Scope
Common question in examining the scope of history.
What is "How does a historian account to reflect the past accurately?"
A problem with the demographic of History Teachers in UK schools?
What is the Lack of diversity and intersectionality (For example, the first black female history professor in the UK was appointed in 2018, which is very recent)
The value in an absence of proof
What is being able to analyse why there is nothing / allowing for historians to make subjective "gap fillers"?
Something that involves the restoration of rights, returning to a prior status, or making up for damage or loss
Capital of the Byzantine Empire
What is Constantinople?
History is not the __, but the study of the __ and the knowledge resulting from the study.
What is "Past"
The reason for there are textbook revision projects
What is Textbooks inevitably selecting, omitting, rearranging, interpreting, and simplifying traces of history
The acronym for how to view history.
What is OVPL (origin, value, purpose, limitations)?
How has unethical history been essential to imperialism?
Framed colonialism in a light of “need” of Europeans
The company that collapsed during the 2008 economic crisis.
What are the Lehman Brothers
Protohistory
What is "Gap between the advent of literacy and the writings of the first historians"
One of the two famous historians representing two schools of thought (The textbooks What is History and The Practice of History)
Who is Geoffrey Elton or E.H Carr
History can be called an art because.
What is we can't 100% prove the past, so it will always possess subjectivity?
An ethical history needs a self-aware history and historians. Why is this harder said than done?
Even when trying to be completely neutral, historians unknowingly add in their own moral values
Where does history begin?
What is "Development of literacy"
The importance of perspectives in History
SUBJECTIVE but what are answers that address how different groups have their own personal histories and therefore we need a more holistic view, and we get that from more perspectives
The three factors causing hindsight bias.
What is memory distortion, inevitability, forseeability?
Who were the three figures who were considered great by the standards of their time, but not by the standards of today?
Winston Churchill
Cecil Rhodes
Aristotle
Largest German warship during ww1
What is the Bismarck?
Example of a perspective used in written records and historical narratives?
What is "Colonialism"
Brenda Marshall's Post-modernist view of history
What is “Postmodernism is about histories not told, retold, untold. History as it never was. Histories forgotten, hidden, invisible, considered unimportant, changed, eradicated. It’s about the refusal to see history as linear, as leading straight up to today in some recognizable pattern-all set for us to make sense of it. It’s about chance. It’s about power. It’s about information” or smth along those lines"
Leopold von Ranke's view on history.
What is historians simply present available records of the past in the form of empirical facts to display history through an objective lense?
Julian Baggini proposed which two statements on the relationship between individual autonomy and social influence?
1. The core of human responsibility is the individual
2. Individuals enclosed in an immoral system can overcome that system
When is Eric Yang's birthday
December 8 2006