1. What is history?

2. What is history? history is the study of the human past
historians study records of past events and prepare new records based on their discoveries

3. Two Sources of History
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources

4. Primary Sources
Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events occurred. Primary sources may include letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, newspapers, speeches, interviews, memoirs, documents produced by government agencies such as Congress or the Office of the President, photographs, audio recordings, moving pictures or video recordings, research data, and objects or artifacts such as works of art or ancient roads, buildings, tools, and weapons.

5. Primary Sources
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS
ARTIFACTS

6. Secondary Sources
Materials prepared later by people who study primary sources
Historians create secondary sources from their study of primary sources

7. How does history happen?
1. People change history.

8. How does history happen?
2. Ideas become irresistible forces that dictate history
ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL

9. How does history happen?
3. All civilizations are faced with a crisis which is either one of ideas, or one of technology.

10. How does history happen?
New ideas conflict with old ideas.
Monarchy vs Democracy

11. How does history happen?
5.People divide into class systems
Dominant classes control means of production
Dominant classes have power over other classes and the government
It is difficult to end the power of dominant class systems

12. How does history happen?
6.Geography dictates history
Washington Crossing the Delaware River
South Pass, Wyoming

14. How does history happen?
7.Winners dominate History
Those who win write history
History is dominated by those in power
The “real” story of those who lost sometimes remains unwritten
What happened at Topaz?
Indians or Native Americans?
Savage or Cultural Icon?

15. How does history happen?
8.Ideas and practices simply come together in various places that can hardly be predicted.

16. How can we interpret history?
When was it written or produced?
Where was it written or produced?
Who Produced it?
What influenced the Production?
In what original form was it produced?

17. What Thinking skills should a history student develop?
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Knowledge- What are the Facts?
Comprehension- Do you understand what happened?
Application- How does it relate to today?
Analysis- Hidden meanings, compare and contrast, organization of ideas
Synthesis- Cause and effect, predict
and make conclusions, bring together knowledge from several areas
Evaluation- Evaluate the decisions of historical people. Access the value of historical theories.
Easy
Hard