This explains the relevance the study of history

1. THE MEANING AND
RELEVANCE OF HISTORY

2. Hi Jerry!
Hello
Ma’am Bella!

3. What are you
doing?
I have to write an obituary
for a dear friend of mine who
died.

4. Who died?

5. Oh no! I love History. He was such an
interesting fellow, though many
people didn’t truly understand what
he was all about. People were always
mistaking him for his brother who
they call Past but History, he was so
much more than past. He was all
about connecting big ideas and when
you spent time with History you felt
like you were a better person because
of what you learned from him.

6. You want to hear what other people say
about him? He had many critics. And
some often refer to him as boring but
his true friends, those who knew him
well say he is very interesting,
enjoyable and helpful.

7. History knew he was not perfect. Just like any
hero, he had his flaws, which is that, he did not
learn from his mistakes and often repeated
them. However, he acknowledged this flaw and
encouraged his friends to learn from both his
successes and his failures. Doctors could not
determine History’s cause of death but his
friends’ suspect he died of a broken heart
because he felt unappreciated. In lieu of flowers,
History’s family is asking you to honor him by
learning or remembering the skills and lessons
from his life.

8. Oh Jerry, I think I am going to
cry.That was beautiful!
One thing is for sure.There
would never be another quite
like History.

9. The End

10.  Meaning of History
 Sources of History
 General Kinds of Historical Sources
 Historical Criticism
 Colonial Historiography
 Philippine Historiography AfterWorldWar II
 Characteristics of Contemporary Philippine
Historiography

11.  “In order to know the destiny of
the people, it is necessary to open
the book of its past.”
- Jose Rizal (The Philippines A
Century Hence)

12.  study of past events presented in chronological
order and with explanation

14.  Historians - Individuals who write about history
 Historiography - the practice of historical writing

15. Lesson
Navigator

16. a. Documents

17. b. Archaeological Records
Fossils
artifacts

18. c. Oral andVideo Accounts

19.  Primary Sources
“Are original documents and contemporary
accounts of an event written by either someone
who experienced the event or someone who
witnessed the event”

20. Determining Primary Sources:
1. When and where was it created?
2. Who created it?
3. For what purpose was it produced?

21. 1. First-person accounts
Letters
Diaries
Autobiographies
Oral histories
Literature
Polemical writings

22. 2. Organizational
Statistics
Government Reports
Legislative documents
Court Records
Transaction of agencies/associations
Annual and financial reports
Reports of NGOs

23. 3.Visual Material
Photographs
Posters
Advertisement
Illustrations
Cartoons
Motion pictures/TV

24. 4. Place
Maps & Atlases
Census information
(population)
City directories
Road Sign

25. 5. Cultural
Novels
Poems
Cultural Dance
Archives

26.  Secondary Sources
“Sources produced by an author who used primary
sources to produce the material”

27. Examples of Secondary Sources:
Textbooks
Commentaries
Journals
Editorials in newspaper

28.  External Criticism
- is the practice of the ff:
a.Verifying the authenticity of evidence by
examining its physical characteristics.
b. Consistency with the historical characteristic of
the time when it was produced.
c. Materials used creating the evidence.

29.  Internal Criticism
- examination of truthfulness of the evidence.
a. Content of the evidence.
b. Author’s context, background and sources.
c.To whom it was produced.
d. Agenda behind its creation.

30.  Historians attempt to understand the past
 Historians attempt to understand the past based
on evidence
 Historical evidence that comes directly from
society is called primary source.
 Historians interpret the primary source to
decide what they actually tell us about the past

31.  Interpretation:The process of deciding on
the meaning of a historical source
 Based on these interpretations, historians
attempt to create a narrative (a story)about
what happened in the past
 Historical narratives and interpretations are
known as secondary sources.

32. Primary
Sources
(D,AR,OV)
Historians
Historiography
External Criticism
Internal Criticism
Secondary
Sources

33. 1. What are the benefits of using primary sources?
2. Why do you think most history textbooks are secondary
sources?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of accessing
online primary sources?
4. What are the challenges of understanding our country’s past
mindful of the problems that characterize the writing of our
national history?
Bring it on!