After finishing reading the preface and chapter 1 of Jeremy Popkin’s From Heradotus to H-Net\u00a0<\/em>I knew immediately that learning about historiography will be much more challenging than learning about colonial America up to the Civil War. The content that is to come is very intimidating in the sense that it is a new way of learning and interpreting a subject that has been taught a very different way before entering college. Popkin’s reference to learning about historiography as a rite of passage is a great analogy because I agree that learning these skills will help any historian have a broader perspective and interpretation of history, opposed to simple facts and events that ultimately mean nothing in respect to itself. Terry_christi in\u00a0Historiography: More Than a Love of History wrote that “It is possible to spend a lifetime loving history as a \u201csponge\u201d; absorbing interesting facts, events and details from the past without ever critically evaluating the sources of the information. ” in which I agree that it is a fantastic feeling to delve into the mental time machine and to imagine living\u00a0during the Roman Republic. But diving into historical text about that era would probably lead you to not want to physically live in the time of the Roman Republic. However learning the realities of a harsh life of the period does not diminish the love of learning historical facts, but rather help us interpret our modern world and appreciate developments such as plumbing and sanitation. Historiography is satisfying because it fuels the love of history by giving it a practical application in the world today and challenges historians to look for details in sources providing \u00a0truth about the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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