Historiography and the archive
HE · 50 minutes · Read sources critically.
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Our learning goal
Read sources critically.
Your turn: Choose one thing you would like to understand by the end.
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- Today: Historiography and the archive. Our goal: Read sources critically.
- Take one idea at a time. Pause after each sentence; ask for repetition whenever you need it.
- Every source has provenance, purpose and audience. Primary is not synonymous with true. Historiography studies how interpretations shift with the historian's present — Whig, Marxist, Annales, subaltern, revisionist. Archives are shaped by what power chose to keep.
- Together: choose one example from the explanation and show how it works. What do you notice?
- Your turn: Compare two historians' accounts of one event and explain the divergence.
- Reflect: what made sense, and what would you like explained differently?
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