1 The Historian's Craft

hello class my name is dr. Jason Frawley and I am a professor of history at Tarrant County College Northwest campus and I'm going to be your instructor this semester this will be our lecture on the historians craft now in the state of Texas students are required to take two history courses it is mandated by state

law and so most students are going to take history 1301 and history 1302 and those are the two u.s. history courses but other students may substitute maybe a Texas history in there for one of those or there's a few other options that you can talk to your counselors about but this course is going to cover

u.s. history now I use this lecture in both my H ist 1301 and my H ist 1302 courses so again I'm making this lecture making this video I'm not entirely sure which course you are going to be taking so you may be in my 1301 or you may be in my 1302 but I want to start out by letting you

know that if history is not your favorite subject you are not alone here is a set of quotes from a variety of historical figures historical thinkers philosophers historians etc that take a negative view of history and I'm going to be honest with you sometimes history isn't my favorite subject you know I went through all the years to get my PhD

and it Mendeley sometimes I wake up and wish I had done something else but I always come back to the fact that I love history I love the stories and I hope by the end of the course you will have a greater affection for it however if history is not your favorite subject

again you are in good company here we have at the top history is bunk said Henry Ford a Ford Motor Company right it's a bunch of baloney none of us was there how could we really know what happened Napoleon Bonaparte history is a myth that men agreed to believe or as Toynbee says it's just one damn thing