Thinking Like a Historian Vocabulary (26-27)

Documents, images or artifacts that provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a historical topic.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Sources that analyze, assess or interpret a historical event. They generally use primary sources to do so.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

When someone sees or explains something in a way that favors one side, opinion, or group more than others.

• Objective Language

• Biased Perspective

• Unbiased Perspective

• Subjective Language

When someone looks at or explains something fairly by trying to see all sides equally and not let personal opinions affect their view.

• Objective Language

• Biased Perspective

• Unbiased Perspective

• Subjective Language

A specific point-of-view or understanding of an event.

• Credibility

• Perspective

• Historian

• Relevance

• Corroboration

A person who specializes in the study of history.

• Unbiased Perspective

• Perspective

• Historian

• Corroboration

Using multiple pieces of evidence to confirm or support a statement.

• Compelling Question

• Perspective

• Historian

• Corroboration

An absolute or relative position of a place on the Earth’s surface

• Region

• Movement

• Place

• Location

The unique physical and human characteristics that make one location different from other locations on Earth

• Region

• Movement

• Place

• Location

How humans depend on, change, and adapt to the environment

• Human-Environment Interaction

• Movement

• Place

• Location