Historian

knowledge in History and Natural Science is discovered and scientists and historians use inductive reasoning, which is using multiple pieces of evidence to reach a certain conclusion. Also, historical and scientific explanations help human beings to better understand themselves and the world around them. Historical explanations are gained through the careful examination of the occurrences in the past. Historians use primary source documents to learn about the events that occur in the…

saying that the answer to the titular question will always be answered in a biased manner. He believes that the answer will always be a reflection of prevailing societal conditions at that time. To counter such moralization of history, a new crop of historians arose in 1930s, who gave a lot of importance to facts and were very empirical in their approach. They believed that the facts "would speak for themselves". Carr called this period…

or, as many southerns believe for states’ rights. Which brings up the disparity between what historians and the general public think and the controversy over the cause of the Civil War and history. The disparity between what historians and the general public think is because it is what historians know to be true and what the general public have learned to believe to be true. University of Virginia historian Edward…

I cannot believe that naïve Paul Giganti from fifteen weeks ago only thought about using his history minor towards a career as a historian or archeologist! Looking back, the only part of my former reflection which still echoes is my confidence in the importance of history to society. This history careers course has opened my eyes up to understanding who I am as an individual as well as the wider range of possibilities for a history career. So within this reflection essay I will explain how the…

There were many events and attitudes that a good portion of French men and women would like to forget. Many governmental officials, historians, and citizens of that time period repressed or consciously used policies and writings to perpetuate a myth that allowed for these same events and attitudes to fall by the wayside. In recent years, revisionist historians, or historians who look at the memories of past events and try to reconcile them with actual evidence, have debunked the myths of…

recording and studying them. In History, it could be argued that robust knowledge is knowledge that requires a lot of evidence and consensus from historians that study it. Disagreement is a major part of historical studies. Historians come together to conventions where they present and discuss their works and theories and listen to criticism of other historians thus coming closer to a single conclusion about a certain event. Sounds close to the definition of robust knowledge from the…

History is a composition of past events. It is real and honest. However, the materials used by historians (which are called sources) to study history are only records of history, so they need not to be absolutely true and unbiased. If a group of scholars were to evaluate a set of clues surrounding a play, they would mainly use texts and written records of the play and all these evidences are considered sources which therefore need to be carefully examined before put into use. To these scholars,…

synthesizing varied historians…

it seems imperative that academics from multiple disciplines employ their expertise to expose the threat of the continued human degradation of the planet and to offer solutions to these critical environmental questions. In particular, the work of historians can find equal application in the field of environmental activism. For example, the studying of historical trends in human behaviour and action can, as academic Alfred Crosby exemplifies, reveal the falsity of the nature-culture binary that…

doing and why the document that is being analyzed even exists and what it did for this country, if not the world. In the books Historical Thinking and other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past, and the Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, authors Sam Wineburg and John Lewis Gaddis, respectively, try to make sense of the field of history in several ways: As a body of knowledge, research field, political…