Key Terms
- chronological approach
- an approach to history that follows a timeline from ancient to modern
- global citizen
- a person who sees themselves as responsible to a world community rather than only a national one
- great man theory
- the view that it is enough to study the deeds and impact of important leaders to paint an accurate picture of the past
- historical empathy
- the ability to see the past on its own terms, without judgment or the imposition of our own modern-day attitudes
- historiography
- the study of how historians have already interpreted the past
- iconography
- the use of images and symbols in art
- intellectual history
- the history of ideas, which looks at the philosophies that drive people to make certain choices
- primary cause
- the most immediate reason an event occurred
- primary source
- a document, object, or other source material from the time period under study
- progressive history
- a school of thought that views history as a straight line to a specific and more democratic destination
- revisionism
- the process of altering our interpretation of historical events by adding new elements and perspectives
- rhetoric
- the way words are used and put together in speaking or writing
- secondary source
- a document, object, or other source material written or created after the time period under study
- social constructs
- ideas such as class and gender created and accepted by the people in a society that influence the way they think and behave
- social history
- a field of history that looks at all classes and categories of people, not just elites