[HTST 412] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (26 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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A historians job is not to judge, but to explain. End of 19th century - ranke - wants only to show what actually happened . Much more theory driven historians - like feminist or post-colonial theory. In order to understand, one must empathize. Do not take what is presented as a fact at face value. Facts are open to interpretation or revision. Do not present yourself as certain, or blame someone else. Inductive method - ideal for this class. 1956 khrushchev delivers a speech in a bid for the leadership. Says, after the invasion, stalin thought all was lost and ceased all military and political activity until he was pulled back into action . Primary source - a source, created in close temporal proximity to the subject of study, that in some way offers eyewitness testimony of the event or person in question. Diaries, letters, memoirs, of cial documents, photographs, maps, lm/movies, sound recordings, landscape, newspaper.
