How to RESEARCH a HISTORY topic | Basics of the HISTORICAL METHOD
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- If you want to research a history topic for a paper or video, Dr. Miano offers some tips and strategies about how to do it, including a basic guide to the historical method used by historians, who don't rely on textbooks or surveys to get their information, but on primary sources. Insights from his own experiences should give you a helping hand.
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"Drawing conclusions from unsubstantiated assumptions" is a great way of expressing that. I've been calling it "History Channel history."
This is wonderfully explained. Thank you for this video.
Always glad to get a notification for a new video here.
What a useful series! Thanks. May the algorithm bless you .
This is great information that I know will be very helpful to many people. Looking forward to the next one.
This is great; and it helped me with my Master’s Thesis in History. Thank you for disseminating knowledge. Would love to see a video on your personal library; it reminds me of Thomas Jefferson’s library. I too would love to visit Anatolia and Turkey; the historical significance of events that happened in those places are highly misunderstood today.
I did a lot of research on the history of elevators and the future space elevator construction plans for a pair of books I wrote on Wattpad. Your breakdown on sources is very very helpful and important. I used Wikipedia and a few other local (offline) sources to corroborate the records
This is valuable knowledge. I will use this knowledge for self study!
Great job sir, your collab with Mr. Beats brought me here. I think this video should have million of views. I need this teachings. Thank you so much.
This is pretty helpful!
Thank you for this great information! Is that a Tardis behind you? I love that!
Thanks for your video!
Good lecture Dr. Miano.
I'm just setting out on my undergraduate dissertation - albeit on something far more modern than the channel's core - and just wanted to say thank you very much for this video. It contains fantastic info us wet behind the ear types won't even consider off the bat, and I'll be going back through it all directly with pen and paper at hand!
Thank You so much!!!
The great benefit of modern sources is that they are abundantly more thorough.
thank you so much for posting this. I am writing my research paper and needed a bit more info on the steps of conducting historical research...had to write out how I will conduct my research.
Glad it was helpful!
Appreciate this. Learning about the bible and it's reliability and what parts are myth/legend/historical is helpful. I like useful charts "who wrote the bible" as well for this.Even the new testament has 50 years of a gap from eye witness testimony to the first written documents. Then there is Constantine's meddling... I'd love to have a good long chat with an historian about this topic... would be very interesting.
Thank you very much for this
Always welcome!
oh yeah, this is the good stuff. This should be required viewing for all the alternative history folks so they at least can admit all they have is a THEORY but it is UNLIKELY given the historical evidence. Again, thank you so much for doing this.
My wife recently got to speak to one of her idols- Miss Alice B. Kehoe- via emails & then a zoom call; she's been on cloud 9❤ I'm trying to learn as much as possible about ancient history because, even after 11yr of marriage, I'm still not sure what she's talking about most of the time & that's not fair
I had to watch this video for school, and so glad I did. You've created a new dimension to something I had lost my passion for in the ups and downs of life. Where I loved learning about history, this allowed me to see an exciting, investigative flair to it that I had not ever noticed before. Thank you so much for the video!
I am glad you found it valuable, Jasmine.
@Akhand Bharat It's a fascinating subject, and I am glad you are interested in it. But I can't cover such a huge topic in the RUclips comments. In the video (13:24), I offered consulting services. If you are interested in that, you can email me about it. My email address is in the About section of my RUclips page.
You're a good guy.
This is very helpful for me. For years I’ve been thinking of writing a book about how Nebuchadnezzar quickly took over the power vacuum of the Fertile Crescent. I also always wondered if he actually accepted the Jewish God as his own God. His praise of God in Daniel’s book is one of the best in the whole Bible.
Sounds fascinating! I hope my series will be of assistance.
Excellent and clear guidelines on something, that seems to me, could even could be applied more generally to other fields of science for purely textual scientific research. In any situation when limited to textual sources because of practical limitations.
Looking forward to the next video on the use of modern sources!
