history 1001
What is History? interpretation of the past gathering evidence & analyzing it, making interpretations way to construct arguments about past based on evidence goal of class is to teach how to think historically
Herodotus ca. 484-420 BC
Greek writer of “The History of the Persian Wars” used the word Historion (greek word - questioning, inquiry, investigation, gathering of evidence) his work is an investigation on a war etc. it’s something active - History is investigation/questioning.
Primary sources and Secondary Sources
Primary - first hand account of events, ex: diary; evidence from the time period that you're studying
Secondary - source created by using primary sources, ex: text book, professor, 2nd half of our book - sources, contemporary historians providing you w/their interpretation of the past based on their reading of primary sources ex: professor, hear her interpretation of the past; students offering their interpretations of the primary sources
Types of Evidence: things that help historians write histories: newspapers, facebook, movies, clothes, bones/bodies (nutrition, foods we ate), journals/diaries, video games, stadium/helmets/pads, fee bills, letters home
If you give 2 diff historians diff things from above, there may be diff interpretations - b/c of evidence or the type of person they are look @ evidence & ask questions - have to buy new books about old shit - b/c there is NEW evidence, cultures change over time - diff interests, diff questions about the past, every society looks @ past with questions that concern it
Types of History political, social, intellectual, cultural, women/gender, religious, military, economic, science, institutional & more if all the evidence is destroyed and only history of LSU was one dude’s baseball cap, can you reconstruct this world? No. Is this history lost completely? Cap = artifact in class we will look @ some things that we don’t have a lot of evidence about. Ex:
Herodotus ca. 484-420 BC
Greek writer of “The History of the Persian Wars” used the word Historion (greek word - questioning, inquiry, investigation, gathering of evidence) his work is an investigation on a war etc. it’s something active - History is investigation/questioning.
Primary sources and Secondary Sources
Primary - first hand account of events, ex: diary; evidence from the time period that you're studying
Secondary - source created by using primary sources, ex: text book, professor, 2nd half of our book - sources, contemporary historians providing you w/their interpretation of the past based on their reading of primary sources ex: professor, hear her interpretation of the past; students offering their interpretations of the primary sources
Types of Evidence: things that help historians write histories: newspapers, facebook, movies, clothes, bones/bodies (nutrition, foods we ate), journals/diaries, video games, stadium/helmets/pads, fee bills, letters home
If you give 2 diff historians diff things from above, there may be diff interpretations - b/c of evidence or the type of person they are look @ evidence & ask questions - have to buy new books about old shit - b/c there is NEW evidence, cultures change over time - diff interests, diff questions about the past, every society looks @ past with questions that concern it
Types of History political, social, intellectual, cultural, women/gender, religious, military, economic, science, institutional & more if all the evidence is destroyed and only history of LSU was one dude’s baseball cap, can you reconstruct this world? No. Is this history lost completely? Cap = artifact in class we will look @ some things that we don’t have a lot of evidence about. Ex: