Question

Claim: though often considered an objective pursuit, learning about the historical past requires creativity. Reason: because we can never know the past directly, we must reconstruct it by imaginatively interpreting historical accounts, documents, and artifacts.

Answer 1

Answer:

Historical sources include documents, artifacts, archaeological sites, features. oral transmissions, stone inscriptions, paintings, recorded sounds, images (photographs, motion pictures), and oral history. Even ancient relics and ruins, broadly speaking, are historical sources.

Answer 2

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which the claim is based.

Explanation:

• The author argues that while we will never truly comprehend the past history, we should reinterpret it by constructing historical records, artifacts, and so on. I acknowledge that it is impossible to grasp our historical accounts without imaginative creativity
• Historical data is often never chronologically excavated. This calls for acumen, precision and creativity in linking points to create a complete narrative that can reflect history in its best way.
• For example, school textbooks include various factual facts/information from different  contexts, such as the WWI and WWII. When you are learning closely, you will find specifics of how it happened, weapons used, coordination, the extent of devastation, etc. This is possible because historians utilised their creative intellect to form a meaningful story from the evidences gathered  and discovered on the ground.
• Interpreting past evidence from separate information may be a little difficult and could be incorrect at times. It is because prejudices may often play a part in manifesting history when analysing and interpreting them..
• I think that the interpretation of history accounts, artifacts and documents can be a fruitful way in analyzing history or historical events, unless the biases play no part in understanding our history.