History & Historiography
The study of change over time.
What is history?
The role of a historian.
What is "doing" history?
A first-hand accont of an event
What is a primary source?
The act of understanding the values and limits of a source.
What is source evaluation?
What is John Michael Cunningham?
The study of history and historical debate.
What is historiography?
The type of sources historians produce.
What are secondary sources?
An analysis or interpretaion of a historical event.
What is a secondary source?
The method of source evaluation the IB program uses
What is OPCVL?
Something a historian does not do with evidence.
What is cherry-picking?
State one tyoe of historical approach.
Multiple answers
(Examples: Political Lens, Military Lens, Economic Lens, Social Lens, Cultural Lens, Marxist Lens, Intellectual Lens, Women's History Lens, Minority History Lens)
The distinction between a historian and an antiquarian.
What is doing history versus knowing facts about the past?
An example of a secondary source.
What are historical books, biographies, academic journals, dissertations, documentaries, political commentaries, analysis pieces, or reports about collected data?
Something that is neither a value or limit in a source?
What is bias?
A historical lens or approach that is no longer used.
What is the "Great Man" historical lens?
The methods or techniques historians use to understand and interpret the past.
What are historical approaches/lenses?
State one (of many) thing historians often write to share their arguments.
The type of source a census is.
What is a primary source?
The 5 components of source evaluation.
What is Origin, Purpose, Content, Value, Limit?
1. Changes and Continuities
2. Causes and Consequences
3. Significance and Perspective
A lens/approach that historians startes using in the 1960s.
What is a social or cultural lens?
The (3) steps taken by a historian.
What is:
1. Ask questions
2. Find evidence
3. Form arguments
A source that can be a primary or secondary source depending on the content (use the one mentioned in the slides).
What is a newspaper?
Multiple answers.
The most common historical appproch taught in schools.
What is a political historical lens?