History
The focus on the recovery and interpretation of the past.
The role of a historian
The study and record of everything that has occurred in the past.
History
_______________ is human activities and events that were not recorded by human hands.
Unrecorded past
What is external criticism?
It is the assertion that a document is genuine.
Age, gender, nationality, social, religious and political interests and class.
Biases of a researcher/historian.
These are written documents or oral sources such as songs and stories.
Recorded History
History is crucial to ________ formation.
Identity
Can a document be purely objective?
No
Coins, buildings, clothing, letters, newspapers, songs and maps.
Primary Sources
The meaning of a text.
Internal criticism
___________ history refers to things written from a male perspective.
Androcentric
What is subjectivity?
Subjectivity implies that the information is influenced by the individual’s view point.
Carbon dating; sometimes archaeological, linguistic or electronic.
Tools used by a researcher/historian
The perspective of a particular ethnicity.
Ethnocentric
By nature, human beings are _______.
Subjective/biased
In the television saga “Roots” Kunta Kinte repeated the story of his family’s history to his daughter. Why is storytelling an important part of preserving history?
Some societies are a illiterate
Historians use two types of documents.
Primary and secondary sources
Text written by a researcher.
Secondary sources
A person can retrieve any recorded history through_________ and __________.
Archaeology and oral history
The American Declaration of Independence(1776):“We hold theses truths to beself-evident, that all men are created equal”
When Jefferson used the term “all men”, he did not mean it as we use it today. At the time“all men”only included white men. This is an example of what?
Internal criticism