In learning block 3-2, you learned about historical lenses and how they can influence the interpretation of historical events. Explanations for why things happened can vary if the researcher is looking at a topic from a political perspective, a social perspective, an economic perspective, or some other perspective. For this reason, historians rarely use only one lens to interpret a historical problem and instead employ multiple lenses to reach more robust conclusions and interpretations.
Whether or not you realized it, you employed one or more lenses in your first and second projects for this course. In your third project, you will evaluate your use of those lenses and consider alternative lenses as a way to demonstrate how historians arrive at different conclusions regarding historical topics, even when they use the same sources.
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