Wikipedia:School and university projects/Open Source Culture/Wineburg

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Wineburg offers a succinct overview of “historical thinking” via his interest in behaviors surrounding meaning-making. He gives three examples of people who are engaged in interpreting history, and how they arrive at different outcomes. In this way, Wineburg’s study serves as a very brief introduction to hermeneutics and the problems of interpretation. He shows how people do not automatically do a good job of representing knowledge that is “distanced” by time and space.