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AOK: History
Historical method
Understanding History
Historians job is not only to recall information but also understanding patterns. There can be a different interpretation of events or persons and a historians job is to understand this complexity. Same events can be understood differently.
Primary sources: Any object or written source from the time or based on the time being studied, for example, a diary from a Vietnam veteran.
Secondary sources: a second-hand account of a historical event such as a history book.
Synthesis: the placing together of different parts or elements "evidence" to form a connected whole
Selecting evidence
Primary sources are limited to what has survived.
Historians only need to select the relevant evidence- the evidence that is pertinent to the scope of their enquiry.
Historians choose different range of sources in order to see different biases.
Examining evidence
Historians commonly draw on both primary sources and secondary sources. Moreover, there is an appetite for additional modern secondary sources, with historians today re-visiting traditional areas. primary sources= bedrock of history
Assesing significance
History is not a record of everything that happened in the past but is concerned with only the significant events in the past.
A significant event can be a turning point that had far-reaching consequences in History.
Technology also affects significance.
Explaining the past
Long term- mid term- short term consequences, a historian offers reasons or causes that constitute an explanation of what happend.
The problem of bias
Essential to the historical method is the identification and evaluation of bias. Historical knowledge is still possible despite the problem of bias.
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Bias identified in evidence: A primary source may be biased if it implicitly or explicitly favours one particular viewpoints or person
Conformation bias: A historian might be tempted to appeal only to evidence that supports their own case, and to ignore any counter-evidence.
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