Also would love to hear your insights on more efficient approaches to this method, as in the use of 'pre-vetted' sources or collections of such or putting effective limits of going down into often the deep and wide collection of sources used in citations, as to not getting sucked into the proverbial endless rabbit hole.
Or would you personally scoff at/be wary of any shortcuts or trade-off choices for the sake of time-efficiency, instead preferring the 'higher goal' of more personally assured scientific rigor?
Well, I do think that historians would balk at the idea that other historians would tell them what is and isn't valuable. They would prefer to do it themselves. But for the non-professional, that might prove helpful.
Hello Professor Miano! This was great, really enjoyed it. I’m really interested in archeology and ancient/pre history and want to study it. However, the relatively low income and how hard it is to find jobs in the field is unfortunately a big “turn off”. What would be your advice to an aspiring archaeologists/historian regarding how to find jobs?
It's a great subject, and one that I am sure you would love. But you are right that a teaching job doesn't pay much. I am trying to have a go establishing my own brand and my own online courses. We will see how that goes. But people with history or archaeology degrees can get jobs in other (unrelated) fields too.
Hello Doc, I hope you are doing well, I am looking for information about the origins of bed and breakfast (BNBs), any advice on where to look for this primary sources if possible, thank you for your time.
Perfect timing! A challenge for you Professor Miano. This is a bit vague and not quite ancient but based on your videos on the Mayan, I had the honor of working on the first clearing excavation of Kuelap in 1980s north Peru. The Italian Professora (sorry forgot her name) whom had found a kings tomb the previous year on Peruvian coast which was front cover of national geographic, discovered and opened (with me watching) the first tomb, top left hand side of the entrance to Kuelap.
The immediate revelation was that the bones showed european dimensions, ie: the thumb is higher than shoulder. Also legend of white skin red hair people, such an intelligent fort, story of vikings etc etc...
I have searched for years but no luck with evidence ( only lost bits and pieces). Perhaps it is something you might consider exploring, making a video as an example???
Whilst the " Mysterious Kuelap" video may never happen I had to share my story.
All the best for Christmas and a great 2021!
Thanks, Bob. Although I have no plans to do a Kuelap video specifically, I do have one planned on the general topic of ancient Europeans in America.
Excellent video, very useful !! What is your take on experimentation to gain insight as to how an artifact was produced? Might be a good idea for a video. I've written two research papers for the National Park Service while I was a restoration/recreation Blacksmith there. One paper was how rosehead square nails were produced during the colonial period and the other was about axe head manufacture prior to the Bessemer process using iron. Currently I'm working on pre-electrical lighting in my "period" Blacksmith shop as an experiment. My goal is to experience what it would have been like and it's limitations. I love gaining historical insight through experimentation.
I think it's a great idea. Engineers like Denys Stocks has done that kind of work for Egyptian artifacts.
Very educational and informative; maybe you should tout your services to the 'History' channel?!
Hi, I just found your channel through Stefan Milo and have been greatly enjoying your videos! I hit that subscribe button QUICK. I’m especially glad to be watching this video, because I’m hoping to create a question video of my own and want to do it correctly!
I had a question, or I guess a series of questions. First of all, can artifacts be just as valid as written documents for doing history with? Secondly, if artifacts can be as valid as written documents for doing history with, what’s the purpose of the dividing line of history/prehistory? Why isn’t it all just history? Certainly there would be a tendency for a sources to get lusher over time as more written documents become available, but to me (and I could be totally wrong) that seems to be a difference of degree rather than kind.
Based on this video I kind of think it might be the existence of a primary source, even if it’s only referred to in a secondary or tertiary source, that separates prehistory from history. I can imagine a theoretical ancient culture with writing system that we don’t have a Rosetta Stone for which becomes untranslatable. Would that culture be prehistoric because we don’t have access to primary sources? How does oral history fit into this?
