The Student Guide to Historical Thinking: Going Beyond Dates, Places, and Names to the Core of History (Thinker's Guide Library)

"Learning history as only a collection of dates and names prevents us from seeing the true value of the past. The Student Guide to Historical Thinking reveals the study of history as a mode of thinking with real current-day implications. It begins with a focus on important historical understandings and then presents strategies for fostering fair-minded historical thinking. Students learn to engage with the past in a way that promotes critical thinking about the present and future. As part of the Thinker's Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fair-minded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world."-- Provide by publisher "Learning history as only a collection of dates and names prevents us from seeing the true value of the past. This volume of the Thinker’s Guide Library reveals the study of history as a mode of thinking with real current-day implications. It begins with a focus on important historical understandings and then presents strategies for fostering fairminded historical thinking. Students learn to engage with the past in a way that promotes critical thinking about the present and future. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world." -- description from The Foundation for Critical Thinking website This guide focuses on history as a mode of thinking. It helps students come to understand that every historical perspective can be analyzed and assessed using the tools of critical thinking; it also targets the cultivation of historical reasoning abilities and traits in student thought. This guide illuminates history as a powerful system of understandings that can help students analyze the past in ways that help them live more reasonably in the present and future