{"id":3413,"date":"2021-04-28T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/chapter\/historical-hack-what-is-a-historical-argument-2\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T22:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T22:16:39","slug":"historical-hack-what-is-a-historical-argument-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/chapter\/historical-hack-what-is-a-historical-argument-2\/","title":{"raw":"Historical Hack: Historical Arguments","rendered":"Historical Hack: Historical Arguments"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: evaluate historical arguments and thesis statements, explaining how they are constructed<\/h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_7578\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1057\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/04\/02220923\/Argument_map_arguments_for_and_against_the_production_of_shale_gas_for_EU_member_states.jpeg\"><img class=\"wp-image-7578\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/04\/02220923\/Argument_map_arguments_for_and_against_the_production_of_shale_gas_for_EU_member_states.jpeg\" alt=\"Argument map with a question in the center about whether EU Member states should produce shale gas. Both sides show arguments for and against.\" width=\"1057\" height=\"748\" \/><\/a> <strong>Figure 1<\/strong>. An argument map showing the supporting evidence as to why shale gas production could be both good or bad.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nIn this section, you'll learn about arguments\u2014not the kind you might have with a friend about the best fast food restaurant, but the kind you see in academic writing. Arguments are statements that take a stance. They form the basis of historiography, as historians use facts and sources to create a historical argument, to make sense of how or why things happened.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: evaluate historical arguments and thesis statements, explaining how they are constructed<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_7578\" style=\"width: 1067px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/04\/02220923\/Argument_map_arguments_for_and_against_the_production_of_shale_gas_for_EU_member_states.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7578\" class=\"wp-image-7578\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/04\/02220923\/Argument_map_arguments_for_and_against_the_production_of_shale_gas_for_EU_member_states.jpeg\" alt=\"Argument map with a question in the center about whether EU Member states should produce shale gas. Both sides show arguments for and against.\" width=\"1057\" height=\"748\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Figure 1<\/strong>. An argument map showing the supporting evidence as to why shale gas production could be both good or bad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this section, you&#8217;ll learn about arguments\u2014not the kind you might have with a friend about the best fast food restaurant, but the kind you see in academic writing. Arguments are statements that take a stance. They form the basis of historiography, as historians use facts and sources to create a historical argument, to make sense of how or why things happened.<\/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-3413\">\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: Historical Arguments. <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>Argument map. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Tamarhuiberts. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Wikimedia. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/75\/Argument_map_arguments_for_and_against_the_production_of_shale_gas_for_EU_member_states.jpg\">https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/75\/Argument_map_arguments_for_and_against_the_production_of_shale_gas_for_EU_member_states.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: Historical Arguments\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Argument map\",\"author\":\"Tamarhuiberts\",\"organization\":\"Wikimedia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/75\/Argument_map_arguments_for_and_against_the_production_of_shale_gas_for_EU_member_states.jpg\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"82631ac7-ce40-4a72-b804-3831aaf81355","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-3413","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":151,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3413","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\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7579,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3413\/revisions\/7579"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/151"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3413\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}