History Overview: Students will explore contemporary and historical issues from a global perspective. Standard Number Content Standard Content Strand
CI.07 Analyze the relationship between historical facts and historical interpretation. H, P
The student engages in historical analysis and interpretation:
Therefore, the student is able to:
Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas, values, personalities, behaviors, and institutions by identifying likenesses and differences.
Consider multiple perspectives of various peoples in the past by demonstrating their differing motives, beliefs, interests, hopes, and fears.
Analyze cause-and-effect relationships bearing in mind multiple causationincluding (a) the importance of the individual in history; (b) the influence of ideas, human interests, and beliefs; and (c) the role of chance, the accidental and the irrational.
Draw comparisons across eras and regions in order to define enduring issuesas well as large-scale or long-term developments that transcend regional and temporal boundaries.
Distinguish between unsupported expressions of opinion and informed hypotheses grounded in historical evidence.
Compare competing historical narratives.
Challenge arguments of historical inevitability by formulating examples of historical contingency, of how different choices could have led to different consequences.Hold interpretations of history as tentative, subject to changes as new information is uncovered, new voices heard, and new interpretations broached.
Evaluate major debates among historians concerning alternative interpretations of the past.
Hypothesize the influence of the past, including both the limitations and opportunities made possible by past decisions.
https://phi.history.ucla.edu/nchs/historical-thinking-standards/3-historical-analysis-interpretation/
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Evidence-Signet-David-Lifton/dp/0451175735
