HIST 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Gabriel Prosser, Felix Von Luckner, Populism
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The art of historical detection: developments in american identity. History 201 is designed to introduce non-history majors to the methodologies & the complexities of history as a practice via sets of case studies. By exploring each case study, students will be familiar with the wide variety of evidence historians use to reach conclusions about the past, and will have engaged in the. Detective work of history, that is the process of reasoning about that evidence to reach conclusions about historical questions. Each case study will connect to the larger theme of american national identity, especially the values of liberty, equality, individualism, democracy, & the rule of law under a constitution. Michael j. salevouris with conal furay the uses of history . Samuel huntington the american creed and national identity . Case study i: the art of historical detection. How did the power of historical memory undermine the communist government in the.
