WEEK 2

• "Historia" meaning

  Knowledge acquired through inquiry or investiation
• History became a relevant academic discipline,


  It focused on writing about wars, revolutions, and other significant breakthroughs.
• Historia

  became known as the account of the past of a person or of a group of people through written documents and historical evidences.
• Historian's Duty

  To write about the lives of significant individuals like monarchs, heroes, saints and nobilities.
• Mantra of traditional historians

  No document, no history
• History progressed,

  It opened up to valid historical sources, which were not limited to written documents like government records, chroniclers' accounts, or personal letters.
• Importance of studying history

  • Widens your knowledge of current affairs

  • Develops understanding of changes through perspectives of political, social, cultural, economic, religious, and scientific history

  • Develops an appreciation of the society in which you live and other societies, past and present

  • Develops a greater awareness of your own identity and traditions
• Unless a written document can prove a particular event,


  then it can't be considered as a historical fact.
• HISTORICAL SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT

  1. Positivism
  2. Post-colonialism
  3. Annales School of History
• Positivism

  thought that requires empirical and observable evidence before one can claim that particular knowledge is right.
• What does 2 things Post-Colonialism looks at in writing history?

  1. Expose the history of their country that will highlight their identity free from colonial knowledge and discourse.
  2. Criticize the idea, effects, and methods of colonialism. A reaction and alternative to colonial history.
• What does the Annales School of History advocate for?

  The people and classes who were not grandly reflected in society’s history be provided with space in the records of humanity because of the MANTRA.
• What are the types of historical sources?

  1. Primary Sources
  2. Secondary Sources
• What are primary sources?

  Produced at the same time as event, period, or subject
• What are secondary sources?

  Produced by an author who used primary sources to produce the materials.
• HISTORY

  focused on writing about wars, revolutions, & other significant breakthroughs.
• History

  derived from "Historia"
• POST-COLONIALISM

  early 20th century
• ANNALES SCHOOL OF HISTORY

  originated in France that challenged canons of history
• ANNALES SCHOOL OF HISTORY

  Usual historical subj that were at most always related to the ways of states and monarchs
• POSITIVISM

  between 18th and 19th centuries
• POSITIVISM

  Entails an objective means of concluding.
• POSITIVISM

  “No document, no history”, expected to be objective and impartial.
• WHY STUDY HISTORY

  • Widens your knowledge of current affairs.
  • Develop his understanding of change through perspectives of political, social, cultural, economic, religious, and scientific history.
• "No document, no history.”

  means that unless a written document can prove a particular event, then it cannot be considered as a historical fact.
• History as a discipline, existed for 2400 years and is as old as mathematics and philosophy
• Primary Sources

  Eyewitness accounts of the delegates and their memoirs
• Primary Sources Examples

  • archival document, artifacts, censes, memorabilia, letters, government records, diaries/journals, art/artificats, speeches.
• Secondary Sources

  • Historical sources which studied a particular historical subject.
• Secondary Sources Examples

  • Textbooks, articles, websites, movies, school repors/essays
• Relevance of History to our Life

  • Develops an appreciation of the society in which you live and other societies, past and present.
  • Develops a greater awareness of your own identity and traditions.