Key Terms-Historical Skills & Research Methods

Record of important events and an explanation of their causes and significance

• History

• Primary Source

• Chronology

• Artifact

• Contemporary

The geographic, social, political, religious, intellectual, technological, and economic settings in which events take place

• Historical Context

• Historical Perspective

• Objectivity

• Periodization

• Oral History

Understanding a topic’s development over time and its influence or impact in history

• Historical Context

• Historical Perspective

• Chronology

• Credibility

• Contemporary

Written or created by someone either not present when the event took place or removed by time from the topic or event; based on primary sources, research and study; a work that interprets a historical event or topic

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Periodization

• Propaganda

• Credibility

Written, created, or present during the time period; directly connected to the topic or event by time or participation; provide first-hand evidence of historical events

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Propaganda

• Opinion

• Bias

Object that people in the past made or used, such as coins, pottery and tools

• Bias

• Opinion

• Artifact

• Contemporary

• Age/Era

Quality of being believable or trustworthy

• Artifact

• Chronology

• Bias

• Credibility

• Fact

Based on facts; not influenced by personal opinions, feelings, thoughts, or prejudice

• Bias

• Objectivity

• Chronology

• Opinion

• Contemporary

Limited point of view an author takes towards a subject by not accurately presenting all of the facts and information

• Bias

• Objectivity

• Credibility

• Chronology

• Periodization

Statement that can be verified or proven with evidence

• Credibility

• Contemporary

• Opinion

• Fact

• Propaganda