LECTURE 1 KEY TERMS
What is history?

historiography

wie es eigentlich gewesen ("show what actually happened")

Leopold von Ranke

Enlightenment

determinism (causality - cause and effect)

empiricism

rational analysis

empirical-analytical model

evidence

primary sources

secondary sources

Edward Hallett Carr  new What is History [PDF link]

“historical facts”

"facts of the past"

Stalybridge Riot 1850

gingerbread vendor murder

accidents of history

Blaise Pascal
Pensées

Cleopatra's Nose Theory

counterfactual history (virtual history)

Glorious Revolution 1688

constitutional monarchy

"progress"

narrative history

Great Man in History

Dead White European Males (DWEM)

structuralism (structural history)

ahistoricism

vertical history vs. horizontal history

New Military History

Labour History

Women's History

African-American History

Gender History

Big History