NAME: CRISTIAN C.

GIAGONIA PHILIPPINE HISTORY

SECTION: BSME 1B

ESSAY:

1. What is history? How is it different from historiography?

2. What are the sources of history? Enumerate them.
3. How do historians write history?
4. Who are some of the notable Filipino historians? What are their contributions to
Philippine historiography?

1. History is the preserved account from the past that still known today thanks to
historians who wrote about the events of the previous century. It also serves as a
reminder of how our ancestors lived and how inventive they were. Historiography
is the study of history, particularly the study of history based on the critical
evaluation of sources, the selection of facts from authentic materials in those
sources, and the synthesis of those details into a narrative that can withstand
critical scrutiny. Historiography also encompasses the history and theory of
historical writing.
2. A source can be any type of item from the time in issue that transmits
information. Handwritten, printed, drawn, designed, and other prepared elements
are included. Books, newspapers, periodicals, journals, maps, architectural
perspectives, paintings, ads, and photography are only some of the examples.
3. The historical method is a set of strategies and standards used by historians to
do research and publish historical accounts. Primary sources and other
evidence, such as archeological findings employed. The historical method is a
set of strategies and standards used by historians to do research and publish
historical accounts. Primary sources and other evidence, such as archeological
findings employed. Historiography is the study of historical methods and diverse
ways of writing history. Within the sub-field of epistemology in history philosophy,
the topic of the nature and possibility of a sound historical method raised.
Historiography is the study of historical methods and diverse ways of writing
history.
4. Teodoro Agoncillo - Teodoro Agoncillo was a 20th-century Filipino historian.
He were among the first Filipino historians renowned for promoting a
distinctly nationalist point of view of Filipino history (nationalist
historiography).
 Gregorio F. Zaide - Gregorio F. Zaide was a Filipino historian, author
and politician from the town of Pagsanjan,Laguna in the Philippines. A multi-
awarded author, Zaide wrote 67 books and more than 500 articles
about history, he known as the "Dean of Filipino Historiographers". He was
one of the founders of International Association of Historians of Asia
(IAHA), and president of the Philippine Historical Association for three terms.
Jaime C. De Veyra - He also served as historical researcher in charge of
manuscripts and publications, National Library and historical researcher,
Office of the President, 1946.

DEFINITION OF TERMS:

Directions: Match each of the following terms with the correct definition.
Write the correct terms on the space provided.

A. artifacts
B. chronology
C. data
D. evidence
E. herstory
F. historian
G. historical research
H. historicism
I. historicity
J. historiography
K. history
L. idealism
M. oral history
N. prehistory
o. relativism

____F____1. a person who studies the events of the past

____G____2. a type of qualitative research which involves examining past
events to draw conclusions and make predictions about the future
____A____3. an object made by humans, especially one of historical
interest
___L_____4. any view that stresses the central role of the ideal or the
spiritual in the interpretation of experience
____N____5. events that occurred before the existence of written records in
a given culture or society
____E____6. history considered or presented from a feminist viewpoint or
with special attention to the experience of women
____M____7. information about the past gathered from interviews with
people
____C____8. information in raw or unorganized form (such as alphabets,
numbers, or symbols) that refer to, or represent, conditions, ideas, or objects
____D____9. something that proves a belief; something that indicates what
happened
____I____10. the act of producing a work that attempts to depict an
accurate representative of the real past
Learning Activity

____O____11. the belief that history was determined by laws, and the belief
that understanding people
and cultures requires an understanding of their historical events
____S____12. the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in
relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute
____B____13. the order in which things happen; the arrangement of event
in time order
____J____14. the study of the methods of historians in developing history as
an academic discipline, and by extension is anybody of historical work on a
particular subject
___K_____15. the study of what happened in the past; a record of past
event