Resources include a PowerPoint and a word document to enable you to quickly familiarise students with a strong basic understanding of what History in actuality is, a number of concepts are laid out... Excellent as an overview of what History is - with the focus being on History as the study and interpretation of the past based on evidence. The idea being to therefore move students away from the common and simplistic view of History as merely the past. These notes are therefore a must for any History student and or teacher.
The term history may be employed in two quite different senses.
It may mean:
1. The events and actions that together make up the human past, or simply what man has done in the past since actions lead to events. This view of history could therefore possibly (though not necessarily) include all of man’s past or pre-history as well.
OR
2. The accounts (writings) given of that past, as well as the modes of investigation by which these accounts were arrived at or constructed. In this sense, the term history means only our recorded history and, as such, it is by its very nature subject to interpretation (and therefore bias and opinion). This also accounts for why there are so many varying yet recognised approaches to the study of history. Indeed one may even speak about the history of history – hence the development of historical inquiry.
Thus, when used in the first sense, the word history refers to what factually happened (given what evidence we may have), while in the second sense it refers to the study and description of those happenings.
The term history may be employed in two quite different senses.
It may mean:
1. The events and actions that together make up the human past, or simply what man has done in the past since actions lead to events. This view of history could therefore possibly (though not necessarily) include all of man’s past or pre-history as well.
OR
2. The accounts (writings) given of that past, as well as the modes of investigation by which these accounts were arrived at or constructed. In this sense, the term history means only our recorded history and, as such, it is by its very nature subject to interpretation (and therefore bias and opinion). This also accounts for why there are so many varying yet recognised approaches to the study of history. Indeed one may even speak about the history of history – hence the development of historical inquiry.
Thus, when used in the first sense, the word history refers to what factually happened (given what evidence we may have), while in the second sense it refers to the study and description of those happenings.
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