(2) All historians are sure of the fact that everyone has a different understanding of the world. Because of everybody’s race, religion, class, background, family, location, interests, and many more factors, everyone’s perspectives on anything may vary. In other words, these factors make us bias towards one side. A good historian understands this. When trying to study the past, historians remain objective, and consider all of their options, sides, and perspectives. To truly understand and achieve this, they must look at multiple different primary or secondary sources when studying the same event. If a historian was studying, for example, South Carolina breaking away from the Union, a southerner’s perspective on the event would be much, much different than a Northerner’s. He would have to study different sources. …show more content…
While reading the paper, me and my classmates were all disapproving of this society, and all thought that this society was completely ridiculous. However, if we had been reading the same worksheet, except it has read “USA” instead of “ASU” and “CAR” instead of “RAC”, we would have disagreed with the paper. Additionally, when we were studying and naming significant events, different people had named different events for which they thought was the most important. Grace saying that Kim Kardashian’s fight was the most significant event of the summer and Tyler saying the Cavs making history was the most significant were very different events, which were based off of their different