Capitalism US history

Primary sources

materials produced by froups directly connected to the topic as participation or witnesses

Secondary sources

writing that comments on and interpret primary sources

Tertiary sources

source that consists of information that is a collection of primary and secondary sources

Cyclical view

history runs in circles “history repeats itself”

Providential view

held that the course of history is determined by god

Progressive view

human history illustrates neither endless cycles nor divinde intervention

Post modernism

raises the question of weather the past can be truly understood from the perspective of the present

Historiography

examines evidence taken from earlier writings by historians themselves through methods from earlier generations

Revisionism

reexamination or reinterpretation of earlier research

History

the study of context, change, agency, and time