POLS 10202 Lecture 2: What is History
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Instead, it is a form of knowledge, a realm of inquiry about: a. i. 1. a. i. 2. a. i. 3. And often called upon to make arguments about the present: history"s functions, remembrance, mobilization, creating identity c. i. Origin stories and myths: citizenship and civic education, a form of literature, how is history practiced, archives and evidence, finding sources /artifacts left behind by the past b. i. Architecture: lord acton (1832 -1902, cosmopolitan, noble, catholic, positivism b. i. Its colonial empires were gone or disintegrated e. i. (saw the other history in varying ways) e. i. 1. No objective truth: facts are like sacks , can only stand up with person"s imagination and interpretation, historians select facts, muster them, put them in a certain order (temporal and/or chronological)
