JUDAIC 386 Lecture 3: What is History?
16 Sep 2016
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Lecture three notes: what is history, a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events (webster, an interpretative analysis of past human events based on textual evidence (professor veidlinger) b. i. Different historians can interpret the same fact but come to two different conclusions. b. ii. We all have access to the same facts but the interpretation is the hard part. It is easy to come up with an opinion but informed opinions are more difficult because you need to analyze the facts, evidence, and other peoples" opinions. As a historian, you need evidence to back up your argument with proof of citations. b. iii. It is not historical to say that something occurred because of god"s will: how do historians know what we know? c. i. Novels that were written in that time c. ii. Newspapers - mass media with multiple viewpoints c. iii. Paintings they try to portray how people lived in that era. c. vi.
