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From: Holden Rohrer
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:56:18 -0400
Subject: listened to the course overview
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+What is history?
+- History controls "our frames of reference, our identities, and our
+ aspirations," (James Baldwin), so history tells us about how we got
+ here.
+- Historians both determine facts as absolute provable events and build
+ narratives and explanations from those facts through analysis.
+ - Documents => Facts. A speech, a physical artifact, affidavit.
+ - Secondary source => analysis. Text book or paper is statements
+ that infer or induce ideas.
+- Myths
+ - We study history so we won't repeat our mistakes.
+ - History doesn't repeat itself.
+ - We study history so we can predict the future
+ - History lets us understand the present but we can't predict
+ the future.
+ - We study history to learn about American exceptionalism
+ - Historian researchers do not want to instill patriotism; they
+ want you to think critically about what's happening now.
+
+- Studying history develops
+ - understanding of the present
+ - critically think about arguments, trends, patterns, sources
+ - being politically informed
+ - and how to act in modern politics.
+
+Themes:
+- Conflict over identity and freedom
+ - Individual identity
+ - National (American)
+ - Racial (white supremacy)
+ - How has the idea of freedom changed over time?
+ - Civil rights
+
+How to succeed
+- Read actively
+ - and ask questions
+ - and ask questions about the class
+- Note-taking (engage with course materials)
+ - What happened?
+ - Why did it happen?
+ - Importance
+ - Chronology matters, but dates won't be quizzed. Timelines and
+ causality are better.
+- Studying
+ - "Review, recite, and reflect."
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