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Why Study History?

History is our knowledge of the past and involves the study of its records or sources of information. Why Study History?. Place names Personal names Language origins Values & Beliefs Institutions. kisiskâciwani-sîpiy , “swift flowing river,” is Saskatchewan Johannson “son of Johann”

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Why Study History?

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  1. History is our knowledge of the past and involves the study of its records or sources of information.

  2. Why Study History? • Place names • Personal names • Language origins • Values & Beliefs • Institutions • kisiskâciwani-sîpiy, “swift flowing river,” is Saskatchewan • Johannson “son of Johann” • “Politics” from Greek, “algebra” from Arabic, “restaurant” from French • Ideas such as “democracy” from Greece • The speaker in parliament

  3. Memory • Gives us a personal past • History preserves memories • Provide a shared sense of identity • Is unreliable • May create a false version of events (deliberate or unintentional)

  4. Historical Thinking • Never-ending debate about why something happened, its results and its importance • Can’t know the past directly; only indirectly through evidence (words, thoughts, records of people who experienced it) • Lots we can’t know because no records or incomplete • Need to understand the difference between facts & interpretations • Need to be skeptical

  5. Archives • Archives are collections of visual, written and oral records kept in special building or rooms • May be used to research family history, land claims, property titles

  6. Museums • Are places where objects of permanent interest are preserved, studied & exhibited • May specialize in one aspect such as natural history, war, transportation • Living museums allow visitors to travel back to the past and see what life was like Western Development Museum, Saskatoon

  7. Primary Sources • Anything that existed at the time being researched • Examples: diary, photograph, map, census, letter, church records

  8. Secondary Sources • Anything that was created or written after an event occurred

  9. Historians & History • sources may be incomplete, biased or inaccurate • Sources need to be organized to make a point • History combines description, explanation, and interpretation but interpretation must be based on the evidence • History is both a science and an art • Science because historians find evidence, test it, and provide theories • Art because sources must tell a story

  10. His story or Her story? • Most history written by men, about men & their activities • Women only remembered if important in men’s lives such as Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc • Women’s movement of 1960’s changed things • Now looking at women’s work, marriage, childbirth & rearing (women’s place in society

  11. Social History • Most history written to remember & praise famous people • Used to make people proud of their tribe, religion, & country • Used as way to prove one group superior over the other • Social history is story of everyone & everything: crime, family, work, institutions

  12. Oral history • Gained by interviewing people with personal knowledge/experience • Another type of evidence • Primary source of First Nations people of Canada • Passed on from generation to generation • Interview famous & common people • Disadvantage: people forget, may not remember accurately, not tell truth

  13. Visual History • Objects & representations such as building, clothing, pottery, paintings, cartoons, maps, photographs, posters, • Reveal things about ideas and beliefs of people who created them • Painting often done to make a point, flatter the subject • How reliable is the source of information? Why was it created?

  14. How reliable is this for 2010 fashion?

  15. 1950’s 1930’s 1980’s

  16. Visual history

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