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  2. Historiography - Wikipedia

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    Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic by using particular sources, techniques of research ...

  3. Associated Press - Wikipedia

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    The Associated Press was formed in May 1846 by five daily newspapers in New York City to share the cost of transmitting news of the Mexican–American War. [7] The venture was organized by Moses Yale Beach (1800–68), second publisher of The Sun, joined by the New York Herald, the New York Courier and Enquirer, The Journal of Commerce, and the New York Evening Express.

  4. AP United States History - Wikipedia

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    The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide the same level of content and instruction that students would face in a freshman-level college survey class. It generally uses a college-level textbook as the foundation for the course and covers nine periods of U.S. history, spanning from the pre-Columbian era to the present day. The percentage ...

  5. AP United States Government and Politics - Wikipedia

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    The material in the course is composed of multiple subjects from the Constitutional roots of the United States to recent developments in civil rights and liberties. The AP United States Government examination covers roughly six subjects listed below in approximate percentage composition of the examination. [2]

  6. Historiography of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The New American History (1997) 397pp; 16 essays by experts on recent historiography; Foner, Eric, and Lisa McGirr, eds. American History Now (2011) 440pp; essays by 18 scholars on recent historiography excerpt and text search; Garraty, John A., and Eric Foner, eds. The Reader's Companion to American History (2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ...

  7. Historical method - Wikipedia

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    Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...

  8. Glossary of history - Wikipedia

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    Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...

  9. Professionalization and institutionalization of history

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    Professionalization of history is the process of acquiring the following characteristics of profession for occupation of historian: prolonged training in definable body of knowledge, a credential system, a code of ethics, a self-government; legislated access to particular labour market. [1]