How might you use the letters in a humaunities class? What has your experience with primary sources been? Can students be historians?
Well, first of all I have no idea what a humanuntities class is I never had to take one and I don't what it has to do with historical documents. I liked it the listening to the the primary source. Unfortunitly my speakers on my computer are not good at all so i couldn't really hear them that well. So I had to read from at least a page and half into it. Reading it was difficult because of the the scroll bar so it took me a while to read. I don't think students can be considered legitimate historians but they can have valuable insight like historians.
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When students learn from reading things like the Hunt and Bragg letters they are doing the same thing a historian would at first exposure to the material. Students are taught to and asked to analyze, synthesize, compare and contrast, and make inferences all the time; these are the same higher level thinking skills that historians apply when they’re on the job. I think students are fully capable of stepping into the role of historian and completely fulfilling the job requirements.
i agree with lindsey as she tells you that Students CAN be historians. Maybe not real life historians, but like Lindsey mentioned, they can do just the same work as a historian and act that way when exploring history, making just as legit as a real historian.
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