Historical Thinking Vocabulary

The extent to which a message seems believable or trustworthy.

• Plausibility

• Evidence

• Perspective

• Analyze

Material presented to help find the truth about something.

• Evidence

• Perspective

• Analyze

• Plausibility

Prejudice in favor or against something.

• Bias

• Reliable

• Corroborate

• Verify

To support with evidence.

• Corroborate

• Reliable

• Verify

• Accuracy

Deserving trust, dependable.

• Reliable

• Verify

• Accurate

• Evidence

To prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony.

• Verify

• Bias

• Perspective

• Analyze

To examine critically

• Analyze

• Accuracy

• Historic

• Perspective

Anything that provides information on a given topic.

• Source

• Accuracy

• Historic

• Perspective

Condition or quality of being true, correct, or exact.

• Accuracy

• Verify

• Evidence

• Bias

Belonging to or occurring in the past.

• Historic

• Contemporary

• Perspective

• Plausibility