The Major Problems of Historical Research

She carries the audience through her argument in a logical sequence. First, she makes her claim that student do not know history and explains her reasons (250). She then elaborates on what history students are taught and what exactly is wrong with the methods by which they learn (251). After this, she explains the job of a historian to the reader – how historians confront primary sources to “make some sense of what once happened” (252). To end the article, Simon describes how students can better learn history through exploring primary sources (253). This structuring and organization helps the reader to understand and to believe Simon’s

As the hostility grows between both parties, historians must consider the factual disposition of their writings. Empiricist J.B. Bury stated that history is a “science, nothing more, nothing less”. The accurate connotations that science brings highlights the academics arguments. Although not completely a science, history integrates different forms of science, such as geology, in order to reach the objective truth (Evans). It is the assertion of history as a science to which academics believe their history is presented. To which, academic’s believe their rival’s representation of history is inaccurate, and therefore invalid. Academic historians insistence to their own superiority may contend to their tension between

I have to let the readers know how I stumbled upon this topic to introduce where I get my ideas from. It all started in the archive located on the second floor of the library in a dark corner behind a clear glass doors at the Hunter College. I have been attending Hunter College for four years and never have I stumbled on such an amazing place full of live history. I say live history because all the documents and books that are held in the archive are all preserved originals, which fascinated me. Thinking how people who lived more than century ago wrote and read the same things I’m writing and reading about excited me to my very soul. Archive research though fascinating is not an easy task that can be done in within fifteen minutes like how researches are done these days using convenient technologies at hand.

All historians have areas of interest that they choose to study. This is what you will be doing in your final paper! First, however, you must decide what will be the focus of your paper.

This video is about a 5th-grade social studies teacher named Miss Kelsey’s personal experience with the method of inquiry and her reason on why the inquiry method was a great way to help her students learn Canadian history. In the video, Miss Kelsey demonstrates the positive effects of historical inquiry in her 5th-grade class by describing how it not only sparked the interests of her students, but also herself and not only that but both her and her students learned something. Not mention the fact that Miss Kelsey had also helped spark the interests of her students even more by creating a scenario where they had to present the information that each of her students found in their assigned important figures to her where she will decide which

This paper will discuss how certain factors should be analyzed for both written and visual sources in consideration of use as a historical work. It will address the following major points when contemplating using a particular source while researching a topic. When to analyzing a written or visual document, a historian must analyze the author of the document. Historians must also realize that authors make certain choices when creating either visual or written sources, and this serves as another point of analysis. The general public may see written documents or visual sources (photographs in particular) as free of bias, but these documents often convey a particular point of view.

Discuss the reliability of source to a historian studying the experiences of Australians at World War I during the Gallipoli campaign

In this paper, I will be outlining the costs and benefits of social and technological fixes, and then I will be assessing the use of social and technological fixes of air pollution through the use of automobiles.

The way in which I approached my research was to begin writing notes on all the information I already knew about each area. I then concentrated on the areas I had little or no knowledge about; I began to

I wasn't sure what do my research on. I was first interested in military history and I wanted to do Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee. I asked my cousin who would be easier to do my research on, Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee. She said I should do it on the Renaissance because she took European history in high school and she knows a lot about it. I started research at school when my teacher came up to me and asked what I’m doing. I told him about the Renaissance and he responded by saying the Renaissance is a big category and I should choose something specific from that time period. Finally, I decided to research on the Leonardo Da Vinci because I had some background knowledge on him and my cousin could help me.

Contextual changes make is complex to decide the significance of a rediscovery. A change in context can lead to renewed perception, thus a new significance in the discoverers world. This complexity is demonstrated in ‘Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History’, which portrays the complicated debate over the

For my investigation, I chose to evaluate the significance of Boudicca and her impact on British history. This was topic that really interested me as I had seen the statue of her in London and thought her story was fascinating. All I knew about her was that was she was an ancient Celtic Queen who opposed the occupying forces of Rome then poisoned herself so that she couldn’t be held prisoner. However, there was an abundance of information that available for me to use so I could find out more about my chosen personality. There were many advantages to choosing Boudicca to investigate, however, I had to work around the issue of reliability within many of the sources. Despite that, this topic proved to be a good choice for me.

As I began the process into writing my research paper on the influence that the NAACo had on the civil rights movement and towards racial equality, I was able to comprehend the skills and knowledge needed in order to complete it. This process, which involves the creation of a research question, finding sources, evaluating them, and completing an analysis has allowed me to gain an understanding of the limitations and challenges facing the historian. I was also able to obtain certain information and skills that will become beneficial for me in further research paper, as well as writing overall. Before this paper I had never used databases or analyzed sources so extensively; which eventually led to many successes and limitations while writing.

This article is especially useful in addressing the issues of memory at the heart of the Australian history wars as it examines in detail the effect of the representation of memories, how they are framed, and in which formats they are reported, upon how they are received by an audience and by academia. The article addresses the factor that the relevance and validity of memories can be seen as discredited by academia because, in this case, they have not been sourced from written evidence by the party presenting the memory and therefore decrease their value from an empirical standpoint. The framing of a narrative is also especially important as in this article, the name under which evidence is presented has become key not only to how it is received but

The methods that have been used to gain information in order provide sufficient information that is relevant to the questions was received through use of websites, history textbooks, quotations from witnesses, visual sources (photographs, paintings, graphs, drawings, etc.). These sources provided valid material that fit into the criteria and helped to answer the questions in a relevant and reasonable