Artifacts are valuable sources of information to historians, but they are not their primary object of study. The dividing line between prehistory and history is based not on what remains have the most value, but on where the training in a discipline lies. Historians learn how to interpret documents, and archaeologists learn how to interpret material remains. Anthropologists learn how to interpret oral traditions. So yes, if we find a culture that has no writing, it would be considered prehistoric, even if there are other cultures from the same time period that had writing. Nevertheless, when we are talking about the whole world, the term "prehistoric" generally refers to time before ANY culture had writing.
A good study topic would be the ancient cataclism. I see it mentioned very often. But from where did it come, are the "items" concerned alligned to a specific angle. could you indicate if a study has been conducted.
There were many ancient cataclysms. Do you have a specific one in mind?
Do you offer training? X)
I think your a interesting professional- as this was on point
Sources do talk & genetics is opening more history as I'm curious on E divisions in Mesopotamia as I found some to be Syrians of 1400bc.
According to ancient DNA analyses conducted by Skourtanioti et al. (2020) on 10 human remains from Tel Mardikh, the inhabitants of the kingdom of Ebla were a mixture of Levantines, Iranians, and Anatolians. One Early Bronze Age (2700-2500 BC) individual carried haplogroup E1b1b, a lineage closely linked to the diffusion of Afroasiatic languages."
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BMAC culture fossils
great video and this really helped. question??? paranormal activity, or is that a hair flying at the top right corner at the 32 second mark. Just creeped me out for a second.
Hmmm..... From what I can tell "research" in 2021 is finding the RUclips video that has the best title and thumbnail image. After that it's all about the editing. Also, every well researched video has to remind the audience that "the experts do not want you to know this!".
This is the best method.
Probability..🤔Thanks for the recommendation. I have a better idea of how history is recorded.
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So how much would it cost to get you to play final fantasy 7?
This isn't Twitch, you know. 😉
So what about wearing a disguise and bypassing boobie traps?
Always remember to grab your hat tho
Always enjoy the videos. Maybe sit back a lil more from the camera. You're a huge head on the TV screen, like Bobby's World, without the tiny body.
Haha, I will keep that in mind.
i think that the colour of the paint in your room gives you a slightly jaundiced look. And that Tom Baker is the greatest of all doctors
Indeed he is!
At least in today's world, you do not need to use a local library's catalog cards in-person for researching....lol. Thank goodness for the internet.
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@@WorldofAntiquity BUT MY EXPERIENCE ALL OF MY KNOWLEDGE I AM 15 YEAR OLD BUT I RESEARCH OLD WORLD HUMANS ANIMALS MOUNTAINS LIKE EGYPT AND PYRAMIDS ANYTHING I RESEARCH IT THIS IS MY PASSION BUT IAM SCHOOL BOY AND MANY YEARS OF TIME I SPENT BUT IT 😢
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Very concise & excellently explained; very well done!
I don't know how it's done in the US of A, but when I was in school in Australia, VERY little training was ever given on how to actually Write a critically-analytical, logically self-consistent essay; really good job on a desperately under-covered area!
My only criticism wld be your (apparent) failure to reference "Stichens"; what about a call-out to this titanic font of prehistoric knowledge?
how to find the primary sources
absolutely nothing on the principality of etelköz
nice TARDIS lol
Mmmm...plausibility and probability...intrinsic likelihood and how far is plausibility and probability from the realm of normal experience, if plausible is it probable are quite the questions? The source compared with other sources of the time and same place. Independent witnesses of the event the earlier the better. Friend and foe of the event increases the probability the event happened. Information with no axe to grind is reliable. Is it at odds or embarrassing to the source make it a worthy source of information. Guides that indicate a usual tendency, or something is endemic, as a part of the nature of the subject, inseparable from it, make it a trustworthy piece of evidence or attestation after many points of views arrive at the same conclusion...there is a common ancestor for our genus is a logical deduction of an historical event preceding the birth of Jesus by millions of years and the historical source written about the event 100 years after the life of Jesus has less authenticity as a source than the Fossil Record does about the Human Species.
Critical Think ... it is Still Legal,, i think
Have you been eating better with your RUclips income lol