{"id":3408,"date":"2021-04-28T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/chapter\/historical-hack-thinking-like-a-historian-2\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T18:45:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:45:52","slug":"historical-hack-thinking-like-a-historian-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/chapter\/historical-hack-thinking-like-a-historian-2\/","title":{"raw":"Historical Hack: Thinking Like a Historian","rendered":"Historical Hack: Thinking Like a Historian"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do:\u00a0make connections to historical events by describing an event, its historical context, and its significance<\/h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_7549\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"502\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/04\/02184145\/1024px-MRT100CreativeCommonsRelease23June15m.jpeg\"><img class=\"wp-image-7549 \" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/04\/02184145\/1024px-MRT100CreativeCommonsRelease23June15m-763x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Photograph of the Ferranti MRT-100, a portable computer taking the form on an electronic clipboard\" width=\"502\" height=\"674\" \/><\/a> <strong>Figure 1<\/strong>. Some would say the Ferranti MRT is \"just\" a clipboard with a built-in calculator, but others claim it has historical significance as \"the world's first application-specific handheld computer.\" Historians do the work of examining events and evaluating, sometimes even shaping, the things that are remembered about the past.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nIn this section, you'll learn a mnemonic that can help you to focus on the main ideas in history and develop a big-picture understanding of the historical events you study.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do:\u00a0make connections to historical events by describing an event, its historical context, and its significance<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_7549\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/04\/02184145\/1024px-MRT100CreativeCommonsRelease23June15m.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7549\" class=\"wp-image-7549\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/04\/02184145\/1024px-MRT100CreativeCommonsRelease23June15m-763x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Photograph of the Ferranti MRT-100, a portable computer taking the form on an electronic clipboard\" width=\"502\" height=\"674\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Figure 1<\/strong>. Some would say the Ferranti MRT is &#8220;just&#8221; a clipboard with a built-in calculator, but others claim it has historical significance as &#8220;the world&#8217;s first application-specific handheld computer.&#8221; Historians do the work of examining events and evaluating, sometimes even shaping, the things that are remembered about the past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this section, you&#8217;ll learn a mnemonic that can help you to focus on the main ideas in history and develop a big-picture understanding of the historical events you study.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-3408\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Historical Hack: Thinking Like a Historian. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>MRT100. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: V Callaghan . <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Wikipedia. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historical_significance#\/media\/File:MRT100CreativeCommonsRelease23June15(m).jpg\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historical_significance#\/media\/File:MRT100CreativeCommonsRelease23June15(m).jpg<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":15,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Historical Hack: Thinking Like a Historian\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"MRT100\",\"author\":\"V Callaghan \",\"organization\":\"Wikipedia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historical_significance#\/media\/File:MRT100CreativeCommonsRelease23June15(m).jpg\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"af8b68d1-5ba7-4362-b791-51cd7512b8cd","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-3408","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1894,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7551,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3408\/revisions\/7551"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1894"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3408\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}