Historical Archive: Arizona Republic Edition From March 18, 1989
As a beginning we should try to clarify our thinking by looking, in some historical depth, at the presuppositions that underlie modern technology and science. Science was traditionally aristocratic, … Historical narratives plot themselves not just around grand narratives and myths or broad theories about language and identity, but also by the use of historical characterizations and the quasi … The so-called historical novels of the seventeenth century (Scudery, Calpranede, etc.) are historical only as regards their purely external choice of theme and costume. The nine historical thinking skills are grouped into four categories: Analyzing Sources and Evidence, Making Historical Connections, Chronological Reasoning, and Creating and Supporting a Historical … The purpose of writing a historical research paper is to interpret the past. Do not simply provide what one would find in an encyclopedia entry, whose purpose is, in the words of Sergeant Joe Friday, "to …
