M1

• History originates from the Greek word historie (ἱστορια) which means learning or a systematic account of phenomena.
• The German word for history is Geschehen, which is derived from the verb to happen.
• The two components of history, a narrative about past events that has meaning to a certain group of people in a given time and place, are inseparable.
• History is not just about the narratives that were written in other parts of the world which we don’t understand or that which remotely have no meaning to us.
• History can be categorized into “history in its objective content” and “history in its subjective content”.
• To be studied objectively, a thing must first be an object, it must have an independent existence outside the human mind.
• Recollections, however, do not have existence outside the human mind; and most of history is based upon recollections, which are written or spoken testimony.
• Artifacts, such as potsherds, coins, ruins, manuscripts, books, portraits, stamps, pieces of wreckage, strands of hair, or other archeological or anthropological remains, are raw materials out of which history may be written.
• The imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process is called historiography (the writing of history).
• A primary source is the testimony of an eyewitness, or of a witness by any other of the senses, or of a mechanical device like the dictaphone that is, of one who or that which was present at the events of which he or it tells.
• A document is a written source of historical information as contrasted with oral testimony or with artifacts, pictorial survivals, and archeological remains.
• Historical method includes the selection of a subject for investigation; the collection of probable sources of information on the subject; the examination of those sources for genuineness (either in whole or in part); and the extraction of credible particulars from the sources (or parts of sources) proved genuine.
• A human document has been defined as “an account of individual experience which reveals the individual’s actions as a human agent and as a participant in social life.”
• A secondary source is the testimony of anyone who is not an eyewitness – that is, of one who was not present at the events of which he tells.
• An original source is one that contains fresh and creative ideas, is in its earliest, unpolished stage, has an approved text, unmodified and untampered with, and is the earliest available source of the information it provides.
• The process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past is here called historical method.
• The whole history of the past (what has been called history-as-actuality) can be known to a historian only through the surviving record of it (history-as-record), and most of history-as-record is only the surviving part of the recorded part of the remembered part of the observed part of that whole.
• A historical context can be given to them only if they can be placed in a human setting.
• Greek origin historie (ιστορια) = learning ; systematic account of phenomenon
• German word for history – Geshchichte, which is derived from geschehen, meaning to happen
• Zeus Salazar's "and kasaysayan ay isang salaysay na may saysay sa mga taong nagsasaysay"
• Kasaysayan is rooted in two words salaysay, which means a narrative or a story and, more important, saysay or meaning.
• Without both you cannot have true history (Ambeth Ocampo)