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The document discusses the role of historians in establishing historical knowledge, emphasizing that not all past events qualify as historical facts. It highlights the importance of rigorous methodologies and the influence of contemporary issues on historical narratives. The text also notes that historians must navigate biases while relying on legitimate sources to create a comprehensive understanding of history.

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The document discusses the role of historians in establishing historical knowledge, emphasizing that not all past events qualify as historical facts. It highlights the importance of rigorous methodologies and the influence of contemporary issues on historical narratives. The text also notes that historians must navigate biases while relying on legitimate sources to create a comprehensive understanding of history.

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HISTORY AND THE HISTORIAN

(GE-RPH)

History started growing as an established • Not everything that happened in


academic discipline in the nineteenth the past counts as a historical
century. fact.
• Facts of the past are different
WHO QUALIFIES AS from historical facts. (i.e., what
HISTORIANS? you did yesterday vs. what
• Historians are expected to keep up happened during the world war.)
with changes and developments in
historical knowledge in light of What then counts as a historical fact?
new evidence.
• They produce historical knowledge • Edward Hallett Carr: a historical
through continuous pursuit of fact is determined by a historian.
historical knowledge by answering • e.g., A young Filipina's diary during
questions of the past. the US colonial period in the
Philippines only becomes a
Students and enthusiasts of history revel historical fact when historians
in amazement about our fascinating past. decide to use it a hundred years
Historians ask relevant historical later to write a history of student
questions and answers them through life in the Philippines during that
rigorous historical perspective and period.
methods.
How does a historian decide which part of
TASKS OF HISTORIANS the past can be included in a historical
narrative?
• Historians examine and interpret
sources through the skills they • Historical questions are brought
acquired in training. about by issues at present that
• It is also their task to convert demand historical explanation.
historical sources into historical • In the past, historians thought
knowledge. that only political events like war,
revolutions, and regimes, are the
Some would say that it is impossible to only ones that have implications in
come up with a complete and exact the present.
historical truth because, • But now, subdisciplines of history
such as women’s history and social
• we only have access to history exist, along with the rise of
representations of the past conditions like gender equality and
through sources that survived economic equality.
through time.
• Historical sources do not speak for Because historians often study parts of
themselves. history that they relate to, they may have
relatively influenced their respective texts.
HISTORY AND THE HISTORIAN
(GE-RPH)

evidences that are significant to


• The way they write history might historical research.
have been affected by factors like
nationality, political ideology, “[History] is a continuous process
religion, educational background, of interaction between the
and overall experiences. historian and his facts, an
unending dialogue between the
The Objectivity of the Historian present and the past.”
- Edward Hallett Carr
Is it possible to come up with an
absolute historical truth?

• It is almost impossible to tell an


exact and accurate account of
history as we cannot go back to
the past.
• Studying history requires rigor.
• Historians are required to use
research and methodologies that
they are trained to employ.
• Historical methodology consists of
certain techniques and rules (e.g.,
how to properly treat eyewitness
accounts and oral sources as valid
historical evidence.)
• Example: if a historian decides to
use oral accounts to study Ifugao
history in the Cordilleras during
the American occupation, they
must compare said account with
pre-existing written sources.
• So, even though bias is inevitable,
historians must still rely on
legitimate sources no matter what.
• Claims by one historian will not be
recognized unless other historians
accept it.

Historians are central to the


creation of historical knowledge.
They collect and select facts and

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