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https://historians.social has been live for 48 hours!
We have well over 400 members on our server and we're growing just about every minute.
Although the instance says "historians," we're really a place for history and anyone who has an interest in or works with history. So #historyteachers history organizations, #libraries #archives #museums and anyone who wants to know more about the past and the process of history is invited to join us!
@lizcovart @histodons I probably would not fit but I always wonder who validates history. Is there a witness to sign off on it? Can oral be history? I am so curious about the act of marking the historical event/time. #questions # #history
@LinaBasile @lizcovart @histodons
Might not be the answer you're looking for, but imo no one "validates" history. There's simply no way to say we know everything about an event/person/place/culture at a specific time. We constantly reinterpret and reimagine it, based on new information (records, archaeology) and new ways of processing that info (theory, which is really just asking different questions). That's what makes it interesting! And yes, oral history counts!
@nathanledbetter @LinaBasile @lizcovart @histodons
I'm teaching grad class Teaching History now, mostly working K-12 teachers & one of the top takeaway ideas we keep returning to & reinforcing is that history is not an agreed-on body of knowledge (i.e. it doesn't iterate towards consensus and completion), but a constant argument w/ new questions, new evidence, new approaches to old evidence. Constant revision. That's a feature not a bug.
@tonahangen @LinaBasile @lizcovart @histodons
100%. The point of history education isn't to know such and such date--it's the best (imo) means to teach things like source evaluation and critical thinking, one essential component of which is the recognition that there's always more possibilities. Necessarily applicable to today, not just the past.