1. Historians: lesson 1
Coursework

2. Historians: lesson 1 Evaluate The views and context of your historians
Know
Which historians you need to research for your coursework
Understand
How to use these historians in your coursework

3. A03 (Historians)
This section of your coursework has two main compartments:
You need to show understanding of two historians VIEWS, on the topic of your coursework (i.e. what is their answer to your c/w question?)
anti-Semitism: goldhagen, browning
king: hodgson, carson
You then need to evaluate the context in which they write by considering:
WHEN DO THEY WRITE AND HOW IT WOULD IMPACT THEIR INTERPRETATION
THEIR ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS (EDUCATION BACKGROUND, SPECIALISMS, AWARDS)
ANY OTHER RELEVANT DETAIL (E.G. GOLDHAGEN’S FATHER IS A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR)
Know
Which historians you need to research for your coursework
Understand
How to use these historians in your coursework
Evaluate
The views and context of your historians

4. Know Understand Evaluate
Make sure to point out that even level 1 says (differing = more than one)
Know
Which historians you need to research for your coursework
Understand
How to use these historians in your coursework
Evaluate
Model answers from last years cohort

5. What will this look like in my coursework?
After your introduction, there will be a ‘historians section’
This will be made up of 4 paragraphs and these paragraphs will be:
Historian 1 (view)
Historian 2 (view)
Historian 1 (context in which they write)
Historian 2 (context in which they write)
Word count: 1000 words (250 words per paragraph approx.)
Then, in your themes you will evaluate whether your find your historians convincing or not
Know
Which historians you need to research for your coursework
Understand
How to use these historians in your coursework
Evaluate
Model answers from last years cohort

6. UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORIAN’S VIEWS
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Which historians you need to research for your coursework
Understand
How to use these historians in your coursework
Evaluate
Model answers from last years cohort

7. Historian’s views – what do I actually write?
Historian 1 (view)
Historian 2 (view)
Historian 1 (context in which they write)
Historian 2 (context in which they write)
For each of your two historians, you will write one paragraph where you demonstrate your understanding of their argument on your topic. To do this, you need to:
Show that you understand their ‘overall’ answer to your question
Show that you understand the reasons they give for that answer (specific details)
Know
Which historians you need to research for your coursework
Understand
How to use these historians in your coursework
Evaluate
Model answers from last years cohort

8. How do I know what my historians think?
IN ORDER TO FIND OUT A HISTORIANS VIEW YOU NEED TO… READ THEIR BOOK :o
Yes… THIS MEANS ACTUALLY READING PAGES OF A PROPER BOOK THAT DOES NOT HAVE IMAGES.
YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO REFERENCE THESE BOOKS AND THEIR PAGE NUMBERS, SO NO, YOU CANNOT GO on amazon and read the reviews (yes this has happened, yes they were caught, YES THEY DID BAD…)
Know
Which historians you need to research for your coursework
Understand
How to use these historians in your coursework
Evaluate
Model answers from last years cohort

9. CONTEXT IN WHICH HISTORIANS WRITE
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Which historians you need to research for your coursework
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How to use these historians in your coursework
Evaluate
Model answers from last years cohort

10. Historians: context in which they write
In your coursework, you also have to show that you understand the context in which your historians write.
What factors lead to different historians forming different theories and interpretations about the same events?
Know
Which historians you need to research for your coursework
Understand
How to use these historians in your coursework
Evaluate
Model answers from last years cohort

11. Know Understand Evaluate
Which historians you need to research for your coursework
Understand
How to use these historians in your coursework
Evaluate
Model answers from last years cohort

12. Introduction to your historians and their views/context
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Which historians you need to research for your coursework
Understand
How to use these historians in your coursework
Evaluate
Model answers from last years cohort

