Historical Thinking Skills flashcard practice

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Definition: Who wrote this? What is the author's perspective? Why was it written? When was it written? Where was it written? Is it reliable? Why? Why not? Options: Questions to be asked about Contextualization:, Questions to be asked about Corroboration:, Questions to be asked about Sourcing:, History

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Questions to be asked about Sourcing:

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Definition: To favor one group, person, opinion, or thing over another in a way that is usually declared unfair.

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Bias

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Definition: documents based on primary sources and the work of others; sources that interpret, critique and analyze primary sources.

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Secondary Source

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Definition: information from a source that can be used for a specific purpose

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Evidence

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Definition: Someone who studies and writes about the past

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Historian

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To examine events that led up to or occurred during the creation of the source to see how that impacted its content - what was happening when the source was created.

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Contextualization

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Something historians use to learn about the past.

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Source

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What were the social, cultural, and political conditions at the time this document was created? How might these circumstances affect its content?

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Questions to be asked about Contextualization

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Definition: original source from the time period being studied - firsthand account

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Primary Source

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Definition: the reasons an event occurred and its effects.

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Cause and Effect