historiography

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history
of the
americas
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historiography
Conal Furay and Michael J. Salevouris define
"historiography" as "the study of the way
history has been and is written --the history of
historical writing... When you study
'historiography' you do not study the events of
the past directly, you study the changing
interpretations of those events in the works of
individual historians."
The Methods and Skills of History A Practical
Guide, 1988, p. 223
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historiography
Critical historiography in the 1960s focused, for
example, on the exclusion of the roles of women,
minorities, and labor from written histories of
the US. According to these historiographers,
because historians in the 1930s and 1940s were
themselves products of their times, their models
of who was "important" to history reflected the
cultural attitudes of that period, i.e. a bias
towards well-connected white males. Many
historians from that point onward devoted
themselves to what they saw as more accurate
representations of the past, casting a light on
those who had been previously disregarded as
non-noteworthy.
critical
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herbert
Comparative nature of United States colonial
history The History of the Americas
concept Universal American History, that is the
history of the Americas from the North pole to
the South pole from Columbus to Now.
bolton
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influences
Frederick Jackson Turner Frontier
Theory American Exceptionalism Vitality Introduc
ed in the 1890s End of Frontier New Stage in
American Life
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Beginnings of American History
European Culture Institutions Occupation
Transmission Dutch English French Portuguese Ru
ssian Spanish Swedish Colonial Expansion
Rivalries
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Independence
English Spanish Brazilians Canadians National
Development Interrelations with Outside
World Broad Context to Understand Whole
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Thesis vs. Approach
Technique that sought to highlight the
similarities differences to heighten the
appreciation understanding of the human
experience in the western hemisphere.
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Acceptance of the Concept
Yesterday Today Goals Beyond limiting
national histories Understanding of history
culture of the region Key to inter-American
relations Gain more meaning of national
histories Good historiography