US history 1491-1800
Themes
Identity
Peopling
Work, exchange, and technology
Politics and power
Environment and geography
America in the world
Ideas, beliefs, and culture
Units
Unit 1 – 1491-1607
Unit 2 – 1607-1754
Unit 3 – 1754 – 1800
Unit 4 – 1800 – 1848
Unit 5 – 1844 – 1877
Unit 6 – 1865 – 1898
Unit 7 – 1890 –
Unit 8 –
Unit 9 –
Is History True?
Notes Responses
History is a complex process that combines historical facts and a historian’s interpretation to those facts
The Uses of History
Supplicants seek only reassuring confirmation as they prepare to act.
The usable past demanded of history consists of the data to flesh out a formula.
The demand made of the past is for a credible myth that will identify the forces of good and evil and inspire those who fight with slogan or fire on one side of the barricades
I completely agree with this statement. We do not have a first account of the subject and some error is acceptable.
Notes Responses
History is a complex process that combines historical facts and a historian’s interpretation to those facts
Oscar Handlin – Yes
The Uses of History
Supplicants seek only reassuring confirmation as they prepare to act.
The usable past demanded of history consists of the data to flesh out a formula.
The demand made of the past is for a credible myth that will identify the forces of good and evil and inspire those who fight with slogan or fire on one side of the barricades
Those who chase from one disaster to another lose sight of the long term trend; busy with the band aids, they have no time to treat the patient’s illness
The discipline of history has located them in time and space and had thereby helped them know themselves not as physicians or attorneys but as persons
The use of history lies in its capacity for advancing the approach to truth
Truth is absolute; it is as absolute as the world is real. It does not exist because individuals wish it to anymore than the world exists for
Identity
Peopling
Work, exchange, and technology
Politics and power
Environment and geography
America in the world
Ideas, beliefs, and culture
Units
Unit 1 – 1491-1607
Unit 2 – 1607-1754
Unit 3 – 1754 – 1800
Unit 4 – 1800 – 1848
Unit 5 – 1844 – 1877
Unit 6 – 1865 – 1898
Unit 7 – 1890 –
Unit 8 –
Unit 9 –
Is History True?
Notes Responses
History is a complex process that combines historical facts and a historian’s interpretation to those facts
The Uses of History
Supplicants seek only reassuring confirmation as they prepare to act.
The usable past demanded of history consists of the data to flesh out a formula.
The demand made of the past is for a credible myth that will identify the forces of good and evil and inspire those who fight with slogan or fire on one side of the barricades
I completely agree with this statement. We do not have a first account of the subject and some error is acceptable.
Notes Responses
History is a complex process that combines historical facts and a historian’s interpretation to those facts
Oscar Handlin – Yes
The Uses of History
Supplicants seek only reassuring confirmation as they prepare to act.
The usable past demanded of history consists of the data to flesh out a formula.
The demand made of the past is for a credible myth that will identify the forces of good and evil and inspire those who fight with slogan or fire on one side of the barricades
Those who chase from one disaster to another lose sight of the long term trend; busy with the band aids, they have no time to treat the patient’s illness
The discipline of history has located them in time and space and had thereby helped them know themselves not as physicians or attorneys but as persons
The use of history lies in its capacity for advancing the approach to truth
Truth is absolute; it is as absolute as the world is real. It does not exist because individuals wish it to anymore than the world exists for