Maps

Historians use historical maps for several purposes: As tools for reconstructing the past, to the extent that maps provide records of features, landscape, cities, and places that may not exist any more or that exist in dramatically transformed form. As records of certain historical processes and relationships.

Dividing History Into Eras

• Historians often divide the past into eras. Each era is a period of time that is associated with a particular person, event, or quality. This type of classification, or arrangement of things into groups, helps historians study large patterns in human history.

• There are several different ways to organize events of the past. For example, the chronological form follows the flow of time.

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Bias, in comparison, is an intentional use of language to present a clearly one-sided (and often unfair) description of the event or person. This is most often seen in the kinds of adjectives or nouns a source uses to describe events. When identifying bias, it is crucial that you are able to point to specific words from the source to prove that they are either strongly in favor of, or strongly against, the person or event they’re describing.

For example:

"The Cowboys are the WORST football team ever!"

The use of the negative word choice shows a deliberate attempt by the writer to present a clearly one-sided description of the Cowboys: the author is clearly demonstrating an anti-Cowboys bias.

Similarly, the same author could describe the Cowboys as “AMAZING” or “THE BEST”. The use of positive descriptions shows a clearly pro-Cowboys bias.

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