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History as an Area of Knowledge
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1.Why does your past matter?2.How good is your memory? How reliable is
it?3.You take photos, you keep a diary; what do
you include, what do you omit?4.Would you be more inclined to trust an
autobiography or a biography of the same individual written by a historian?
5.To what extent do you think people learn from their mistakes, and to what extent do you think they keep making the same mistakes?
Your History
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Two answers
What is History?
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History is the study of ‘present traces’ of the past.
Evidence
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1. The publication of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Speicies in 1859;
2. The birth of Bill Gates in 1955;3. The deposition of Muamar Gadaffi in 2011;4. England’s World Cup victory in 1966;5. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001;6. Bingu Mutharika becoming President of Malawi in 2005;7. The publication of US diplomatic despatches by Wikileaks in
2011.
Significance
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Criteria?
Significance
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“A page of history is worth a volume of logic”Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1841-1935
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past”William Faulkner, 1897-1962
“Those who don’t study the past are condemned to repeat it”
George Santayana, 1863-1952
Why Study History?
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1) It has created our reality and all the world’s identities.
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“Who controls the
2) It is a defence against lies, propaganda and myth – ‘ignorance is strength’.
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3) It tells us what to expect from human nature.