Lesson #4: Reliability
How do historians determine if a source is reliable?
Lesson #1: What is History?
How do historians determine what happened in the past?
Lesson #3: Corroboration
How and why do historians corroborate their sources?
Lesson #2: Sources
What sources do historians use to learn about the past?
Lessons & Resources
Lesson #6: Arguments
How do historians construct arguments?
Unit #1: Historical Thinking
explore Geography
Lesson #5: Context
What is context? How do historians use it to understand and write about the past?
history
History is an account of the past constructed from evidence. This account of the past differs based on one’s perspective.
source
A person, place, or thing from which something comes; in history sources are usually documents written by people from the past but could also be objects from the past
Mr. Christopher Patten
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
evidence
Something that gives proof of or a reason to believe something
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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