Most Important Habits of Mind for APWH

• comprehend the interplay of change and continuity, and avoid assuming that either is somehow more natural, or more to be expected, than the other.

• understand the relationship between geography and history as a matrix of time and place, and as context for events.

• understand how things happen and how things change, how human intentions matter, but also how their consequences are shaped by the means of carrying them out, in a tangle of purpose and process.

• read widely and critically in order to recognize the difference between fact and conjecture, between evidence and assertion, and thereby to frame useful questions.

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