AP US I - Interpretations of America
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jennafinnis on September 15, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 "Every true history is contemporary history." | Benedetto Croce- All historians are biased beacause your expirienceeffect how you interpret history. It is contemporary to the historian. |
| Puritans wrote | religiously |
| Cotton Mather was a | Providential historian |
| Providential Historians | explain everything through God's Will, or acting out of God's master plan |
| RAtionalists | had time and money. They were higher class and staye true to ideas of the englightenment like Humanism. They wanted to better understand history. |
| George Bancroft | was a nationalist, he interpreted history as the destiny of the Anglo-saxon;s for democracy and freedom |
| professional historians | were spcially trained, it was more than just a hobby |
| Fredrick Jackson Turner | explained history as a science. Used Darwin's theory of evolution to explain the development of the values, self=relliance, and practicallity of America. How we changed from European to American. |
| Charles A. Beard | iconoclast- he criticitezed those who made the constitution and thought they only did so for themselves |
| Consensus historians | wanted to acheive nationalism by agreeing on points in history. |
| History in 1960s | People found that history should be of conflict and stuggle to find the truth. Influenced by Vietnam war and Civil Rights Movement |
| Social History | suject and writers changed from white men. It was history of the people by the people. |
| bottum up history | history of ordinary or commoners |
| top down | history of the elite |
| "hot new histroy" | poblic history |
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