List of historians

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/list-of-historians

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the core methodological principle?Critical analysis and interpretation of primary sources, supplemented by secondary scholarship
2. Who are historians?Historians are people who study the past, like detectives, gathering clues from old books, artifacts, and stories to tell us about how people lived.
3. What do historians do?They read old documents, look at artifacts, and talk to people to find evidence, then write stories that explain what happened and why.

Epistemology: The philosophical study of knowledge, including its nature, scope, and justification.
Historiography: The study of the writing of history, including the methods, theories, and biases of historians.
Primary Source Criticism: The process of evaluating the authenticity, accuracy, and bias of original historical documents and artifacts.