How does a historian work?

• History
• Secondary Education
• Age 13

How Does a Historian Work?

Making historical inferences

check the evidence

Compare it to existing sources

Should be trustworthy

look at secondary sources

express different points of views

The inference the historian make is...
(Choose the best answer)

1. Their personal opinion about the past
2. their explanation from their experience
3. an explanation that is based on the evidence they have
4. an explanation based on secondary sources

Looking at history

• Historians gather artifacts and data and then write what they learned
  
  • You can find such writings in a scholarly journal or magazine.

What does 'scholarly' mean?

1. related to school
2. concerned with school projects
3. concerned with academic learning or research
4. concerned with university education

Experts in the field will review the sources and write their own articles. They evaluate how the historian has interpreted the facts. This study of historical interpretations is called...

1. historiology
2. historical accounts
3. history
4. historiography

Historians must keep accurate notes and be careful that inferences are reasonable

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