History - one of the most difficult objects in respect of volume and specifics of information. Not to drown in a wave of dates, biographies and interpretations of different historical events, it is important to optimize and structure the studied information.
Instruction
1. To choose the main thing. Each historical event means conditions of formation of these events, the reason, the main characters, the extent, consequences and results. Coming home, the person takes off clothes and displays it on regiments of a case. And the historian sorts the facts by personal shelves. It is possible to do special ""analytical cards"", it is possible to work in the program of graphic design, uniting historical events hypertext references. This exercise besides develops the analytical skills necessary not only to the historian.
2. To learn dates and names. History well is given to visual learners who are capable distinctly, almost to a hallucination to feel an era which can coordinate number and the bright visual image fixing abstract figures in memory in the memory. For a training of this skill it is possible ""to scroll"" each date in mental cinema, visually immersing number in a certain picture. It is possible to compose mnemonic rules.
3. Emotional loop of an era. The historical event developed in a certain sociocultural environment. Moreover, sometimes the journalism and journalism (in fact fixing of history of today) were displaced in literature, theater or marginalized practicians. For example, a samizdat, hand-written media in the 17-19th centuries, taverns and taverns which became the place of exchange of information for ordinary and trade people. Politicians listened to a certain music, read certain books, wore certain clothes. And all this was the indirect reasons of any given event too. The atmosphere is very important for studying history.
4. To visit the museums, archives, to read copies of books or old newspapers. It is impossible to study history only according to textbooks or the adapted literature. It is necessary to address primary sources. For example, on the website www.oldgazette.ru it is possible to get acquainted with scans of pre-revolutionary newspapers.
5. For this reason it is important to write the essay, to communicate with adherents on the Internet or historical club. Reflections about the left eras allow to transfer passive knowledge to an active form, discussions will train memory and will force to refresh constantly knowledge, applying for additional information to authoritative hysterical women and primary sources.