8-2 Project 3: Multimedia Presentation

State three historical lenses that could be applied to your topic and explain how each lens can be applied.

Describe how one of the lenses you just identified might change how you approach researching your topic, thus affecting the historical narrative.

Discuss the conclusions you can draw from thinking about how history is told. Consider how historians are persuaded by their own biases, motivations, and influences of their time.

Describe how your research of a historical topic can help you understand

contemporary

issues in our lives, and try to list at least two related contemporary issues

After taking this course, what is your opinion about the statement “history repeats itself”? Do you think this is accurate? What information from the course guides you to this conclusion?

Discuss your obligation as a citizen of your society to understand the history behind issues that impact you every day. (Note that this does not specifically have to relate to your topic).

 Political Lens: With my topic being the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, the political lens would be relevant. The topic if very political and is centered around the government.

Social Lens:

This topic also uses the social lens because it demonstrates the differences difference between a variety of social groups.

Economic Lens:

Among the different social groups mentioned in the Social Lens explanation is the ordinary citizens. For the first time, mechanics, small farmers, etc. were encouraged and welcomed to participate in the political process. This played a significant role during that time as it allowed the common people to elect politicians that best resonated with their economic interests. .

A lens that I didn’t really look into before is the economic lens. This is an interesting perspective, and it would change my approach by focusing more on the drafting of the U.S. affected the economic and how that affect trickled over time into present time.

As spoken about in previous modules, historians do have biases when telling history. This may not happen all the time but when it is coming from a secondary source the reader needs to be aware of these biases and take into consideration during their research.

An issue that came to mind was the disagreements that still happen between our government today. Having that understanding that in the political world things will always seem so out of control and hectic.

Another one is the issues between social classes. There is still ongoing disagreements between who should have more say. The working class still moves forward to wanting more say while the elite continue to hold on to their power.

History most definitely repeats itself and I find that to be very much so true because people do not care or bother to learn about history. Therefore causing ignorance and that causes people to unknowingly make mistakes until after the fact.

After learning about the importance of history in this class; I highly would encourage everyone, including myself, to read and learn about history. It doesn’t matter what profession you are in, history still applies and is relevant.

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Historical Lenses and History’s Value

I will refer back to module 3 when talking about the different history lenses and how they change the perspective of a research topic for a historian. By defining a historical lens, it helps the historian figure out why a history event happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9mrBFlup1s

My Topic

My research topic is drafting of the U.S. Constitution. I will provide primary and secondary sources to not only support the historical lenses that I am presenting but also to help answer my research question and go in depth about my topic.

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Three Historical Lenses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ2A6ODMHIY

Lens 1

Political Lens:

With my topic being the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, the political lens would be relevant. The topic if very political and is centered around the government.

Lens 2

Social Lens:

This topic also uses the social lens because it demonstrates the differences difference between a variety of social groups. This demonstrates how the drafting of the United States Constitution affected different social groups and the long impact that that had on certain people. Which ultimately will talk about how it impacted the society. That includes how their motives might’ve changed and what drove their actions and behaviors.

Lens 3

Economic Lens:

Among the different social groups mentioned in the Social Lens explanation is the ordinary citizens. For the first time, mechanics, small farmers, etc. were encouraged and welcomed to participate in the political process. This played a significant role during that time as it allowed the common people to elect politicians that best resonated with their economic interests. .

Conclusions

In conclusion, in my presentation I will speak about all three lenses and how they all represent and resonate with my topic. Using the graphics and some audio to help with bringing together my project I will try to keep the audience as engaged as possible. I want to make the pictures familiar. That helps to connect with the audience and make it as relatable as possible.

Our Lives

In our lives today there is history everywhere we look. Things and people are there because of what has happened in the past. Generations are just building blocks. Our lives are just building blocks. We are just a building of blocks that keeps on getting taller and without the block below, the block in the present wouldn’t be able to build. We are more alike than we think if we look at history. We would most likely be more appreciative and stop taking for granted so many aspects of our lives. We often get so caught up in the present busy lives that we have that we don’t think about the days that we weren’t so fortunate as people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCt8u4tcPY0

Does History Repeat Itself? (My Opinion)

Yes, of course history repeats itself. I have heard this many times throughout my life and have seen it happened first handed. During this I could possibly share a story of something simple and relatable that will point out how, as being humans, we do repeat history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pMAyygF_24

Does History Repeat Itself? (Evidence From the Course)

Yes it is clear that history repeats itself. Humans always tend to be emotional creatures that, perhaps in different situations, but ultimately end up doing the same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPZMKxgTAN4

Are Citizens Obligated to Know History?

Citizens are not obligated to know history. That however does not because that they shouldn’t be encouraged. The special note to take about history is that it applies to everything and anything. Everything has a back story.