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Doing History: What Historians Do

Historians, Students and Teachers Doing History--Version: January, 2005

What historians do when they "do history"	What students do when they "do history"	What teachers do to help their students "do history"
Identify all of the actors who were touched by these sources, directly or indirectly, and their individual perspectives (e.g., women, blacks, workers, northerners, Catholics, etc.) Look to the specific historical context to understand the reasons different actors had for believing what they did	Identify all of the actors who were touched by these sources, directly or indirectly, and their individual perspectives on the history of that time. Understand the reasons people had for believing what they did	Help students to identify subjectivity and objectivity; point of view, bias in authorship. Help students empathize with different view points (role play, debate, etc.) Help students to identify strategies for persuasive writing