Why Study History?

A human made object

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Evidence

• Artifact

A way of looking at something, may be shaped by many things, such as a person's age, religion, job or political views.

• Point of View

• Objectivity

• Bias

• Artifact

The sequence of events in time.

• Period

• Era

• Chronology

• Calendar

Information that can be used to prove a statement or support a conclusion.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Evidence

• Arguments

A document or other record of past events created by people who were present at the time.

• Secondary Source

• Primary Source

• Evidence

• Artifact

Anything that might change a person's observations. It can make a source less trustworthy.

• Bias

• Objectivity

• Point of View

• Perspective

Information written after the time period, perhaps by an expert or historian.

• Secondary Source

• Primary Source

• Artifact

• Encyclopedia

A long and distinct period of history with a particular feature or characteristic.

• Timeframe

• Decade

• Century

• Era

Looking where information came from in order to understand it.

• Sourcing

• Purposing

• Creating

• Documenting

Locating a source in terms of time and place.

• Corroboration

• Collaboration

• Contextualization

• Sourcing