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Understanding Historiography: Importance and Applications

Explore the significance of historiography, the study of how history is written and its various perspectives and biases. Discover how historical information gains meaning and relevance. Delve into the dominant schools of historiography, including consensus and conflict, and their central arguments. This text emphasizes the conflict school, particularly Eric Foner's argument on freedom and its development. Gain insight into various examples and learn how to organize your historical knowledge effectively.

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Understanding Historiography: Importance and Applications

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  1. Essential Question: Why is historiography important and how can it be used?

  2. Historiography- the study of how history is written & its various perspectives / biases

  3. Central idea: Facts are integral to the study of history, but equally important is the meaning we give historical information

  4. Dominant Schools of Historiography Consensus or traditional- Argues that change results from consensus among various groups in society. Division & class interest, etc. exist but are not central to the process of change.

  5. Conflict or revisionist- Opposite view It views conflict among groups, classes, race, and gender, etc. as central to the process of change. Foner’s central argument is connected to this school

  6. This textbook emphasizes the Conflict School . Eric Foner’s Central argument: Freedom/liberty in its many forms developed from the colonial period to the Reconstruction era , however many groups were denied freedom.

  7. 2 Examples Consensus School Conflict School

  8. The acronym below provides a good way to organize your thoughts and content knowledge, reading, notes, and responses to historical questions: Political Economic R eligious Military/ diplomatic S ocial

  9. Example of Historiographical Schools Constitutional Marxist / Conflict Gender Eurocentric Environmental Determinism Social Political Economic Diplomatic Military

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