1. What the Biographical Method is.
a. The study of individual men and women as individuals.
b. The study of individual men and women as representatives of movements, periods, social groups.
c. The persons selected for study usually great or famous.
2. Reasons for Prevalence of the Method.
a. Offers units that are simple, concrete, interesting.
b. Satisfies ethical demands made upon historical instruction.
c. German experience a potent example.
d. Supported by “great man theory” of history.
1. “The history of what man has accomplished in this world is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here.”—Carlyle.