spotting the differences: understanding historical approaches fall 2012
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Spotting the Differences: Understanding Historical
Approaches
Fall 2012
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What is a Historical Approach?
An organizing framework that shapes the questions you ask, the sources you read, and the “glasses” you use to interpret that material
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What is a Historical Approach?
An organizing framework that shapes the questions you ask, the sources you read, and the “glasses” you use to interpret that material
A set of principles or assumptions you use to analyze a body of evidence
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What is a Historical Approach?
An organizing framework that shapes the questions you ask, the sources you read, and the “glasses” you use to interpret that material
A set of principles or assumptions you use to analyze a body of evidence
A widely-embraced pattern of thought
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What is a Historical Approach?
An organizing framework that shapes the questions you ask, the sources you read, and the “glasses” you use to interpret that material
A set of principles or assumptions you use to analyze a body of evidence
A widely-embraced pattern of thought The way that you (the viewer) make sense of
your subject (the viewed) (a postmodern definition)
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Example: Gender History
This includes the study of how men and women define their roles in society and how they construct gender roles
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Example: Gender History
This includes the study of how men and women define their roles in society and how they construct gender roles
Questions often revolve around definitions of masculinity and femininity
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Example: Gender History
This includes the study of how men and women define their roles in society and how they construct gender roles
Questions often revolve around definitions of masculinity and femininity
Usually relies on a “bottom up” perspective
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Example: Gender History
This includes the study of how men and women define their roles in society and how they construct gender roles
Questions often revolve around definitions of masculinity and femininity
Usually relies on a “bottom up” perspective Gender is “a socially constructed series of
behaviors that code one as male or female, but that vary across time and space in such a way as to reveal their constructed nature” (Downs, Writing Gender History, 3)
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Why Do These Approaches Matter?
Many different approaches, when considered together, bring us closer to the “truth” Creates DIVERSITY
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Why Do These Approaches Matter?
Many different approaches, when considered together, bring us closer to the “truth” Creates DIVERSITY
Help shape the questions you believe the documents can answer
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Why Do These Approaches Matter?
Many different approaches, when considered together, bring us closer to the “truth” Creates DIVERSITY
Help shape the questions you believe the documents can answer
Help you make sense of a myriad of documents
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Why Do These Approaches Matter?
Many different approaches, when considered together, bring us closer to the “truth” Creates DIVERSITY
Help shape the questions you believe the documents can answer
Help you make sense of a myriad of documents Help historians understand where other
historians are coming from and, consequently, the strengths and limitations of the analysis
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Challenges of Interpretation
The “ready-made analysis” trap
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Challenges of Interpretation
The “ready-made analysis” trap The “stubborn and narrow minded” trap
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Challenges of Interpretation
The “ready-made analysis” trap The “stubborn and narrow minded” trap The “boring” trap
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Challenges of Interpretation
The “ready-made analysis” trap The “stubborn and narrow minded” trap The “boring” trap The “right think” trap
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Challenges of Interpretation
The “ready-made analysis” trap The “stubborn and narrow minded” trap The “boring” trap The “right think” trap The “tunnel vision” trap