13. How the rest of this lesson will work
I will spend some time going through the historians for anti-Semitism, and then time going through historians for king.
When I am not talking through your historians, you need to silently read the extracts you printed for homework, and answer the questions on the sheet I am about to give out.
If you finish, you should try and summarise the following for each historian
What is their answer to your coursework question?
What do they say specifically to back up their answer?
Know
Your historian’s interpretations in relation to your investigation
Understand
The specific arguments made by your historian
Evaluate
Whether you are convinced by your historians

14. Anti-Semitism (An overview of the historians)
Know
Your historian’s interpretations in relation to your investigation
Understand
The specific arguments made by your historian
Evaluate
Whether you are convinced by your historians

15. Anti-Semitism: views Browning
Studied police battalion 101 (committed massacres and round-ups of Jews for deportations to the Nazi death camps in German-occupied Poland in 1942)
the men of Unit 101 killed out of a basic obedience to authority and peer pressure
Therefore, they did not killed out of blood- lust or anti-Semitism
Goldhagen
Also studied Police Battalion 101
Believes german’s were ‘willing executioners’ during nazi Germany/the holocaust
This is because of an ‘eliminationist anti-Semitism’, which was unique to the german people
Eliminationist anti-Semitism developed in centuries preceding nazi Germany
The nazi party simply ‘activated’ the eliminationist anti-Semitism amongst the german people
What is their answer to your question?
Know
Your historian’s interpretations in relation to your investigation
Understand
The specific arguments made by your historian
Evaluate
Whether you are convinced by your historians

16. Anti-Semitism: context
Browning
Wrote following the fall of the Berlin WALL (1990) WHICH ALLOWED HIM access to new archives previously kept secret by the Soviet Union
American historian with a professorship
He was a witness in the David Irving vs. Deborah Lipstadt case (film called ‘denial’ is about this trial on Netflix!)
Goldhagen
Wrote in reaction to browning’s ordinary men
PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL STUDIES (NOT A HISTORIAN)
Goldhagen’s father survived the holocaust: his “understanding of Nazism and of the Holocaust is firmly indebted" to his father's influence
Goldhagen's book went on to win the American Political Science Association’s, 1994 Gabriel A. Almond Award in comparative politics, and the Democracy Prize of the Journal for German and International Politics. Time magazine reported that it was one of the two most important books of 1996
The book sparked controversy in the press and academic circles.
Should the bullet points be considered a strength or limit? why?
Know
Your historian’s interpretations in relation to your investigation
Understand
The specific arguments made by your historian
Evaluate
Whether you are convinced by your historians

17. King: views hodgson King was the most important leader
The negatives outweigh the positives (LOOKS A LOT AT NEGATIVES)
WITHOUT King, the CRM would have followed a different path
Obama would not have been elected without King
carson
Studied the significance of king
King’s image has been cultivated into one of a black heroic figures
‘king myth’ = king’s importance has been exaggerated
King was important, but we should not forget bigger social factors (such as grass roots).
The crm would have followed the same path without king
What is their answer to your question?
Know
Your historian’s interpretations in relation to your investigation
Understand
The specific arguments made by your historian
Evaluate
Whether you are convinced by your historians

18. King: context What is their answer to your question? carson
hodgson
Observer's Washington correspondent in the 1960s, later editor of Insight at the Sunday Times, one of the original anchors of Channel 4 News, and foreign editor of The Independent.
He is the author of more than a dozen books, mostly about American history and politics
His book focuses on the ’s
he trained as an historian at Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania
carson
 African-American professor of history at Stanford University
Since 1985 he has directed the Martin Luther King Papers Project, a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Went to the march on Washington: "I have a lot of vivid memories, but not of King's speech." What left the biggest impression were "the people I met there.“
His book focused on the ’s
While studying at UCLA, he was involved in civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests. He speaks of that experience in his current writing, highlighting the importance of grassroots political activity within the African American freedom struggle.
What is their answer to your question?
Know
Your historian’s interpretations in relation to your investigation
Understand
The specific arguments made by your historian
Evaluate
Whether you are convinced by your historians