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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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