History Flashcards
An account of the past
History
Derived from the Greek word ‘historia’, meaning?
“inquiry”, “knowledge from inquiry” or “judge”.
THREE CONCEPTS OF HISTORY
1) history-activity
2) history-as-record
3) history-as-historiography
The process of determining the true meaning and value of statements contained in a document.
Internal Criticism
TRUE/FALSE. It is positive if efforts are made to discover the true meaning of the contents of a document
TRUE
TRUE/FALSE. It is positive if efforts are exerted to find reasons for disbelieving the document’s contents.
FALSE
Used to determine the authenticity or genuineness of a historical document.
External Criticism
The imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process.
HISTORIOGRAPHY
the school of thought that emerged
between 18th and 19th century.
Positivism
the school of thought that requires empirical and observable evidence before one can claim that particular knowledge is true.
Positivism
The process of critically examining and
analyzing the records and survivals of the
past.
HISTORICAL METHOD
This perspective highlights the importance of facilitating an internal conversation and discourse among Filipinos about our own history,
Philippine Historiography
The Filipino Historian who introduced the new guiding philosophy for writing and teaching history
Zeus Salazar
the new guiding philosophy for writing and teaching history:
Pantayong Pananaw (for us-from-us perspective).
school of thought that emerged when formerly colonized nations grappled with the idea of creating their identities and understanding their societies against the shadows of their colonial past.
Postcolonialism
a school of history born in France that challenged the canons of history.
Annales School of History
married history with other disciplines like geography, anthropology, archeology, and linguistics.
Annales School of History
an account of individual experience that reveals the individual’s actions as a human agent and as a participant in social life.
Human Document
any self-revealing record that intentionally or unintentionally yields information regarding the structure, dynamics, and functioning of the author’s mental life.
Personal Document
synonymous with source, whether written or
not, official or not, primary or not.
DOCUMENT
used to mean written source of historical information
DOCUMENT
objects, other than words, that the historian can study.
ARTIFACTS
Reserved for only official and state papers
DOCUMENT
they are never the happenings or the events themselves, but rather the results of events.
ARTIFACTS
used by the historian among others; signifies any process of proof
DOCUMENT
Autobiography and memoirs
Primary
Works of art and literature
Primary
Bibliographical works
Secondary
Articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers after the event
Secondary
To describe a source, unpolished, uncopied, untranslated, as it issued from the hands of the
authors
ORIGINAL SOURCES
interprets and analyzes primary sources these sources are one or more steps removed from the event.
SECONDARY SOURCES
a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study.
PRIMARY SOURCES
These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event.
PRIMARY SOURCES
the intention of acquiring detached and truthful knowledge independent of one’s personal breactions
OBJECTIVE
based upon personal considerations, and hence either untrue or biased.
SUBJECTIVE
