| Considers the time and place the historical document was written as well as the situation or the circumstances during the time. | Context analysis |
| Questions to consider in learning history and understanding sources: | How authoritative is the account/source?; How is it relevant today? |
| The Historian's duty | To draw insights from the ideas and realities that have shaped the lives of the society
To comprehend how situations happened, important elements involved; how these situations can solve the current times' predicaments and help plan for the future. |
| What is History? | It is the study of belief and desires, practices and institutions of human beings. |
| Why study History? | It teaches us to see the world through different eyes - appreciating diversity of human perceptions, beliefs and cultures.
Different perspectives will enable us to critically analyze the present context of society and beings. |
| Meaning of History is derived from? | Greek word "chuchu" read as "istoia" |
| "istoia" means? | Learning |
| What is the meaning of "History" for Aristotle? | "It is a systematic account of a set of natural phenomena, whether or not chronological factoring was a factor in the account." |
| Meaning of "History": Latin word? | Scientia ("science") came to be used more regularly to designate non-chronological systematic accounts of natural phenomena. |
| Is the past of mankind | History |
| Materials produced by people of groups directly involved in the event or topic being studied. | Primary sources |
| 8 Examples of Primary Sources | Photographs reflecting social conditions of historical realities & everyday life
Old sketches/drawings that indicate conditions of life of past societies
Old maps that may reveal how space & geography were used to emphasize trade routs, structural build-up, etc.
Cartoons for political expression or propaganda
Material evidence of the prehistoric past like cave drawings, old syllabaries and ancient writings.
Statistical tables, graphs and charts
oral history or recordings by electronic means of accounts of eyewitnesses or participants; recordings are then transcribed and used for research.
Published or unpublished primary documents, eyewitness accounts, and other written sources. |
| Gottschalk simply defines as "the testimony of anyone who is NOT an eyewitness-that is of one who was not present at the event of which he tells" (p.53) | Secondary sources |
