Table of Contents
- 1 What does it mean when you say that a historical account is valid?
- 2 How important for historians to identify the sources that they are using in writing history?
- 3 What is the importance of historical sources?
- 4 How do you answer a history source question?
- 5 What do you understand by source of history?
What does it mean when you say that a historical account is valid?
Historical validity is based in the historian’s interpretation of extant written texts through the application of tools and methods developed by professional historians and by interpreting the texts in relation to other texts. Therefore, historians speak of historical validity rather than historical truth.
How important for historians to identify the sources that they are using in writing history?
Primary sources are valuable to historians because they give insight into the ways in which historical figures understood or internalized what they experienced, their place or significance in history, and give historians an understanding of historical figures’ opinions. Primary sources are clues from the past.
Why is there a need to check the authenticity and credibility of historical texts?
It is very important to evaluate the sources which is available and it is the responsibility of historians to find out the relevance. History is mother of all disciplines. So credibility is essential.
What is the importance of historical sources?
Why is it important to know about historical sources? Historical sources give us an in-depth understanding of things that have happened in the past from the point of view of the people who lived through them. They’re usually but not always primary sources.
How do you answer a history source question?
Summary
- State how reliable you might expect a source of this type to be.
- Avoid the word biased.
- State the specific purpose of the source.
- Include facts about the author, audience, or time period.
- Say what is exaggerated or left out and link back to your question.
Which question might a historian ask to investigate what happened?
The five questions historians ask to investigate the past are?, what, where, when, and why.
What do you understand by source of history?
= The sources that help us to obtain information about the past and the events that occurred in the past are called sources of history.