RPH Lesson 2 Checkpoint

A historian is primarily responsible for producing historical knowledge through continuous research and rethinking history.

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Bias and subjectivity are factors that can influence a historian's selection of sources and methodologies.

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Anyone with an interest in the past and some reading in history can be considered a historian.

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Historians’ interpretations are completely free from their personal and cultural contexts.

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Absolute historical truth is impossible to achieve because historians only access representations of the past through sources.

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Historians do not need to corroborate oral accounts with written sources if they consider them reliable.

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Historians are essential for converting historical sources into meaningful historical knowledge.

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The historian's claims must be peer-reviewed and accepted by other historians to be recognized as historical knowledge.

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Historical methodology involves techniques for resolving conflicts in evidence and validating eyewitness accounts.

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Students of history and historians both contribute equally to the production of historical knowledge.

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