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Understanding Historical Methods

This document discusses different aspects of studying history, including: - History can be studied subjectively based on memories or objectively based on physical evidence. - Artifacts result from past events but do not fully capture the essence of what happened. - Historical knowledge comes from surviving records, but some events left no records so cannot be proven. - There are processes of historical method and historiography - examining evidence critically and imaginatively reconstructing the past. - Primary sources are eyewitnesses while secondary sources did not witness events firsthand.

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Understanding Historical Methods

This document discusses different aspects of studying history, including: - History can be studied subjectively based on memories or objectively based on physical evidence. - Artifacts result from past events but do not fully capture the essence of what happened. - Historical knowledge comes from surviving records, but some events left no records so cannot be proven. - There are processes of historical method and historiography - examining evidence critically and imaginatively reconstructing the past. - Primary sources are eyewitnesses while secondary sources did not witness events firsthand.

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MRR 1.

1 Notes

Meaning of History through time

Subjective which meant that something is only present on one’s mind and can only be describe through
his memories. Whilst, an objective study is something that can be seen or physically present to be able to
describe something.

Artifacts are the result of an event in the past. However, they’re not the main event for which it happened.
It is only present on that time that has survived the present. No matter how much details it entails it isn’t
the essence of the study of history.

Historical knowledge is delivered differently by the surviving records of it. There are instances that there
are no surviving artifacts. Therefore, it can’t be proven to have happened in that life. In the readings, it
was said that only a part of what was observed was remembered by those who observe it. We can say
that they are present in the event but lacks record of what really happened. There are these terms called
History-as-actuality and history-as-record.

There are these process that are called as Historical method and historiography. Historical method is
defined as the process to which history is examined critically and the given artifacts are puzzled together
to create a scenario of the past. Historiography, on the other hand, is the process of imaginative
reconstruction of the events in the past. These are critically done by historian to give us a picture of the
past.

The process of historical method in the past is laid down to sorting out the fiction from the truth. It has
been said in the readings that there are four methods of historical analysis, for which, it has been a basis
of doing the historical method.

A primary source is a person who is an eyewitness of an event. He firsthand experienced or witnessed the
event itself and therefore could actually narrate what had happened during that event. Moreover, second
hand source is a person who is not an eyewitness nor is present in the event.

 Original documents
 Forged or misleading documents
 Tests of authenticity

The problem of credibility, or internal criticism

 Identification of Author
 Determination of approximate date
 Ability to tell the truth
 Willingness to tell the truth
 Conditions favorable to credibility
 Hearsay and secondary evidence
 Corroboration (?)

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