APWH Skills

This skill involves your ability to identify, compare, and evaluate multiple perspectives on a given historical event so you can make conclusions about that event. This skill also requires the ability to describe, compare, and assess several historical developments within one society, between different cultures, and in diverse chronological and geographical contexts. Comparisons can also be made across different time periods and geographical locations, and between contrasting historical events within the same time period or geographical

• Comparison

• Contextualization

• Causation

• Periodization

With this skill you can make meaningful and persuasive historical connections between one historical issue and other historical issue and similar developments in a different historical context, geographical area, or era, including the present. You can also connect different course themes or approaches to history (e.g., political, social, or cultural) for a given historical issue. Finally, you can use views from an entirely different discipline like economics, art history or anthropology, to better understand a particular historical point.

• Comparison

• Contextualization

• Synthesis

• Argumentation

This skill relates your ability to connect historical events and processes to particular circumstances of time and place, including broader regional, national, or global activities. You will need to determine past events or developments within the wider context in which they occurred and then draw conclusions about their significance.

• comparison

• contextualization

• periodization

• argumentation

This skill relates to your ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate the relationships among historical causes and effects. You also must tell the difference between those that are long-term and proximate. You should also know the difference between causation and correlation to master this skill.

• Causation

• Synthesis

• Argumentation

• Patterns of continuity and change over time

This is your ability to recognize, analyze, and assess the dynamics of continuity and change over periods of time of different lengths, as well as your ability to relate these patterns to a broader historical processes or themes.

• Patterns of continuity and change over time

• periodization

• synthesis

• comparison

This is your ability to describe, analyze, and evaluate different ways that history is divided into periods. Various models are often debated among historians, and the choice of specific turning points or starting and ending dates might garner a higher value to one region or group than to another.

• Comparison

• Contextualization

• Syntheisis

• periodization

This involves your ability to create and support an opinion using relevant historical evidence. This includes identifying and framing a question about the past and then coming up with a claim or argument about that question, usually in the form of a thesis.

• causation

• argumentation

• synthesis

• periodozation