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+**[[start|<< Up]]**
 ====== History ======
+----
+===== Overview =====
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 evidence: physical (coins, buildings, paintings)
-          written/oral PRIMARY SOURCES
+          written/oral: PRIMARY SOURCES
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 a story of the past -------------------------
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+===== Problems of Knowledge =====
+  * evidence is liable to __forgery__,
+  * "a" story, because history is liable to __bias__: every historian must be writing from some perspective, has to make some __selection__ from all the evidence and sources available --\\ \\
+    * e.g. even writing about the Roman Empire, a British historian in1900, during the colonial time, will write differently from a modern American historian;\\ \\
+    * so historians have a responsibility
+      * to avoid presenting a one-sided view,
+      * to make it clear where they stand.
+===== Why We Study History =====
+... either as individuals or as a society:
+  * "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (George Santayana)
+  * For a person, a family or a people to have a sense of identity.
+  * For pleasure: we enjoy (writing and) reading stories -- //cf.// not only academic history, but also the many historical novels.
+  * "The proper study of mankind is man" (Alexander Pope) -- but how can we know what man is capable of, if we do not know what man has done?

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