{"id":58,"date":"2024-10-01T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2024-10-08T15:13:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:13:52","slug":"discipline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History is an academic discipline concerned with the past. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History#Areas_of_study\">Wikipedia defines History<\/a> as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-contrast-2-color has-accent-4-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>History<\/strong>&nbsp;(derived from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Greek_language\">Ancient Greek<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E1%BC%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek\">\u1f31\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c1\u03af\u03b1<\/a><em>&nbsp;(<em>histor\u00eda<\/em>)<\/em>&nbsp;&#8216;inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation&#8217;)<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History#cite_note-JosephJanda-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;is the systematic study and documentation of human&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Past\">past<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;History is an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academic_discipline\">academic discipline<\/a>&nbsp;which uses a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Narrative\">narrative<\/a>&nbsp;to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History#cite_note-evans1-4\">[4]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Historians debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians debate the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historiography\">nature of history<\/a>&nbsp;as an end in itself, and its usefulness in giving perspective on the problems of the present.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History#cite_note-evans1-4\">[4]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History#cite_note-Tosh1-6\">[6]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History#cite_note-7\">[7]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History#cite_note-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History studies past events, experiences, and development that these experiences causes. One must instigate, ask questions, analyze and interpret the past in able to succeed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"971\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg.webp 800w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg-247x300.webp 247w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg-768x932.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Washington\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Washington\">George Washington <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History is not focused on one specific subject, it has a broad range of topics that span generations. It can include politics, economics, social and cultural events, global, military and more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There are various methods that are used to study history. These include primary and secondary sources, oral history, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historiography\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historiography\">historiography<\/a>.\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History is related to culture because it acts as the building blocks for society. The events of the past identify the heritage, beliefs, and identities that people are built on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History is an academic discipline concerned with the past. Wikipedia defines History as: History&nbsp;(derived from&nbsp;Ancient Greek&nbsp;\u1f31\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c1\u03af\u03b1&nbsp;(histor\u00eda)&nbsp;&#8216;inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation&#8217;)[1]&nbsp;is the systematic study and documentation of human&nbsp;past.[2][3]&nbsp;History is an&nbsp;academic discipline&nbsp;which uses a&nbsp;narrative&nbsp;to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect.[4][5]&nbsp;Historians debate which narrative best explains an event, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CEC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}