Seven Recs and a Request

[annafugazzi]

So, before anything else, here's a note from one of my kids:

Hi, my name is J. I am doing a project about the History of History and I have some questions for you:

1. What comes to mind when I ask you what are the different kinds of history?
   
2. What are some huge historical events that changed how we think of history? Or that changed what we think of

Comments

[annafugazzi]

Thank you thank you thank you! This was great. My little guy very much appreciates :) :)

And hey, being a history major can be useful; I used to be one myself :) :) :)

[bohemiabythesea]

I can give an answer to the first of the questions above, as I've just been working on that:

History started out as repeated tradition in the form of 'collective memory' and only later becomes a social science. The crucial difference between history and collective memory is that the former is a 'written chronological record of significant events affecting a nation or institution' and the latter 'a set of recollections, repetitions, and recapitulations that are socially, morally, or politically useful for a group or community'. (I am quoting in part from Favorini, Attilio. "History, Collective Memory, and Aeschylus' the Persians." Theatre Journal 55 March (2003): 99-111., but that is probably not relevant for your kid - stress that the difference is here: history = recollection, a narrative, formed by an author; memory [especially collective] = repetition, tradition; memory came first).

And thanks for the recs!

[annafugazzi]

Thank you thank you thank you! This was great. My little guy very much appreciated the help :) :)

Also, welcome for the recs!

[bohemiabythesea]

You're welcome! It was pure chance, really, that I had just stumbled across that particular piece.

[angelbabe_cj]

Another historian/history student here

[annafugazzi]

Thank you thank you thank you! This was great. My little guy was very happy :) :)

Welcome re. recs!

[laurellias]

1. Only addition I want to make is propagandistic history

[annafugazzi]

Thank you thank you thank you! This was great. My little guy very much appreciates :) :)

Propagandistic history. Had not heard of that one, and I was a history major too! Thanks :D :D

[daf9]

As a scientist, I'd say history started with the Big Bang. Pretty much changed everything is this corner of the universe anyway.

[annafugazzi]

Hee - yeah, fair enough :D :D :D