Lesson 2: Historian as Participant

News report on gender neutral anthem.

Key Quotes:

​P. 28 :The technical historian is inevitably the prisoner of the testimony that happens to survive.

P. 27 And, of all the forms of contemporary history, eyewitness history logically contained more pitfalls than any other, was more vulnerable to interest, bias, illusion, and wishful thinking.

P. 26 Truth was seen as the daughter of time: written history became better the farther away the historian was from the events he was describing.

P.30 ...the way people think and feel is an organic part of history.

P.31 The passage of time does not … liberate the historian from his deepest values and prepossession.

P. 31 Historians agree only when the problems as well as the people are dead.
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Schlesinger’s conclusion:

“I am not contending that eyewitness history, or contemporary history in general, are “better” than technical history, whatever such a judgment might mean. Obviously we need both… I would only suggest that the conventional reasons for professional disdain may not be so impressive as historians once thought - that eyewitness history has its own and distinctive strengths and advantages.”

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Lesson 1: Annotating in Google - Attitudes Towards Muslim Women in the West

In your group of three, you will annotate the interview with Lila Abu-Lughod
Questions - what do you wonder? (red)
Connections - what text to text, world or self connections can you make? (orange)
Most significant - what stands out and why? (purple)

One person makes a copy of this google doc and shares it with the other two members of your group. Place doc in your AP Seminar folder.

​THE INTERVIEW:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11GNoFQCRLCX7EXCW0t4WXOgbfxH-xPCHRddPgrNI4Hs/edit?usp=sharing