An Introduction to Historical Thinking Skills PDF
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This document is an introduction to historical thinking skills. It presents key concepts like identifying turning points in history, analyzing continuity and change over time. It uses examples from Philippine history to illustrate these concepts.
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Image from https://celadonbooks.com/what-is-historical-fiction/ “How do we decide what and whose stories to tell?” Image from https://politixxx.today/the-life-and-times-of-ferdinand-marcos/ 5 R’s Test Christine Counsel, historian Remarkable (an important...
Image from https://celadonbooks.com/what-is-historical-fiction/ “How do we decide what and whose stories to tell?” Image from https://politixxx.today/the-life-and-times-of-ferdinand-marcos/ 5 R’s Test Christine Counsel, historian Remarkable (an important and notable event/person) Resulting in Change Revealing (tells a lot about a person’s time) Remembered (ways that it is remembered today) Resonant “ripple” (effect on future generation) Image from https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines Does this event have historical significance 50 years from now? “How do we know what we know?” Copy of the Credit Suisse forms filled out in March 1968 opening accounts of Ferdinand Marcos in the name of “William Saunders” and Imelda Marcos in the name of “Jane Ryan.” (From Belinda Aquino’s Politics of Plunder published 1999). Image from https://www.facebook.com/47261762634/photos/copy-of-the-credit-suisse-forms-filled-out-in-march-1968-opening-accounts-of-fer/10156402846982635/ Images from https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/laguna-copperplate-inscription-ancient-text-changed-perception-history-020630; https://r3.rappler.com/life-and-style/arts-and-culture/196968-asian-cultural-council-auction-2018-leon-gallery-andres-bonifacio-rare-letters Image from ttps://r3.rappler.com/life-and-style/arts-and-culture/196968-asian-cultural-council-auction-2018-leon- gallery-andres-bonifacio-rare-letters Images from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/literacy-in-history-writing-a-historical-diary-literacy-across-the-curriculum-11975904 Image from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2217845.History_of_the_Filipino_People Image from https://glutalipo.com/pages/about-us-1 Image from https://www.facebook.com/glutalipobenguet (a) Shows a part of Baguio city in the early 1900s (Source: Baguio City Hall); (b) shows a 2010 picture of the fully urbanized, relatively flat and hilly area (Quirino Hill) in Baguio city. (c) Shows a 2011 picture of Quirino Hill, one of the barangays in the northern part of the city. To its left is the Buyog watershed. Images from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229094398_City_Profile_Baguio From Dean C. Worcester’s The Philippines Past and Present (1914) Image from https://www.igorotage.com/p/ZlB8NmLEV Identify turning points — trace the evolution of a theme over a period of Continuity time and Re-periodize history — divide history Change into periods using continuity and change as an organizing principle (i.e., chronological vs. thematic) https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2019/09/30/why-are-there-so-many-filipino-nurses-in-california/ideas/essay/ Photo of Nursing class of 1929, St. Paul's Hospital, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines: Misses Yadao, Fink, Andaya, Abuan, Peralta and Tapaoan. Photo courtesy of University of Southern California Libraries/J. Tewell. “What are the causes that are hidden from the view?” What are the factors that affected or led to What was the impact How many factors something? (an event, or the effects of this contributed to this situation, action, cause? consequence? interaction) Was this an intended consequence, or unintended? Image from https://www.google.com/search?q=burnham+park&sxsrf=AOaemvIPZG5hOpk7wQorQqTkebIwHyQA1Q:1632845418940&source= Image from https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/470907704765256978/ Image from https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/ancient-visayan-raids-china-a00293-20200331-lfrm 1 2 3 Anachronism – Presentism - Procrustean- out-of-context / the present is “ism” – ahistorical read into the making facts fit past the theory Image from https://www.facebook.com/JOSE-Protasio-Realonda-Alonzo-RIZAL- Mercado-412619095608071/ Image from https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/Anachronism-Definition-and-Examples-of-Anachronism How Microsoft’s Calibri font could lead to this Prime Minister’s downfall Image from https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/12/how-microsofts-calibri-font-is-an-issue-for-pakistans-prime-minister.html https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2019/09/01/1948117/son-ml-desaparecido-still-seeking-justice-after-36-years Image from https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/940819094/photos-there-still-is-no-comfort-for-the-comfort-women-of-the-philippines STORYTELLER SCIENTIST LAWYER