “Nice talk last night. I will .  . Introduction. Assessment. Basic Knowledge Pre Test. Continents and Oceans Test. Timeline assignment. Quiz. 1. North America, 2. South America, 3. Africa, 4. Europe, 5. Asia, 6. Antarctica, 7. Australia . What You Will Learn…. In this chapter you will learn how historians study the ancient world to unlock the mysteries of the past. In this photo a diver examines an ancient jar off the coast of Israel.. OC1.05. Professor David Lambert. 3-4pm, 27. th. . February 2017. http://youtu.be/Df-uemc-e3w. (Christopher Columbus). Carving up space. How do historians carve up space?. What geographical units form the basis for how we interpret the past – and where do these come from?. L/O – To explore how historians find out about the past and decide why evidence is so important. Starter. – In your books, brainstorm ways in which we can find out about the past. Doing History: Using Evidence. American Historical Review. Comparative Studies in Society and History. Journal of American History. Journal of Modern History. Past & Present. Statistical tables and graphs per 1000 pages of articles: five top-cited history journals, 1945-2009. How do Archaeologists ANALYZE DATA and ARTIFACTS?. History. What TOOLS do historians use to unlock the secrets of the past?. Artifacts. Primary sources. Secondary Sources. Once all of the tools to unlocking the past have been collected and analyzed, how do historians DRAW CONCLUSIONS about the past?.