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Thinking About History

Thinking About History. or How to be popular and successful by thinking like a historian. Sources. Primary Sources : historical evidence produced at the time of the event, incident, idea, person, etc. Or as Richard Marius and Mel Page explain,

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Thinking About History

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  1. Thinking About History or How to be popular and successful by thinking like a historian.

  2. Sources • Primary Sources: historical evidence produced at the time of the event, incident, idea, person, etc. Or as Richard Marius and Mel Page explain, “texts [or other materials] nearest to any subject of investigation.” • Secondary Sources: Books or articles interpreting the past. • Cps question 1a and 1b

  3. From the Marius/Page book: • Question #1 What are the 5 questions historians should ask when using any source?

  4. Questioning Sources • Who? • What? • When? • Where? • Why?

  5. Question #2 • What value is there in studying history?

  6. What value is there in studying history? • Understanding the human experience in the past can help people negotiate their own times. • Discover what happened in the past and how it shaped the present. • Use historical thinking skills to solve life’s puzzles. • Analyze how consequences result from choices. • Learning EMPATHY

  7. Understanding the Past • What are the major hurdles to studying and understanding the past? But, be careful about your contemporary assumptions.The St. Denis story

  8. Historical Context • Identifying and understanding the most important trends of the period. Key: Secondary sources or: doing the background work

  9. Question #3 • What is “historical context?”

  10. Rogers, Rob. Pittsburgh Post Gazette, published in New York Times. August 26, 2007.

  11. Cameron Cardow, The Ottawa Citizen, February 3, 2010.

  12. Historiography Question #4 • What is historiography?

  13. Question #5 Bill is using a Straw Man argument in the following discussion. Why is his argument weak?

  14. Jill: "We should clean out the closets. They are getting a bit messy." 
Bill: "Why, we just went through those closets last year. Do we have to clean them out everyday?" 
Jill: "I never said anything about cleaning them out every day. You just want too keep all your junk forever, which is just ridiculous."

  15. Question #6 • What inferences can you make about this photograph?

  16. Question # 7 • Lynn Dumenil argues that recent work on the 1920s introduced new interpretations to the historiography of the period. • Name one of those new interpretations? What is new about this perspective?

  17. Scopes TrialHistorical Thinking Matters http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/ African American LivesTesting Evidence.htm Gates, Henry Louis Jr. African American Lives. PBS Home Video.Online resources at: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/ More Practice Analyzing Evidence

  18. Question #8 • Why was the Scopes Trial about more than simply a debate over evolution and how do these two primary documents help us to understand that debate? Why Historical Thinking Matters:The Scopes TrialCHNM

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