History Extension flashcards

38 HSC History Extension cards across 2 modules (0 definitions, 38 key facts, 0 fill-the-gap, 0 formulas). Each session gives you 20 cards, due cards first. Swipe right for easy, left for hard, down for again. Keyboard: Space to flip, 1 to 4 to rate.

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What this deck covers

Constructing History (32 cards, 16 dot points)
The History Project (6 cards, 3 dot points)

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Aims and purposes of history for HSC History Extension
Tell me about History as identity and nation
A second great purpose is the construction of collective identity, above all national identity. Nineteenth-century historians frequently wrote to forge or legitimise the nation.
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Annotated bibliography and process log for HSC History Extension
Tell me about The annotated bibliography
An annotated bibliography is a list of your key sources, each followed by a short evaluative note, often within a tight word limit such as a few hundred words in total, so selectivity matters. The fatal error is to summarise what each source says.
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Case study and areas of debate for HSC History Extension
Tell me about The History Wars as an Australian case study
The Australian History Wars make a vivid case study because they expose all three debates sharply.
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Choosing a History Project and focus question for HSC History Extension
Tell me about From topic to focus question
Once you have an area of debate, you must distil it into a focus question. A historiographical focus question asks how or why interpretations have changed, or evaluates competing interpretations, rather than asking what happened.
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Feminist and gender history for HSC History Extension
Tell me about From women to gender
The decisive intellectual move came when historians argued that adding women was not enough, because the categories of history themselves were gendered.
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Historical process and essay for HSC History Extension
Tell me about The essay as sustained argument
The essay answers the focus question with a sustained, evidence-based historiographical argument. It is not a narrative of events and not a summary of what each historian said in turn.
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Herodotus and Thucydides for HSC History Extension
Tell me about The contrast as a permanent tension
The difference between the two is not merely temperamental; it encodes choices every later historian must make. Herodotus chose breadth, inclusiveness and the reporting of rival accounts, accepting uncertainty as the price of scope.
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How history has been constructed for HSC History Extension
Tell me about Expanding the sources and the scale
The twentieth century radically expanded both what counted as a source and the scale at which history was constructed.
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Indigenous and non-Western history for HSC History Extension
Tell me about Indigenous traditions and deep time
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have transmitted accounts of the past across many thousands of years through oral narrative, song, ceremony, art and connection to Country.
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Marxist history for HSC History Extension
Tell me about A theory that selects evidence
What makes Marxist history important for Constructing History is that its theory determines its method. Because it holds that class and material conditions drive change, it looks for evidence of economic structure, labour and popular experience that political historians ignored.