4READPHILHIS Lecture : History_and_Historical_Sources

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Content adapted from and a revision of the historical method presentation of dr. ma. Department of historym de la salle university manila. This lesson will examine the notion of history in terms of its" meaning, relevance and perspectives. Also to be discussed are the sources of history- the primary and secondary. Sources like newspapers, eye witness accounts, government reports, diaries, memoirs, speeches, books and the like will be delved closely with the internal and external criticism to determine the validity and authenticity of such documents. History consists of description and narration of past actuality integrated through critical inquiry through for the whole truth (gottschalk, 1950). Further, history studies the past and the legacies of the past in the present. Far from being a "dead" subject, it connects things through time and encourages its students to take a long view of such connections (corfield, n. d. ).

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