L1 Historical Theory

Question 1

How do we know what happened?

Answer 1

Primary source and secondary source

Question 2

Primary source

Answer 2

Something created and the time period You are studying

Ex: art, legal documents, laws, journals, diaries, letters, text, fiction, artifact (buildings cars) newspapers magazines speeches oral history eyewitnesses

Question 3

Primary source method of transmission

Answer 3

Written: journals diaries autobiographies correspondence laws codes legal documents

Non-written: civilizations that don’t have a written language (haudenosaunee)

Question 4

Non-written method of transmission

Answer 4

Oral history: eyewitness accounts stories from family not written down

Oral tradition: carefully keep something going generation after generation to help teach social conduct

Ex ring around the Rosie

Question 5

Secondary source

Answer 5

Want an academic writes an article or book based on primary source data

example:studies

Question 6

Tertiary source

Answer 6

No primary resource mostly secondary and other to Tertiary sources (can become primary source)

Example: textbook movies

Question 7

Problems in history and historical Theory

Answer 7

Source scarcity: Big issue, books and records get destroyed easily natural and deliberately

who writes history: usually the winners

Question 8

Historical theory bias

Answer 8

Ex: empiricism created by Leopold Von ranke 1800

Positive aspects: made history it’s on discipline, able to prove sources, gave us history department

Negative aspects: only excepted laws, records and correspondence narrowed history and focus primarily on white rich dead men

Changed in the 1970s

Question 9

Presentism

Answer 9

When you put modern values on people of the past

Example:
love and marriage now vs then
Now love and romance
Then survival