Gatarin, Beverly Kay P.

12/06/2023

ARC227 – Reading in the Philippine history Mr. Villanueva.

ACTIVITY 1.

Historical resources encompasses both primary and secondary resources that

provides information about past event and topic. By providing original information, fake
news, frauds, hoaxes, and misinformation can be prevented. With the quote “History
repeats itself”, history can be used as reference in everything that will happen forward in
both the present and the future, while also helping with shaping the norm, the decisions,
and the responsibilities done by actions of a certain citizen, the society, the country, and
the world.

Historical primary resources:

Documents:

These are formal paperwork done and used

mostly for old cases in the court during trials
serving as reference for the decision making of
the judge, a convention between two countries
discussing matters that will eventually become a treaty in the past and will carry over
throughout time, lastly, hidden company history files being checked during a search
warrant.

Examples: Official record, letters, diaries, treaties, and constitution.

Personal Accounts:

From the word “Personal Accounts”, these are

words, sentences, phrases, given out or done
by a certain person mostly for “personal” use,
but can be a great contribution to society. It
can be about the summary of their life,
knowledge, or citations according to a
person’s interpretation, and factual or formal statements worded by a person in a certain
event or point in time.

Example: Memoirs, autobiography, or oral histories.

Artifacts:

As a primary source, artifacts are a

great way of verifying things especially
in the context of history, given the fact
that they’re not just texts and written
ink in papers, but solid objects that
envelop the cultural meaning behind
the lost times of that certain period.
They are basically concrete/tangible evidence that provides great information
about the past and the tradition that can be passed forward in a country’s society,
giving their identity as citizens of that nation.

Example: Clothing, tools, art, architecture from the period.

Printed materials:

Printed materials have always been a great source of

information, especially in the past, as anything that is
inked will be hard to erase. Even if not all the
information written in pamphlets, newspapers, and
books are true, anyone that prints materials permanently
is held accountable for their knowledge, information,
and judgement given throughout history.

Examples: newspapers, pamphlets and books that were published in that period.
 Official Publication:

These data can sometimes be manipulated for the

government’s agendas and greedy goals for their own
benefits in corruption, but the said official information
in the past can help with the current government in their
decision making and actions that may benefit the
country. Information is a powerful tool by knowing
what’s happening in the society, the country, and the
world, and through official publications, people will know that these cannot be taken
back and anything “official” that is published are done with power and authority, which
sometimes mean that they are permanent for good and can only be reversed by a higher
power.

Example: government report or census data.

Historical Secondary resources:

Books:

The fact that makes books a secondary

resource is that anyone can interpret or
record history differently. Even if it’s
sometimes factual, knowledge can be lost
through the number of revisions a book
will undergo, especially the discoveries
and debunks of scientific founding that rewrite and overlap with co-existing
theories in the past. There’s no doubt that from both the past and present, books
have evolved from being written manual to being typewritten. This just shows
how much books are important in learning knowledge and being the foundation
for the practical arts that our roles and responsibilities use in our daily jobs as
contributors towards society, the country, and the world.

Example: historical writings, textbooks, and scholarly monographs.

Biographies:
Every person has a story to tell, especially our great ancestors and founders of knowledge
in the past that brought forward the origin of anything that mankind has researched and
improved while advancing civilization today. By knowing their life, and what they’ve
been through to achieve these discoveries and what their goals were, it brings the
generation inspiration by continuing the works of these great men that developed and
research things maybe for their personal gain but brought forward an advancement to
both society and mankind.

Example: accounts of tackled lives based on an individual from a historical perspective.

Dissertations and Thesis:

If a hypothesis is a baseless account and an unproven

statement, they can evolve to theories that has supporting
evidence, until it becomes a compilation of findings
turning into a research paper or study, which will
continue to improve and strengthen the hypothesis of the
past, and the theory lives on through our continuous works on the certain research topic.
These dissertation works and thesis can be seen as just mere papers and just a repetition
of proving things in school, or a necessary requirement to graduate from a certain point or
level in academics, but the way things work in any concept, and how we utilize them,
originated as something being researched or studied in the past as well.

Example: papers contributing new insights.

Journal / Articles:
Journal or articles can be both used for fiction or factual events that happen in real life,
but you would want the latter for learning about history and the past behind things. Like
earlier, not all things written in journals or articles are true, but they’re one of the best
sources to know about something in the past or a part of a historical event.

Example: academic journal articles that talk about historical topics.

Documentaries:

Not all people like to read books, journal

articles, documents, research papers, basically
to read at all, but documentaries would make
things easier for the audience. In the case of
written works in paper, you can only use your
imagination to feel things out with the
historical context in a text, but in
documentaries you will be able to both see and
feel what it feels like to be part of the certain
period. It can be boring to watch a lengthy 2–3-
hour documentary, but it’s some are visual
learners, and this works out better for them than reading words in a book.

Example: films or TV programs providing historical analysis.