Historical Thinking Skills (LST 471) by Linda Cargile

Evidence

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Definition: Evidence is interpreting reliable primary and secondary sources based off of inferences, as well as by asking questions, using context of the source, and by corroborating it with other sources.

Historical Significance

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Definition: Historical significance is the past events, people and developments based on lasting impacts of the changes they cause, how much they reveal on important issues, how meaningful they fit into historical narratives. and how it shapes history in a way we view it today.

Historical Perspective

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Definition: In order to understand historical perspectives, it is important that we know the difference between current periods and historical periods with diverse perspectives while avoiding presentism.

Ethical Dimension

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Continuity & Change

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Definition: Seeing what stays the same and what changes over time. Those changes can happen fast or slow, and people may see them as good or bad. We divide the history into time periods to help better understand it.

Cause & Consequence

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Definition: All events have multiple causes and multiple consequences, just because something happened does not mean that it has to happen that way again.