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History is our knowledge of the past and involves the study of its records or sources of information.

Why Study History?

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History is our knowledge of the past and involves the study of its records or sources of information. Why Study History?. Place names Personal names Language origins Values & Beliefs Institutions. kisiskâciwani-sîpiy , “swift flowing river,” is Saskatchewan Johannson “son of Johann” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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History is our knowledge of the past and involves the study of its records or sources of information.

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Why Study History?

• Place names• Personal

names• Language

origins• Values &

Beliefs• Institutions

• kisiskâciwani-sîpiy, “swift flowing river,” is Saskatchewan

• Johannson “son of Johann”

• “Politics” from Greek, “algebra” from Arabic, “restaurant” from French

• Ideas such as “democracy” from Greece

• The speaker in parliament

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Memory• Gives us a personal

past• History preserves

memories• Provide a shared

sense of identity• Is unreliable• May create a false

version of events (deliberate or unintentional)

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Historical Thinking• Never-ending debate about why something

happened, its results and its importance• Can’t know the past directly; only indirectly

through evidence (words, thoughts, records of people who experienced it)

• Lots we can’t know because no records or incomplete

• Need to understand the difference between facts & interpretations

• Need to be skeptical

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Archives• Archives are

collections of visual, written and oral records kept in special building or rooms

• May be used to research family history, land claims, property titles

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Museums• Are places where

objects of permanent interest are preserved, studied & exhibited

• May specialize in one aspect such as natural history, war, transportation

• Living museums allow visitors to travel back to the past and see what life was like

Western Development Museum, Saskatoon

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Primary Sources• Anything that existed

at the time being researched

• Examples: diary, photograph, map, census, letter, church records

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Secondary Sources• Anything that was

created or written after an event occurred

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Historians & History • sources may be incomplete, biased or

inaccurate• Sources need to be organized to make a

point• History combines description, explanation,

and interpretation but interpretation must be based on the evidence

• History is both a science and an art• Science because historians find evidence,

test it, and provide theories• Art because sources must tell a story

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His story or Her story?• Most history written by

men, about men & their activities

• Women only remembered if important in men’s lives such as Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc

• Women’s movement of 1960’s changed things

• Now looking at women’s work, marriage, childbirth & rearing (women’s place in society

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Social History• Most history written to

remember & praise famous people

• Used to make people proud of their tribe, religion, & country

• Used as way to prove one group superior over the other

• Social history is story of everyone & everything: crime, family, work, institutions

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Oral history• Gained by interviewing

people with personal knowledge/experience

• Another type of evidence

• Primary source of First Nations people of Canada

• Passed on from generation to generation

• Interview famous & common people

• Disadvantage: people forget, may not remember accurately, not tell truth

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Visual History• Objects & representations

such as building, clothing, pottery, paintings, cartoons, maps, photographs, posters,

• Reveal things about ideas and beliefs of people who created them

• Painting often done to make a point, flatter the subject

• How reliable is the source of information? Why was it created?

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How reliable is this for 2010 fashion?

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1930’s 1950’s

1980’s

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Visual history