HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wallace Stegner, Carl L. Becker, The Human Experience
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David thelen: the presence of the past. Can be through traditions, family recipes, going to museums, etc. Carl becker, every man is his own historian, . Wallace stegner, history is a pontoon bridge, : comprised of basic facts and then the details can be open to interpretations, we construct what happened in our past for our own benefit and then move on. Herodotus was the founder of modern history : wrote an impartial history of the war between the greeks and. Discipline of humanities: the human experience, utilizes documents to find out about the past. Primary: first hand accounts> journals, notes, etc. Secondary: outside sources like textbooks: history of a&m. Morrill land grant act of 1862: land for schools to provide a liberal and practical education, the humanities were to be the basis to develop and inform, principles of historical thinking students. Causation: one thing leading to another; cause and effect.
