History Lexicon

Lexicon

• Circumstances that surround a situation or event

• The vocabulary of a person, language or branch of knowledge

• To explain the meaning of something such as data or a written document

• Closely connected to what is being studied or considered

Artifact

• A prejudice in favor or against a thing, person or group compared with another

• The study of past events, particularly in human affairs

• To draw a conclusion from evidence

• A physical item from the past made by humans

Bias

• To draw a conclusion from evidence

• Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another,

• Accounts of the past written at a late time by people who did not experience the event.

Context

• A set of primary sources related to an event or person

• The vocabulary of a person, language or branch of knowledge

• Circumstances that surround a situation of event

• A person's way of viewing an event, person, or object

Culture

• A system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors and artifacts that the members of a society use and transmit from generation to generation

• To explain the meaning of something such as data or a written document.

• A method of gathering and preserving historical information through interviews with people

• Records from the past created by people who were actually there

History

• To draw a conclusion from evidence

• The vocabulary of a person, language or branch of knowledge

• A set of primary sources related to an event or person

• The study of past events, particularly in human affairs

Historical Record

• To draw a conclusion from evidence

• A set of primary sources related to an event or person

• A person's way of viewing an event, person, orobject

• Closely connected to what is being studied or considered

Infer

• Records from the past created by people who were actually there

• Accounts of the past written at a later time by people who experience the event

• To draw a conclusion from evidence

• To explain the meaning of something such as data or a written document

Interpret

• To explain the meaning of something such as data or a written document

• A physical item from the past made by humans

• Circumstance that surround a situation or event

Oral History

• A method of gathering and preserving historical information through interviews with people

• A prejudice in favor against a thing, person or group compared with another

• The vocabulary of a person, language or branch of knowledge