Historical Thinking Concepts

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Annotation

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Adding notes or comments. Talking to the Text

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Bias

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Prejudice in favor or against

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Close reading

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looking at the claims the author is making and whether or not we can trust those claims.​

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Contextualize

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locate the document in time and place. Seeking out what other events were going on in the world that might have influenced the document.​

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Corroboration

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considering what other sources on the event/topic say

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History

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Study of past events

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Historically Thinking

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Analyzing past critically

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Multipersecivity

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Multiple perspectives

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Point of view

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Perspective or opinion

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Primary source

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a document, first-hand account, or other source that constitutes direct evidence of an object of study: