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Reading in Philippine History
Reading in Philippine History
HISTORY derived from the Greek word historia means learning by inquiry
FACTUAL history presents readers the plain and basic information vis-a-vis the events that took place
what when who
SPECULATIVE history goes beyond facts because its concerned about why the events happened. Why and
how.
HISTORIANS
HISTORIOGRAPHY
-imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process
HISTORY-AS-ACTUALITY
HISTORY-AS-RECORDS
VERISIMILITIDE
-the truth,authenticity,plausibility
HISTORICAL METHODS
- process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
-historians must select the subject to investigate, collect probable sources of information on the subject,
examine the sources genuineness, in part of in whole, extract credible particulars from the sources
NOTE: synthesis and analysis cannot be separated since they have the common ground, the ability to
understand the past through some meaningful,evocative and convincing historical or cross disciplinary
connections between a given historical issue and other historical contexts, periods, or themes.
ARTIFACTS OR DOCUMENTS
-These are raw materials out of which is history is maybe written
INTERPRETATIVE
HISTORICAL IMPARTIALITY
-objects or things that have since been forgotten or the experience of generation long dead
HISTORIA
-Learning by inquiry
HISTORICAL DATA
-it is a sourced from artifacts that have been left by the past
SOURCE
PRIMARY SOURCES
ARCHEOLOGICAL
DIPLOMATIC SOURCES
-historian considered this as a best sources document/record and existing legal situation as the best
sources
ESCHATOCOL
-it is the third part of diplomatic source the attestation of those responsible with the document,which
may be the author, writer, counter signer and witness to the enactment or the subscription
UNWRITTEN SOURCES
SOCIAL DOCUMENT
LITERATURE
SECONDARY SOURCES
-these are materials made by people long after the event is being described had taken place