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I figured from the name of the class that we were going to focus on thinking about history in this class, not just a competition over who can regurgitate the most information, but it didn’t hit as to what the class was meant to teach you until cluna3’s class presentation on the Last Samurai and Jeremy Popkin’s Herotodus to H-net reading. For me the purpose of this class has been to make us start thinking like historians through the analysis of multiple articles and change the way we look at history to take in mind different perspectives which was the purpose of why we did class presentations. For the blog posts, as far as I’ve seen have been successful in teaching us in how reference each other’s work the same way historians do to legitimize our arguments.

The presentation by peterrossi1 mentions the idea of different perspectives to historical events and why their aren’t certain accounts for historical events to get the account from a new source that was never thought of before like how he mentions the lack of representation of those who were actually in the battle. This idea of challenging sources looking from a different angle comes back to the purpose of the class. Also rebekahbenninger1’s blog on the Tempest Around Isaac’s Storm mentions author intent and how Isaac’s Storm doesn’t stand firm when it comes to historical accuracy. This brings up fact stretching to suit the narrative of the story and whether this can be considered good history from a research stand point. This issue of inaccuracy is again brought up by zhedrick with his blog post about the inconsistancies of Larson’s work in regard to stick true to the facts and embelishing others and there is evidence of this within the notes of the book itself. Zhedrick’s other blog on the Faith and Doubt article talks about the importance of having different accounts of different historical happenings to understand themes, circumstance, culture and societies of the time period in general and how this can aid in coming up with an argument that you may want to push in a paper you’re writing.