Term Papers on Historians

Term Paper Title	Historians
# of Words	748
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.99

Historians

Name: Stephanie Amar
Student #: 9532080
Teacher: Mr. A. Dalfen
Date: March 10, 1997

     "Professional historians spend their lives pursuing the meaning of the
past for the present." Everything that exists in today's world has some origin
coming from the past.  Everything that exists today and seems to be unique of
its time has some basis from the past.  It is a known fact that history has a
tendency of repeating itself, and so to prepare us for the future we need to
understand the past.  History can give a person an answer to almost everything
that is going on in the present, with what we call a historical investigation.
History not only states facts but explains disciplines such as sociology,
religion, psychology, anthropology and so on.  It explains to us why certain
events happened, such as the reason why six millions Jews died in the Second
World War. The reason history gives us is anti-Semitism.  The Nazis were a group
that had as a goal to purify the world of what we call minorities and so to keep
it a White, straight, Christian world.  History explains the evolution of things,
people, beliefs, laws and many more in order for us to understand why certain
things are the way they are.

     In this article, we come across a few major points.  Each of them is
introduced in a very original way. The author uses a literal journey into the
past as a means of comparing it to the present.  One of the many points is an in
depth definition of  history related profession.  What are they trying to
accomplish and how they work to get what they are looking for.  "Professional
historians spend their lives pursuing the meaning of the past for the present."
Historians study facts and records that previous generations have left, to find
out what kind of lives they led and how they solved their problems.

     The way a historian works is very determined and simple to understand.
A historian needs to first choose an important question he wants to answer. Then
he needs to find research on the subject that already exists and which he can
get access to.  Next he has to judge the source that he has obtained, is it
credible? Is it genuine? The article explains that there are two basic forms of
historical evidence that exist, primary and secondary.  Primary evidence records
the actual words of someone who participated or witnessed th...

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