Historians

and in a range of learners. Bain (2012), based on Mojes 's findings, claims that there are four identified interconnected skills of funds of knowledge: semantic, disciplinary, discursive, and pragmatic knowledge. Historians read, interpret, and analyze to create narratives, explanations, or arguments. According to Bain (2012), the traditional strategies of sourcing, contextualizing, or corroborating do not fully capture the reading support that students need to understand

He warns his reader to not just focus on one historian, but on multiple, and gather an overall understanding of the facts. Additionally, Stearns makes claims that history helps us understand people, societies, and change, and it provides identity, good citizenship, and moral understanding of the world

past cultures and peoples and wish to condemn them. However, historians have the hard task of staying unbiased in what they read and write about. Many historians fail in this endeavor, whether through an abject hatred of religion, or a love of their own religion. It proves challenging viewing a culture that struggled with the boundaries on whether or not to keep the Church and State separate without thinking of modern times. But, the historian overlooks that opinion in the back of their head to give

Throughout academia, the questions of “why does history matter?”, and “what is the importance of studying history” arise very often by teachers, parents, and peers. The questions may seem exceedingly short and simple but they cannot be answered with simple answers. The complexity and variability of each answer has numerous factors such as background, environment, personal preferences, political alignment, and social status, that must be looked at before being able to fully understand the question

A People’s History Versus A Patriot’s History Public consensus, similar to politics, varies greatly when it comes to American history, especially as it pertains to the classroom. Views about the content and historical interpretation included in history texts have reached a heightened polarization in recent years. This can be seen in the vast differences between the diatribes of Howard Zinn’s, A People’s History of the United States, and Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen’s, A Patriot’s History

“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged.” ― Howard Zinn, A People 's History of the United States Zinn once remarked, “Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some

Carpenter 1 Jacob Carpenter Mr. Ledo World History 12 November 2015 Persuasive Paper Within the past year, ISIS has been willfully destroying historical sites and artifacts where they have taken control over in the middle east. The preservation of historical sites and artifacts is important. Preserving historical sites plays a big cultural role. Also, preserving historical sites is environmentally friendly. History can tell us about the past, history is said to repeat itself. Preserving

When interpreting history, there are multiple points of view that a person can take. A subjective point of view is a personal view or opinion. The objective point of view gives only the facts and does not invoke more than can be inferred from the story’s dialogue. In the book A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn chooses to write a subjective history, which differs from the objective point of view given in the Amsco text. Zinn’s decision to write a subjective history gives people a

History is often portrayed as a two-sided story, the winners, and the losers, and a vast majority of the time these same winners are the ones that write the history, however, history is more complicated than that. Michel-Rolph Trouillot said, “History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur." This quote resonates with a lot of people due to unequal representation in the historical narrative. When reading history we usually look for something that was written by someone with

As seen in Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Deborah Lacks is telling her brothers that when they go back into history, that they should not approach it “with a hate attitude.” (Skloot), but with an unbiased mind for the opinions of then differed from current ones. Deborah’s brothers are being realistic while Deborah herself is being too idealistic in regards to how she and her brothers view the past. I do not think it is possible to approach history from an objective point