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HISTORIOGRAPHY

HISTORIOGRAPHY. HOW HISTORIANS TO HISTORY. WHY DO WE STUDY HISTORY?. People who are not historians sometimes think of history as the facts about the past. Historians are supposed to know otherwise.

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HISTORIOGRAPHY

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  1. HISTORIOGRAPHY HOW HISTORIANS TO HISTORY

  2. WHY DO WE STUDY HISTORY? People who are not historians sometimes think of history as the facts about the past. Historians are supposed to know otherwise. The facts are there, to be sure, but they are infinite in number and speak, if at all, in conflicting, often unintelligible, voices. It is the task of the historian to reach back into this incoherent babel of facts, choose the ones that are important, and figure out what it is they say.

  3. HISTORIOGRAPHY DEFINED Historiography is "the study of the way history has been and is written — the history of historical writing When you study 'historiography' you do not study the events of the past directly, but the changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians. Historiography is the written record of what is known of human lives and societies in the past and how historians have attempted to understand them.

  4. PROBLEMS WITH HISTORY The concern of all serious historians has been to collect and record facts about the human past and often to discover new facts. They have known that the information they have is incomplete, partly incorrect, or biased and requires careful attention.

  5. DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES When doing history, it helps to keep in mind that there are many different ways of determining how history happens. One of the key things to remember is that historians disagree very much over why almost any event happened. In the search for how things happen, we get ideas about how to understand our present world's events and what to do about them, if anything.

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  9. UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES • To understand how two historians can reach different conclusions regarding the same historical event, it is helpful to ask three questions: • 1) When did they write? • What access to evidence did they have? • 2) Where are they from and does this effect their view? • 3) What is the ideological background that shaped their worldview?

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