History is the analysis and interpretation of the human past using evidence to understand continuity and change over time. Historians use primary and secondary sources, including written documents, oral communication, buildings, artifacts, photographs, and paintings, to examine and reinterpret the past. Understanding history helps one comprehend the complexity of the present and future by investigating how and why societies developed.

9. • History is the analysis and
interpretation of the human
past that enables us to study
continuity and change over
time. It is an act of both
investigation and imagination
that seeks to explain how
people have change over time.

10. • Historians use all forms of
evidence to examine, interpret,
revisit, and reinterpret the
past.
• History include written
documents.

11. • History also include oral
communication and objects such
as;
a. buildings
b. artifacts
c. photographs
d. paintings.

13. • To understand the past and
present.
• We can investigate and
interpret why society
developed as it has.
• Determine what influences
have affected the past and
present and shape the future.

14. • Helps one to understand the
immense complexity of our
world
• Provides insight to help
cope with the problems and
possibilities of the present
and future.

15. -The future will grow out of the
present, as the present has
grown out of the past on what
we shall be and do as a nation
depends on what we are and do
now and that has resulted from
what we were and did in the past

16. • History shows us what it means to
be human
• History improves judgment
• History provide instructive
examples
• History makes us better thinkers
• History supports common cultural
understanding and dialogue
• History satisfies a need for identity

17. • Historians get their information
from two different kinds of
sources; the Primary and
Secondary.

18. PRIMARY SOURCES
• first hand sources.
• You-are-there insights into the
past.
• Also the most important tools a
historians has for developing
an understanding of an event.

19. Examples:
*Published documents
- books, newspaper, pamphlets,
advertisements, laws, etc.
*Unpublished documents
- letters, diaries, financial records
*Oral traditions and histories
- An interview with a miner describing
life in a coal mine
*Visual documents and artifacts
- A postcard mailed in 1900

20. Reading a Primary source
A.Place the source in its
historical context
B.Classifying the source
C.Understand the source
D.Evaluate the source as a
source of historical
information

21. SECONDARY SOURCES
• Is any item that was created
significantly after the events it
describes or is related to, or that
was created by someone who was
not directly involved in or an eye-
witness to the events
Examples:
- books, articles, magazine, internet,
journals

22. Three ways to use a
secondary sources;
a. As a collection of facts
b.As a source of background
material
c. As an interpretation

23. Using Interpretations;
a. Finding the interpretations
* In an essay
* In a book
b. The importance of the
interpretation
c. Historians often disagree on
interpretations

25. Building Bridges
By; Cherry Anne Lucas
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