History 103 Lecture 1: Studying Western Civ

Studying HistoryLisa M. Lane

History IS context - for everything

Western Civ as a controversial class

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Tool 1: Context

Tools 2: Types of history

political economic social

intellectual militarytechnological

biological gender women's

environmental

Tool 3: Geography

Tool 4: The Timeline

Tool 5: Primary and Secondary Sources

Primary - created or written during the era we’re studying

Secondary - created using primary sources but after the fact

Primary or secondary?

Masaccio’s Trinity (1325)Map from 1960s textbook

Astrolabe (1291)

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Christoper Columbus arrivingin the New World (Tancredi Scarpelli, 1931)

Wikipedia entry

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