HIS3100- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)
16 Feb 2018
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Lec 1 : course introduction: canadians and their past. The time and place of the canadian past. The way that history is practiced has stopped being about primarily the nation state. Less on the sir john a macdonald and more about the daily experience of the average canadians. Learning about the nation state is a way of becoming a better informed citizen. Our flag has only been here since 1965. Indigenous people have been here much longer than 150 years. History = a synonym of the the past . From the greek historia , meaning inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation double meaning, confusion btw the profession and what happened. In other languages distinctions become harder ex in french. We unavoidably frame the past as a story. Humans are infinitely complex interpretations of this can create different opinions. Figuring the relationships between people and a moment. Public history = the employment of historians and historical method outside of academia .
