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Exploring Historical Concepts and Developments

This quiz explores various concepts and developments in history, including the study of social history, digital history, and the contributions of notable scholars.

#History #Social History #Digital History #Historical Scholarship #Prehistory #Cultural Studies

1 Furthermore, it speculates as to a possible ________ end to its development—that is, it asks if there is a design, purpose, directive principle, or finality in the processes of human history.

2 More recently, the field of ________ has begun to address ways of using computer technology to pose new questions to historical data and generate digital scholarship.

3 Since the 20th century, the study of prehistory is considered essential to avoid history's implicit exclusion of certain civilizations, such as those of ________ and pre-Columbian America.

4 [34] However, the subject may range from a melee between two tribes to conflicts between proper militaries to a world war affecting the majority of the ________.

5 Social history is an area of historical study considered by some to be a ________ that attempts to view historical evidence from the point of view of developing social trends.

6 Scholars such as Martin Broszat, ________ and Detlev Peukert sought to examine what everyday life was like for ordinary people in 20th century Germany, especially in the Nazi period.

7 ________ dates back at least 700 years to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture centred on kinship links and land.

8 ________ is a term that describes the broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who are generally working outside of specialized academic settings.

9 Mapping History Project – ________

10 Scholars who write about history are called ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 2004, Expedition Global Eagle was the first attempt in history to circumnavigate the globe using an autogyro.
  • as a student, mathematician Audrey Terras was steered into math away from her other choice, history, by a post-Sputnik program that paid students to study mathematics.
  • in addition to his academic work, Norwegian history professor Øystein Sørensen is considered an expert on the Donald Duck universe.
  • the Louisiana state appeal court Judge H. Welborn Ayres wrote a history of his native Ashland, a village in northern Natchitoches Parish.
  • the California Wine Country (pictured) is known for its cuisine, recreation and history as much as viticulture.
  • the United States Army sends Military History Detachments to war zones to collect historical documents, such as oral histories, for writing histories.
  • Retired Rear Admiral Roberta L. Hazard, once the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. military, was a history teacher.
  • The 1940s House is a British historical reality television program about a modern family that tries to live as a typical middle-class family in London during The Blitz.
  • Charles deGravelles and his wife, Virginia, of Lafayette, Louisiana, were in 1968 the only married couple in history to serve together on the Republican National Committee.
  • Cecil Hobbs began his interest in Southeast Asian history after his career as a missionary in Burma was ended in 1942 by the Japanese invasion.
  • Myna Potts, an historical preservationist from West Texas, converted her father's former general store into a museum dedicated to rural people of the recent past.
  • Nikolay Danilevsky was the first writer to present an account of history as a series of distinct civilisations.
  • Uładzimir Karatkievič was a Belarusian writer whose novels deal predominantly with Belarus's history, including the January Uprising.
  • Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history.
  • historian Holden Furber was appointed as a social science analyst to the Office of Strategic Services after the United States entered World War II.
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