HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Jargon
5 Dec 2013
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First tutorials will meet on tuesday, september 10. Anyone can research, write and publish historical work without specialized training. Standards of achievement can be flexible and intuitive and methodology is. The historical mode is one of the most common ways through which we attept based on common sense to understand the world we live in. We all engage in forms of historical reconstruction. Even the simpliest rules of evidence and argument can be difficult to apply in specific situations, especially if the researcher is operating intuitively. Many readers fail to distinguish between history as everything thats happened before present moment and history as the record of the unfolding of some events in the past. (past can never be recovered) All we can do is attempt to recreate and analyze discrete parts of the past, refracted through the historians prism (only this history can be studied and investigated)
