LET’S TALK
History
ABOUT
Lesson
Objectives
• DEFINE HISTORY AND TRACE ITS
DEVELOPMENT AS A FIELD OF STUDY
• EXAMINE THE ISSUES SURROUNDING THE
HISTORICAL DISCIPLINE
• EVALUATE THE IMPORTANCE AND FUNCTION
OF HISTORY
Meaning of
History
HISTORY IS DERIVED FROM THE
GREEK WORD “HISTORIA”
WHICH MEANS LEARNING BY
INQUIRY AND INVESTIGATION
HISTORIA became known as the
account of the past of a person or a
group of people through written
documents and historical evidence
History can refer to
FIRST two things: SECOND
History relates to History also
everything that refers to a
had happened in kind of
the past. research or
inquiry
History is a discipline or a field of
study and investigating that is
primarily concerned with human
activities done in the past
1 2 3
History’s History as a History is
focus on field of concerned
human inquiry with the past
activities
Ancient Greek
Historians
Ancient Greek Historian
Herodotus Ancient Greek Historian
Thucydides
He is recognized as the Father Magnum opus was the History of
of History the Peloponnesian War
The one who established Known as the Father of Scientific
History as a science History
His purpose in writing his work First who highlighted the
HISTORIES was to describe the importance of the systematic and
deeds of men in the past for impartial collection of evidence
posterity or future use. as an essential prerequisite in
His quest for knowledge of the writing history
past was not only about The only reliable sources of
retelling past human activities, history were testimonies of
but also about finding out and eyewitnesses
Similarity between Ancient Greek
Historians Herodotus and
Thucydides was their focus on the
history of limited geographic
space and of a recent historical
period. Their idea of history was
limited to the history of a
particular society in a specific
period.
They realized that history is vast
and cannot be captured in the
memory of a single generation.
Concl
They would develop a new historical
method that is limited to collecting
usion
eyewitness testimonies. They would
learn to study the remote past through
a compilation of various works and
records kept by different people at
different places and times.
The importance that this new method
would place in records, specifically in
written records, would usher in the
period of tedious and meticulous record-
keeping that would start in the
subsequent medieval period.
Questions
and
Issues
in History
Questions on History
and Historiography
What is history?
Why study history and for
whom?
HISTORIOGRAPHY
HISTORIOGRAPHY
HISTORIOGRAPHY
POSITIVISM
POSITIVISM
No Document, No
History
It means that
unless a written
document can
prove a certain
historical event
then it cannot be
Some Valid Historica
Documents
• Government
Records
• Chronicle's
Accounts
• Personal Letters
• Famiy Tree
Discrimination in the
Validity of History
Restricting historical
evidence as exclusively
written is a discrimination
against other social
classes who were not
There are theories constructed
by historians in investigating
history:
FACTUAL HISTORY -
SPECULATIVE HISTORY -
presents readers the plain
goes beyond facts
and basic information, the
because it is concerned
events that took place
about the reasons for
(what), the time and date
which events happened
with which the events
(why), and the way they
happened (when), the
happened (how).
place with which the
Post Colonialism
Post Colonialism
Post Colonialism
‘WE ARE NOT
MAKERS OF
HISTORY. WE ARE
MADE BY HISTORY’
- MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. -
Thank
You!
