For our class, the definition of historiography is

• the history of the world

• a history of a history

• analysis of historical events and sources

• world history, not United States history.

All of the following are historical fallacies EXCEPT

• Presentism

• Apples to Oranges

• Progress of History

• History Repeats Itself

What is sidebar history?

• Failing to properly validate the sources uses in historical writing

• Only using secondary sources for research

• Leaving certain groups of people out of history altogether

• Leaving certain groups out of the main historical narrative and putting them in the "side" of textbooks or other sources as a sidebar.

Do you agree with this depiction of both success and history? Why or why not?

Which of the following is a primary source?

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Which of the following is an example of a secondary source?

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What is the difference between scholarly history and popular history?

• Scholarly history is critically reviewed by experts and other historians before publication.

• Scholarly historians never appear on television or web series while popular historians often do.

• Scholarly historians never work on popular history projects like websites or movies and tv shows.

• Popular history is always inaccurate and biased while scholarly history is neither.

It is important to know the following when evaluating secondary sources

• The creator, the date of publication, bias and prejudice, the author's POV

• The author's POV, the publisher, the creator, the time stamp of any online resources (if any)

• The creator, the context, the argument, bias and prejudice

• Bias and prejudice, the creator, the argument, the author's POV.

What is Boolean Logic?

• All the sources for World History

• The way we "talk" to a search engine and give it instructions for how to use the search terms we type in.

• A computer code written by historians to catalog secondary and primary sources.

• How we tell the difference between scholarly and popular history

Of the 10 values we talked about at the beginning of the year, which three do you think are the most important for society to function best?

• Justice

• Democracy

• Diversity

• Equality

• Stability