Module 1: "History, Sources, Criticism" Flashcards
History, from Greek _______, Historia, “_______,
knowledge acquired by
investigation”
ἱστορία
inquiry
Is the study of the
past as it is described in written
documents.
History
Events occurring before written record are considered ______
prehistory
It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the ____________of information about these events.
memory,
discovery,
collection,
organization,
presentation, and interpretation
Scholars who write about history are called ________.
historians
Give 4 historians
- Teodoro Agoncillo
- Trinidad Pardo de Tavera
- Fr. Horacio de la Costa, SJ
- Gregorio F. Zaide
Is the sum total of everything
that has actually happened in the
past-every thought, every action,
every event.
History
In this sense, “history” is
surely on of the broadest concepts
conceived by the _______
human intellect
History as broadly defined, as encompasses the __________.
entire scope of the human experience on this planet.
History is not ‘_________’ rather, it is the act of selecting, analyzing, and writing the past.
what happened in the past
Famous Quotes about history
“To be ignorant of the past is to remain always a child.”
by ___________
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Famous Quotes about history
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
by ___________
George Santayana
Famous Quotes about history
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul
by ___________
John Dalberg Acton
Famous Quotes about history
“History is written by
the victors.”
by ___________
Winston Churchill
Famous Quotes about history
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
by ___________
Marcus Garvey
Famous Quotes about history
There is no future
without memory.
by ___________
Jacques Chirac
Famous Quotes about history
“The study of the past with one
eye upon the present is the
source of all sins and
sophistries in history. It is the
essence of what we mean by the
word “unhistorical”.”
by ___________
Herbert Butterfield
Famous Quotes about history
“I shall relate quite simply how things happened and without adding anything of my own, which is no small feat for an historian.”
by ___________
― François-Marie Arouet
“Voltaire”
Famous Quotes about history
“The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and
meaningless.”
by ___________
Edward Hallett Carr
Famous Quotes about history
“In your travel, learn the
brief history of the place
visited. History is rich
knowledge.”
by ___________
Lailah Gifty Akita
Famous Quotes about history
“History teaches us that man
learns nothing from history.”
by __________
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Famous Quotes about history
“Life can only be
understood backwards
but it must be lived
forward.”
by ___________
Soren Kierkegaard
Famous Quotes about history
Writers are historians,
too. It is in literature that
the greater truths about a
people and their past are
found.”
by ___________
-Francisco Sionil Jose
Famous Quotes about history
We are not makers of
history. We are made by
history.
by ___________
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Famous Quotes about history
“History is the version
of past events that
people have decided to
agree upon.”
by ___________
Napoleon Bonaparte
Famous Quotes about history
“History never
looks like history
when you are
living through it.”
by ___________
John W. Gardner
Famous Quotes about history
“Fear history, for
it respects no
secrets.”
by ___________
Gregoria de Jesus
There are diverse sources of history including
documentary sources or documents, archeological
records, and
oral and video accounts.
These refer to handwritten, printed, drawn, designed, and other composed materials.
Documents
These refer to preserved remains of human beings,
their activities, and the environment where they lived.
Archeological Records
These form the third kind of historical source. These
are audio-visual documentation of people, events, and places.
Oral and Video Account
These refer to documents, physical objects, and oral/video accounts made by an individual; or a group present at the time and place being described.
Primary Sources
These are materials made by people long after the events being described had taken place.
Secondary Sources
Answers concerns and questions pertinent to the authenticity of a historical source by identifying who composed the historical material, locating when and where the historical material was produced, and establishing the material’s evidential value.
External Criticism
Deals with the credibility and reliability of the content of a given historical source. This kind of criticism focuses on understanding the substance and message that the historical material wants to convey by examine how the
author frame the intent and meaning of a composed material.
Internal Criticism
There are substantial primary sources about the Philippines here and abroad. In the country, government institutions such as ______________ and the ______________ are major repositories of documentary sources.
National Library, and
the National Archives
It has a complete microfilm copies of the Philippine Revolutionary Records, compilation of captured documents of Emilio Aguinaldo’s revolutionary government, and Historical Data Papers, a collection of
“history and cultural life” of all towns in the country. =
National Library
It holds a substantial collection of catalogued and uncatalogued Spanish documents about the Philippines composed from 1552-1900.
National Archives
a. University of the Philippines
b. Ateneo de Manila University
c. University of Santo Tomas
d. University of San Carlos
are called __________
Academic institution
a. Ayala Museum
b. Lopez Museum
c. Religious Congregations
are called _________
Privately Owned Museum and Archives
“History is a Greek word which means, literally, just Investigation”
Arnold Toynbee
